Six Degrees..

[Carol]

So maybe I'm supposed to be sucked into this Carbon Footprint thing. I keep being drawn to this information! Last night I watched Six Degrees Could Change the World on the National Geographic Channel. Six DegreesJesus - we only have ten years. I know..... they've been telling us about it forever (Thom and co.). Good thing I'm biking to the post office now!I definitely think that the world will change because we have to. I do think that those of us in the West need to overcompensate for the developing countries (like China) who are too busy growing to care. And also that the US has a lot of changing to do and a great responsibility to be a leader in this effort.As long as idiots like Rush Limbaugh and all the other right-wing talk-show hosts keep talking out their asses and the pick-up-truck-driving-rebel-flag-flying-hicks keep buying it.. we need guys like Pickens to get the concept across the TV -- which is the only thing they listen to.Sorry, can you tell I've seen a few of those? -- After my daughter's prom "grand march" this year... several of the students got into their pick-up trucks in a parade of sorts.. flying their HUGE rebel flags.. as they left the school to go to prom. Though it's their right to do what they wish, and I would not impose a restriction on that right.. it does reflect the mentality of those who live around here and it's sad that they've taught their children to glorify a tradition that is not even theirs (um.. we're in Rural New York not Texas or Georgia..) for the sake of expressing their hatred of diversity -- or their ignorance at what traditions they are glorifying. To me it says: "Look at me, I'm an ignorant hick!"Sorry off on a tangent there... Hopefully American's will look past the fear mongering going on with the coming election and we can move to a new future with a democratic white house.