tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post483839802956887520..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Plastic HabitatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11265256928648877142011-07-23T07:02:57.831-07:002011-07-23T07:02:57.831-07:00Tom,
thanks for the link to "a new contine...Tom, <br /><br />thanks for the link to "a new continent" --- "unreal city" --- (all too real). . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86514844990796394102011-07-23T03:25:00.396-07:002011-07-23T03:25:00.396-07:00And talking of lost paradises...And talking of <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/holderlin-der-neckar-by-waters-of.html" rel="nofollow">lost paradises</a>...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76673823378264279882011-07-22T14:16:02.896-07:002011-07-22T14:16:02.896-07:00To feel one's own life, interdependent, whole,...To feel one's own life, interdependent, whole, open in the moment is to feel the life around us, with us. Money seems a kind of acceptable expression of killing rage for not being a god after all. What other reason could there be for it to be our god, our stand in? Make any sense? <br /><br />Painful and necessary to look at what one does and its consequences. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67087509128100948112011-07-22T12:46:45.991-07:002011-07-22T12:46:45.991-07:00dismaying, embarrassing ...
difficult to accept ...dismaying, embarrassing ... <br /><br />difficult to accept destroying paradise at every stepL'Enfant de la Haute Merhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122358316297267842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53161904592820239432011-07-22T09:16:19.010-07:002011-07-22T09:16:19.010-07:00In their caption to the gruesome bottom photo here...In their caption to the gruesome bottom photo <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/albatross.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, Forest and Kim Starr cite the speculation that the Laysan Albatross are attracted to plastic trash because it comes with a thin slimy layer of marine life as coating, giving it the appearance of something delicious.<br /><br />(That works on us too.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40687024342200782342011-07-22T07:43:54.391-07:002011-07-22T07:43:54.391-07:00No, not us, never, we're innocent, we were mer...No, not us, never, we're innocent, we were merely ingenues... when seventy years ago the chemical corporations were boasting about having <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fdAsVFXbwvk/Su8JheOMZ-I/AAAAAAAAAyA/PHdXHvviJnU/s1600-h/synthetica.jpg" rel="nofollow">created a new continent</a>.<br /><br />It's one of those "before and after" graphics...<br /><br />Eventually however in the endless recycling of history (time moving backward even as it moves forward)<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Stradano_Inferno%2C_Map_of_Whole_Hell.jpg" rel="nofollow">after</a> would appear, picture [becoming]<br />therefore “necessary”<br /><br />-- ?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9647596990163730342011-07-22T07:19:55.263-07:002011-07-22T07:19:55.263-07:00Tom,
Trouble in paradise -- good thing we don'...Tom,<br /><br />Trouble in paradise -- good thing we don't do that around here. . . . <br /><br />7.22<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, song sparrow calling sweet sweet<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> after would appear, picture<br /> therefore “necessary”<br /><br /> sensual aspect of sound, as<br /> resonance, of what is<br /><br />grey white of fog against top of ridge,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67597242710708899462011-07-22T07:16:06.800-07:002011-07-22T07:16:06.800-07:00Julia,
Of course it's always easier to know b...Julia,<br /><br />Of course it's always easier to know better later. <br /><br />But the scientific genius that released these chemical compounds upon the world, advertised as instruments to a better life, turned out to be the genie that could not be put back into the bottle. And the bottle was plastic, the bottle cap was plastic, and the original of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Pandora_opening_her_box_by_James_Gillray.jpg" rel="nofollow">Pandora's Box</a> was probably a prophecy of Synthetics.<br /><br />What could be done? Recycle that old plastic trash. But then you just have... more plastic.<br /><br />Better still: reduce the use of plastic. Stop buying it. The less plastic is used, the less plastic will be manufactured and sold. It was always about business anyway.<br /><br />The local ecology center here offers some <a href="http://www.ecologycenter.org/ptf/misconceptions.html" rel="nofollow">Strategies to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Plastics</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63913835843468610872011-07-22T05:59:42.577-07:002011-07-22T05:59:42.577-07:00These last plastic / evil green posts are heartbre...These last plastic / evil green posts are heartbreaking, Tom. Necessary but so hardly digestible... What can we do? The right answer and the right way of living seams so very difficult.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.com