tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7603420700198838346..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Indonesia Is On Fire: A dismal SituationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74745985506845095602015-10-29T06:08:12.300-07:002015-10-29T06:08:12.300-07:00Over-population.
Environmental degradation.
No o...Over-population.<br /><br />Environmental degradation.<br /><br />No one in the public media talks about these things. <br /><br />They get worse and worse.<br /><br />Oh, let's build the tunnels and suck the Sacramento River dry. And while we're at it, drain the Central Valley Aquifer too. Good show.<br /><br />Let's build a bullet-train to LA. Good show.<br /><br />Let's build more high rise condos in SF. Good show. <br /><br />So, how about prayer? That's the trick. Or hand-wringing. <br /><br />Consciousness of death. <br /><br />Witness.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68038116071915782522015-10-25T18:08:07.892-07:002015-10-25T18:08:07.892-07:00Many thanks, Terry and Duncan, fellow breathers in...Many thanks, Terry and Duncan, fellow breathers in a suffocating world.<br /><br />Looking at pictures and videos from Indonesia in working up this post it was at times necessary to remind oneself these were not images from a bad hollywood disaster movie.<br /><br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xz4LJc1vdk" rel="nofollow">How Serious Is the Haze Problem in Indonesia...?</a><br /><br />And here I'd thought the air in the 880 corridor was bad.<br /><br />Singapore has been having Pollutants Standards Index, or PSI, readings over 300... Just recently they scored a cool 341... but of course that's as nothing next to the numbers from the source, Indonesia, where they're getting readings up to 2000 PSI (the point where the recording instruments choke to death).<br /><br />As anybody in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur can testify, even distance from wholesale environmental desecration is not protection from the devastation.<br /><br />Watching the Mexican hurricane on live streams here was a[nother] grim and redundant instruction in the rapidly arriving future of a crumbling civilization. Many a gringo resort vacation package to Puerto Vallarta aborted, many a group bargain flight cancelled.<br /><br />The flood of traffic out front never ebbed all the while, for all the world as though there were no perceived connection between carbon emission and the biophysical future of Earth.<br /><br />This from the Center for International Forestry Research, on Wednesday last:<br /><br />"The fires raging across Indonesia, and the hazardous smoke they create, are causing even greater damage to the environment, wildlife and communities than first imagined. While much of the recent focus has been on Sumatra—and the spillover into Singapore and Malaysia—the province of Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, faces a greater crisis.<br /><br />"Once called the 'lungs of the world', the rainforests and peatlands of Borneo are struggling to breathe, as they spew vast quantities of smoke into the air, amid some of the worst fires in almost 20 years. Despite major efforts to douse the flames, in this dry El Niño year, there is no telling when the fires will subside and the air will clear."<br /><br />And this from an interested scientific observer at the scene in Kalimantan, Martin Wooster, Professor of Earth Observation Science at King’s College London:<br /><br />“There is a complete envelopment of smoke all over the place.<br /><br />“And if you’re here without a mask, you are breathing much of that smoke into your lungs, which is obviously, I would say, extremely hazardous for your health.<br /><br />“I’ve visited quite a few sites of biomass burning during my 10 years or so of research in the area. And I can certainly say this is the worst situation I’ve ever encountered for biomass burning or any form of combustion in a natural environment.<br /><br />“Here you’ve got the actual soils that are burning alongside the vegetation on top, which is often seen in ferns and things that are quite flammable, not the original forest.”TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47158350620224163882015-10-25T12:25:05.959-07:002015-10-25T12:25:05.959-07:00"Watch the whole world go up in flames"...."Watch the whole world go up in flames".<br /><br />That's about it, that darkness visible; our own end staring us in the face.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34482756953799609052015-10-25T08:39:31.519-07:002015-10-25T08:39:31.519-07:00Dismal, indeed. And heart-breaking.Dismal, indeed. And heart-breaking.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62467509568574719092015-10-24T23:19:19.735-07:002015-10-24T23:19:19.735-07:00After Hours (1995) feat. Peggy Lee: Is that all th...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhLjhxx5U0" rel="nofollow">After Hours (1995) feat. Peggy Lee: Is that all there is?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M" rel="nofollow">Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? (Leiber & Stoller), live, 1969</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com