This is necessary. This is informative. This is real.
Ever notice that the "skeptics" on climate change often have links to the very entities that help produce a rapidly warming planet? Oil, agriculture, energy. Them damn politicians are bought and sold, and while the climate changes, the bullshit rhetoric and deep denial does not. Ah well, I guess we need complete flippin' ignoramus' in the world...so that one can learn how to better communicate! Grist linked me into USA Today's editorial on just how dang stubborn these deniers really are (it's a short read). Head meet sand...oh, you've met?
And this is even more real:
Saving Blair Mountain from Jay Mallin on Vimeo.
Blair Mountain was the site of a huge, if not the largest, civil uprising after the Civil War (wiki wiki!). We're talking pissed off miners with weapons that skirmish with coal company thugs and eventually the US Army, who actually flew Martin MB-1 planes over multiple towns and dropped left-over bombs from WWI. Are you listening? Shooting and bombing people (the people working to make those bastards rich) who want fair wages and to get out of the trap that was scrip set up by the company store. Our government, "for the people," was busy kissing coal's ass a long time ago...and it hasn't changed much. But the March on Blair Mountain could be the little push that snow ball needed....let it hit you in the face and make you think, act, feel.
On the gardening front, I've come across a handy website explaining just what may be in that compost you just bought at Lowes. Some of it is harmless and some of it can be a bit more dangerous. Speaking of big box stores like Lowes, if you are going to buy plants there perhaps you would like to buy organically grown veggies, herbs, and flowers from yours truly. The Inter-Mountain just ran a nice article on what's happening around the county (that's me with the Green Rivers hat and the crappy display...help wanted). Don't worry. Local is cool again.
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