What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites

What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites

Perhaps I shoudn’t ask the question, “What’s a mother to do?” since I’m a father not a mother. However, a male colleague used to ask that question not as a query but as an expression of frustration as to what anyone can do in response to the conditions and state of the world today.

The short answer is that a mother, or father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, can’t do very much if anything but it’s nevertheless fulfilling to speculate on what we should do under certain sets of circumstances.

Would that we average joes and josies could do things, change things, or reverse things that, in our inexpert and humble opinions, called for doing, changing, or reversing based on a long-lost American skill and capacity, the application of common sense.

“Mother’s Commonsensical Solutions” will no doubt be attacked as everything from nonsensical and simplistic to naive and stupid but asi es la vida, tough apples. Readers are invited to offer better ideas.

Mother’s Problem Number One: Dealing With International Green Hypocrites

. “China, India, Indonesia, Brazil Can’t Estimate Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions–Latest Figures Are from 1994:” http://tiny.cc/81heh

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Words of Truth

Words of Truth

They may not go down in history as the equivalent of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” or JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you . . .” but a few recent public statements are notable if not as quotable.

Environmental activist and actor Harrison Ford came out with a good two-liner this past week in response to a question about his ownership of 7 aircraft and whether that fact was a contradiction of his green credentials.

Without batting an eye, he quipped that if any conservationists criticize him for his planes, “They’re quite right. I’ll start walking everywhere when they start walking everywhere.”

While conceding that general aviation does contribute to air pollution, he later added the obvious about his seven planes, “I only fly one of them at a time:” http://tiny.cc/c8vj7

Ford seems to be a rara avis, a Hollywood green with a sense of humor who can give as well as take. Calista should be very proud of him.

Far less entertaining is the revelation by retired Army chaplain Arthur Schultz . . .
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