Travel Thoughts
May. 9th, 2004 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynWas in a bookstore at the Atlanta airport where they had the "Left Behind" series on the non-fiction shelves. Ummm...?
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Picked up the "Future of the Earth" edition of US News and World Report. Kind of interesting to watch social awareness of certain issues spread. I know environmentalism had its hayday in the 70s, but people are finally realizing that all the problems haven't been solved and, in most cases, it's the easy problems that we've solved. Stop emitting soot, lead etc. and within a year the air pollution clears up, but the pollution was washed from the sky to the earth which still causes problems. Plus, the same timeline does not work with carbon. I f we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, global warming would still continue for about a century. Carbon sticks around for a long, long time. The awareness is getting to the point that people like Bush look like idiots for trying to ignore it (not that the man needs any more evidence that he's an idiot). I mean, it's even registered on Hollywood's radar, though how a movie will attempt to explain scientific concepts like the shutdown of the oceanic thermohaline conveyor belt is a little frightening to ponder
On a "it's all about me" note, one of my Harvard profs was quoted and one of the articles article noted that Massachusetts had the coldest January in recorded history this winter. Testify!
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On the trip I started and finished Life of Pi. Amazingly good book and I recommend it to everybody.
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One of the things I enjoyed the most about leaving CO was escaping the FTC effect. It seems that everywhere I go in Ft. Collins, I see at least one person I know or, if I meet somebody new, they'll have some random connection to somebody I know. My dad joked that I needed to be in a place where there are an average six degrees of separation not 2.5. So, come up the escalator to the baggage claim at DIA and there's an old friend's ex-boyfriend waiting to pick somebody up. AAHHHHHHH!
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Non-travel related, but this is my first time back at the computer and it's kind of related to the environmental stuff:
The Netherlands has some cool, forward thinking.
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Picked up the "Future of the Earth" edition of US News and World Report. Kind of interesting to watch social awareness of certain issues spread. I know environmentalism had its hayday in the 70s, but people are finally realizing that all the problems haven't been solved and, in most cases, it's the easy problems that we've solved. Stop emitting soot, lead etc. and within a year the air pollution clears up, but the pollution was washed from the sky to the earth which still causes problems. Plus, the same timeline does not work with carbon. I f we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, global warming would still continue for about a century. Carbon sticks around for a long, long time. The awareness is getting to the point that people like Bush look like idiots for trying to ignore it (not that the man needs any more evidence that he's an idiot). I mean, it's even registered on Hollywood's radar, though how a movie will attempt to explain scientific concepts like the shutdown of the oceanic thermohaline conveyor belt is a little frightening to ponder
On a "it's all about me" note, one of my Harvard profs was quoted and one of the articles article noted that Massachusetts had the coldest January in recorded history this winter. Testify!
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On the trip I started and finished Life of Pi. Amazingly good book and I recommend it to everybody.
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One of the things I enjoyed the most about leaving CO was escaping the FTC effect. It seems that everywhere I go in Ft. Collins, I see at least one person I know or, if I meet somebody new, they'll have some random connection to somebody I know. My dad joked that I needed to be in a place where there are an average six degrees of separation not 2.5. So, come up the escalator to the baggage claim at DIA and there's an old friend's ex-boyfriend waiting to pick somebody up. AAHHHHHHH!
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Non-travel related, but this is my first time back at the computer and it's kind of related to the environmental stuff:
The Netherlands has some cool, forward thinking.