It's summer in the city for a couple of more days as the east experiences a prelude to the coming months (and maybe years). 90s yesterday, today and tomorrow then a bit of a cool down to normality (60s). I'll still do my bus and walk routine this morning (it's only in the mid-60s right now) but may not by this afternoon. I think the decision to walk or not will depend on the humidity. That was low yesterday (a "dry heat"), which isn't so bad from a tolerability standpoint. Although Kooper doesn't seem to be taking to the heat - dry or moist.
Speaking of the heat, the debate in Congress over the climate change legislation is heating up. In addition to capping carbon and other greenhouse gases, maybe someone should cap political rhetoric. It tends to add to the heat of the moment and doesn't lend much to solutions in the end.
I'm thinking all of this is fairly fruitless anyway. The real cap that either humans need to impose on ourselves (or wait to have nature impose) is the cap on the number of people. At over six billion the earth is weighted down. Can't handle the load of that many people and that much stuff that comes along with us. The excess people and our excess baggage. Airlines place a human and baggage capacity on their flights for good reason - the plane won't fly very well above a certain capacity. Neither will the earth as we know it.
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.