[MD] Clouds

[Dan Glover]

>From: pholden at davtv.com
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] Clouds
>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:27:23 -0500
>
>Quoting Dan Glover <daneglover at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Dear Platt
> >
> > "Phaedrus looked at the glass window across the hotel room and at the
> > darkness beyond it. The question that seemed to grow in his mind every 
>time
> > he came back to New York was: Is this city going to survive or isn't it?
> > It's always had social problems, and it's always survived them, and 
>somehow
> > it's always been strengthened by them, and maybe that will happen again. 
>But
> > this time the odds didn't look bright. He remembered the title Rudyard
> > Kipling had used for Calcutta back in Victorian times, "The City of 
>Dreadful
> > Night." That's what this city was becoming." (LILA)
> >
> > I guess Robert Pirsig is just whimpering here.
>
>Has Robert been to New York city lately? It's a clean, thriving, beautiful 
>city
>since Giuliani cleaned it up and routed the dreadful forces of night.

[Dan]
Once upon a time there was a city called New Orleans. Remember? Mark my 
words. In another couple decades New York will go the same way.

>
> > Tell me... YOUR generation is
> > responsible for the world heating up...
>
>How come the world was hotter during the Middle Ages?

[Dan]
Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

>
> > I hope you feel comfortable soaking
> > up the good and the beautiful while your decendents are paying for your
> > excesses for the next thousand years.
>
>What "excesses" do you have in mind?

[Dan]
The carbon footprint you leave. Do you know how big it is? It is huge.

>
> > If your grandhildren ask you why, do
> > you have an answer for them? Or are you just going to tell them to turn 
>up
> > the air conditioning, get a little gumption, and quit whining?
>
>I certainly would tell them to quit whining and get busy. I would tell them 
>if
>they don't like the way things are in their lives, change them. Robert 
>Pirsig
>certainly did, and you did too by compiling, editing and publishing "Lila's
>Child." This business of sitting around on a pity pot and complaining
>about how "ain't it awful" doesn't sound like the Dan Glover I thought I
>knew. I hope and pray that your are simply undergoing a temporary down 
>period.

[Dan]
Thank you Platt. I don't mean to get on my high horse and I am not 
complaining. WAKE UP THOUGH! We are in real trouble. Look around you. Don't 
believe the lies our leaders continue to tell us. The ice caps are melting 
and the sea level will rise not a few inches or even a few feet but a few 
METERS. All our coastal cities will be swamped. All around the world! Storms 
will become greatly increased. Katrina is but a foreshadow of what's to 
come. Droughts and disease will be rampant. Wildfires will flourish. Farm 
land will dry up and blow away.

Is this the world you want to bequeath to your grandchildren and great 
grandchildren? It's nearly too late but we still have a chance if we act 
NOW. Simple things we do now will make a tremendous difference in the 
future. But if we hide our heads in the sand and pretend everything is okay 
there's going to be hell to pay.

Anyway, thanks for listening.

Dan