RAGING EAGLE, RAGING CLIMATE CHANGE, intense spring snowmelt,
Eagle Caps [ click photo for next . . . ]
RAGING EAGLE, RAGING CLIMATE CHANGE, intense spring snowmelt,
Eagle Caps [ click photo for next . . . ]
RAGING EAGLE / RAGING CLIMATE CHANGE.....The great
anthropologist/philosopher, Gregory Bateson, once said that
it is a very bad idea to trust political leaders who have no
sense of Earth. I agree. The photograph above was made around
Summer Solstice last year (2011). The river pictured here—I
wish I could somehow give you an idea of the incredibly
intensely horrifying SOUND—was ready to explode out of its
course-way. This is wild country, fed by 1500 meters above
of a 2 meter on average deep snow pack. The newfoundland of
the Climate Crisis is the variable—now chaotic and dangerously
unpredictable—WHEN AND HOW QUICKLY this snow will melt. The
worst case scenario is this: sudden warming with sudden heavy
rain from top to bottom (in altitude) of the range. That means
that tons and tons of water has suddenly no place to go. This
happened in June of 2010, with terrible washouts and flooding.
But that storm was just a prelude, just a warning. Luckily, it
stopped as quickly as it started. Had it continued another 48
hours, well, I shudder to think of the havoc that would have
resulted. At the time I made this image, I had all this in
mind, and was looking with a heavy pack on my back for a good
campsite for the evening. With such unpredictable variables,
I wouldn't even consider being anywhere near the flood plain
of this river. One bad throw of the Climate Dice, as Dr. James
Hanson calls them, and well, it would be over. Bateson was right.
Don't trust leaders without a sense of Earth. Full stop.
[See more below, with the latest addition of another PBS
documentary that does, with all due respect, little or nothing
to awaken the sense of urgency any reasonable human being would
feel if they were with me, right here, also doing what we have
always done as a species, looking for a safe place for
the night.]
On the road in the Pacific Northwest . . .
ID CARD
Show me the form,
where I can check off proudly:--
my religion is Nature,
and my country,
the Earth.
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
DEFINED: Conclusionary rhetoric? "Arguing" BACKWARDS
from a fixed, rigid, fundamentalist agendaIn stark contrast, the essence, or spirit, of Science—this
is much more than mere method, but rather a wholly
different way of being, in this view—is not so much
proof, but rather the willingness to drop a theory or
idea if evidence suggests that it is contradicted by
fact.It is this scientific spirit that underlies both dialogue
and the necessarily enlightened self-governance
of democracy.[Note: That is why the motto, IN GOD WE TRUST,
always controversial, and not adapted till 1957, is
thoroughly anti-democratic, and mere artifact of the
above-mentioned "fixed, rigid, fundamentalist agenda."
It is enough of a contradiction to take down an entire
Republic, because, dialogue and reasoned debate
necessarily will degenerate into merely 'throwing
stones at one another.']For textbook examples of what I'm calling Conclusionary
Rhetoric, try watching this new PBS doc, Climate of Doubt http://bit.ly/TIgBlb Conclusionary rhetoric? "Arguing"
BACKWARDS from a fundamentalist agenda
#ClimateChange
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