Geo-engineering
Dear Editor,
Re: Geo-engineering to save planet
Just read your piece about geo-engineering. I think it is an excellent argument, and I especially appreciate your closing paragraph. I had been thinking that I was alone in the belief that at the core of the disorder afflicting most liberals is an obsessive compulsion to control. Perhaps I am not as uniquely perceptive as my own delusions would have me believe.
It has become a circus, this climate-change, political phenomenon, and the stilt-legged clowns are wearing brighter and more garish colors all the time.
Growing up in Cameron, Louisiana, I witnessed a well blow-out only a mile north of our home, which covered our town with a brown, greasy coating (in fact, I walked to school in that cloud of oily mist for a few days before Red Adair’s outfit fixed the problem.) But I also saw, while participating in a bird-count and parked mere yards from an old drilling site, my first Peregrine falcon. When the raptor appeared, the sky suddenly filled with many thousands of waterfowl and wading birds taking panicked flight. It was a stunning sight.
This harmonious coexistence of oil-related activity and sensitive ecosystems seems ironic only because we have all been told that the oil industry destroys nature. It simply isnt so, but nobody is trying to make the case that industry and wildlife can coexist, aside from a sporadic PR effort on the part of big-oil.
Given our obvious need to produce more of our own energy, what can be done to disabuse the public of this misperception? Assuming that you, too, think this an important point, do you have any ideas? Please at least let me know that you received and read this letter. I am sometimes left feeling that this issue, despite its unarguable importance in these times, interests none but me.
Regards,
Lawrence Tanner
