Overwhelmed

Someone said the current drought in Arizona is similar to one that ended the Anasazi culture.  People can obliterate the natural environment that sustains them.  Get your little computer thing out and put an app on it called Flight Tracker 24.  The app will show  you every plane in the sky over the United States and a lot of the world.  Until you zoom out the entire country is covered with planes.  Usually there are 6,000 jets in the air at any given time.  Think about the amount of fuel being spewed into the atmosphere. 

Kadizzle spent a major portion of his life in the coal industry.  Few people realize the rate of coal consumption in this country.  Until you see coal pouring off a conveyor belt into a power plant volume is hard to comprehend.  Our mine produced 23,000 tons a day.  The power plant burnt that much.  The plant we supplied was just one of thousands in our country.  A coal train leaves the Powder River Basin about once every 15 minutes.  Each train has one hundred, one hundred ton cars.  So that is ten thousand tons.  Think of  your bedroom.  One train car of coal would fill your bedroom with coal.  That is a lot of carbon.  Most of us think electricity just magically happens. It does not.  The carbon dumped into the air every day took millions of years to be sequestered by turning into coal.  What took five hundred years to put in the ground we will take out in one hundred years. 

This is just the tip of the problem.  If you went up and looked down from a satellite you would see a line of oil tankers coming from the middle east to the United States.  lt would be one long line bringing us fuel to burn in our cars.  At any given moment at least 20 million cars are running. Then there are the trucks, trains, buses, and who knows what.  Can you dump all this crap into the air and really expect nothing to happen? 

On the other side of the game are the plants trying to suck up the carbon we a spewing.  The problem is we are wiping out the plant kingdom at an alarming rate.  The jungle is being destroyed, the oceans are being polluted, and the system that cleans the air we pollute is being blasted.

The entire mess reminds Kadizzle of a story he was told two nights ago.  A fellow trail crew member told of a man he had as a friend.  The man's wife disappeared.  The wife was a hoarder and had a separate house where she did her hoarding.   Searching for the woman cadaver dogs were used. They checked the hoarding house, but did not find her.  The husband decided to clean out the hoarding house and found her body buried under the stuff she accumulated.  There is a lesson in this.  We will be buried under the stuff we accumulate that we don't  need.