{"id":20122,"date":"2009-12-09T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2009-12-09T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:53:33","slug":"epa-greenhouse-gases-human-caus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/epa-greenhouse-gases-human-caus\/","title":{"rendered":"So what if we didn’t believe you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

I read somewhere on this site, “the future is a moving target.” Nothing could be more true than\u00a0with\u00a0current events in environmental policy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

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Monday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)\u00a0published\u00a0its policy\u00a0that greenhouse gases are a public health threat<\/strong><\/a>. This means the government, through the EPA,\u00a0can begin to act to curb the effects of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without long debate in Congress over whether or not climate change does exist or that greenhouse gases: methane, carbon dioxide,\u00a0 nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride — are dangerous to your health. Furthermore, yesterday\u00a0\u00a0Congress rejected calls to limit the EPA’s role<\/strong><\/a> in defining policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This is quite a turnaround from Congress six years ago, when the Bush Administration’s EPA\u00a0promoted business interests over that of public health, and Congress gave it a rubber stamp approval.<\/p>\n

While Monday’s EPA announcement\u00a0is long overdue, we’ve had eight years of denial close to\u00a0medieval thinking to get over. The same type of thinking led by a dangerous mix of science, Bible-based ideology and greed for profit denying\u00a0the danger of\u00a0greenhouse gases and their effect on the overall warming of the planet. In that denial, thinking and even knowledge was prohibited from expression.<\/p>\n

There are many who are still skeptical of the entire global warming premise — that is that modern-day humans, our cities, our factories, our food production,\u00a0created this climate change we are all experiencing. Scientific debate is going on right this second arguing for either side. And that, I believe, is healthy. Even as someone who suspects greenhouse gases are probably responsible for climate change, and caused by so many of us humans here on earth, I still side on the side of balance for this argument to take place.<\/p>\n

We have been handed one side or the other, sometimes, to mutual exclusion, that a full out argument is important, if not crucial if we’re to step on this orb together.\u00a0\u00a0Prior to this week’s greenhouse gas policy, its been\u00a0eight years\u00a0businesses shunted aside decades of EPA regulations\u00a0 to ignore clean air and water regulations for the sake of profit. A lot of damage has been done.<\/p>\n

A little sanity, hearing each other out instead of drowning each other out,\u00a0is in order even\u00a0while we draw lines in the sand. So what if we don’t believe each other at the moment? If there are logical arguments against the case of human-caused greenhouse gases, I want to hear them. But this time, let’s hear both sides instead of just one, and let the\u00a0premise based on reality and not ideology or wishful thinking, win. We don’t have much time. We don’t know how much or how little, so the sooner we get smart, the better.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan
\n<\/strong>San Francisco<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: I read somewhere on this site, “the future is a moving target.” Nothing could be more true than\u00a0with\u00a0current events in environmental policy in Washington, D.C. Monday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)\u00a0published\u00a0its policy\u00a0that greenhouse gases are a public health threat. This means the government, through the EPA,\u00a0can begin to act to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,1788,1617,52,1054,1620],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}