There are a few links that point out Utah's coal addiction rising to 90% of it electrical productions being the result of using coal to power the state. That burning this fossil fuel is changing the weather climate we have and the upcoming predictions look bleak etc. Well there is much debunking going on out there concerning the numbers and the fact there isn't enough proof that doing this will actually change the weather at all.
http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/house-resolution-passed-in-utah-climate-change-a-conspiracy/
I have no vested feelings on that matter. If Mother Earth itself finally sees us as the virus and strikes us out of existence tomorrow I accept the consequences. We really didn't have her well being in mind when we "humans" discovered the damage we were doing and still didn't try our best to change our ways due to the all mighty dollar outranking our thinking. No, save a buck but damn our existence anyhow mentality rightfully sentenced ourselves to that 'supposed' fate. I'm no different than my neighbor. I didn't go after legislation and I didn’t try to change and develop protocols for researching a different way to heat and cool ourselves. So I deserve the same fate as my neighbor. If I can't get off my ass and do something to change this world for the better than if Mother Nature wants to kick my sorry ass off the planet then so be it.
That is not what I wanted to point out though. What I really wanted to bring to light is even if the teeter totter goes this way or that way in damaging weather and climate that is not what should be moving folks in the direction of getting away from fossil fuel power plants. Look at what comes out of those exhaust stacks. By products, chemicals, residues, anything that can be said that should not be inside your body. That should be the motivation for finding a different safe power source. The number, if it is accurate, is ninety percent for the state of Utah that consume coal fuel. THAT is alarming as all get out and needs to be examined seriously along with every other state that can say that. We are technically advanced as a country and I demand we step aside from "Blackwater" monies being wasted and put that kind of money where our mouth is in making another energy source that is safe happen. Not 'clean coal'. Coal no making how you shine it won't be clean get over that and move on. There is still a toxic remainder no matter how you tinker with it and that is just silly. By all means keep the plants cut mining way the hell down and save them as a means for emergency situations only. But 90 percent dependency is never safe and the effect on the air we breathe is nothing short of a death sentence. Of course it isn't immediate it is long term and let's get past the eight hundred pound gorilla on the coffee table and call it like it is long term late life whatever cancer. The stuff stays in the body twiddles its way into cell mutation later in life. You can't tell me breathing that stuff is not toxic and they've proven scientifically that what comes out that stack your body can't get rid of by means of an evacuation or immune system. You can’t urinate or defecate it all out and the immune system is not going to take care of it. So why continue to use a means to power this nation that isn't safe when we have other means if not "great leads" on alternative means to do this. Oh that, yes, the all mighty dollar. We did create our own golden calf and it is the dollar. We pray for (to) it, we adore it, we kill for it. We strike our enemies down in the name of it why not expose it for it is. The blasphemeric dollar.
Why let that get into the way of preserving our race and its future generations. We obviously haven't learned a thing from the past look at our present economy. Part of the Roman Empire's downfall was due to economic greed. They adorned their money so much they would stretch themselves how far to get more of it. They let it drive their decisions and let their own citizens starve in the streets to get more of it. The Romans poisoned themselves with lead piping etc. So here we are on the brink of much of the same and we have all become okay with smoke stacks in Utah pluming with toxicity floating its way east and settling its particles in my lungs here in Ohio. What a country. Stop thinking with the wallets and start thinking towards how to protect those that live inside this country and hey why stop there? Do you really think Canada appreciates us dumping our high altitude ash over into their neck of the woods as well? Eh?
Do the right thing. Move away from stuff that catches afire and start moving toward permanently recycling energy that reproduces itself. Self sustaining power research is not a bad thing as long as it has no toxic end result to any life. There has to be a way to make that kind of technology work for us and imagine if used in a non profiteering way how it could make the human race advance itself to a higher consciousness that helps Mother Nature. We would be in a position to do so many other things in life we could not fathom the extent of our abilities. My advice, leave the golden calf we've created behind and look towards expanding our race to the highest level possible. Believe me the rest of the globe will follow a great role model.
