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London, ON, March 2008 [Click to embiggen]
This is the year of global warming, of carbon footprints, of realizing that we're on the slippery slope toward environmental oblivion unless we start making some very hard, very drastic and very expensive choices.
I recall when Earth Day was huge around 1989-90. It was a big fad to get involved, clean up a park somewhere on a Sunday morning with other like-minded do-gooders while local TV news crews shot b-roll footage of the volunteers in their snappy new t-shirts. Then it just vanished, another victim of pop culture burnout.
I hope we've learned our lesson in the intervening years. Doubtful, but you never know.
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About last week's water bottle in a desert photo: I guess I can't get away from the eco-green theme. This week's honorable menschens are:
- Tiel Aisha Ansari: It's perfectly clear
- Robin: Abandonment issues
- Awareness: Plastic apathy
- Judy: North American oasis
- Naomi: In The Shadow Of My Smile, I Drink
- MissMeliss: Deserter
- Omykiss: Waste water
- Sister AE: Water, water everywhere! Now where'd I leave my drink?
Smoking kills...the earth.
ReplyDeleteCarmi, I think you should read Strange Pilgrims by Marquez. That too is a collection of stories. And it is much better than the one I have reviewed now.
ReplyDeleteWhere there's smoke, there's mire.
ReplyDelete(Thanks for the menschen, Carmi...you know I love my array of bride's maid dresses!) :)
We all need to blow off steam now and then!
ReplyDeleteSmokestack lightning.
ReplyDeleteTerri
The genie, weary of granting wishes, tried, in vain, to get back in the bottle.
ReplyDeleteSteamed.
ReplyDelete(Apparently my caption creation is feeling terse lately.)
Carmi: this fills me with such nostalgia I can't think. I was a child in industrial Lancashire in the thirties and smoke coming out of the chimneys meant strikes were over and there would be bread - even cake -on the table and a time to rejoice.
ReplyDelete'There's th'half past five whistle!'
Will that do? Popped in from Michele's - Happy Holiday Week-end.
Hi, Carmi! Here's mine: "[Cough, cough, cough]"
ReplyDeleteThe earth sends out smoke signals for HELP !
ReplyDeleteMichele sent me to visit this morning :)
i know you are aware that there is a growing list of sources that think that temperature change may be related to something beyond our small impact on the planet, such as the amount of radiation the sun puts out.
ReplyDeletedon't buy what is in print just because it is in print, there are HUGE market forces at play here.
i am all against pollution, having survived the late 60's in the souther calif "smog bowl"
but lets stay as objective as possible.
I remember when Earth Day was big too, and Adopt a Highway. And isn't (wasn't) there one day where everyone was supposed to plant a tree?
ReplyDeleteMy caption: Pipe Dreams
Belching Progress
ReplyDeleteA Plume of Fumes
Scent-sensationally Stacked.
Crime of the Century.
It huffed and it puffed... and it blew the earth down...
ReplyDeleteI remember Earth Day being a big to-do... it seems like all things in the past seemed like they were a bigger deal. Everything nowadays is overdone.
Bye bye blue sky
ReplyDeleteWho, me?
Happy contrails to you...
Not with a bang, but with a puff.
i'm glad you liked mine last week. now for this picture...
ReplyDeleteblowing my stack
where's the non-smoking area?
Gone with the wind
ReplyDeleteSmoking gun.
ReplyDeletesmoke signals.
smoke and where's the mirrors?
Terri
factory-sealed burps
ReplyDeletepuff, puff, puff...I think I can, I THINK I can...
steamed off
Warning: smoking makes you impotent.
ReplyDeleteChoking on progress
Yes, I've tried it but I never inhaled.
Thanks for the honorable menschens.
ReplyDeleteA little contribution to the Big Smoke!
Smoking gun ...
ReplyDeleteHi Carmi, I've just done an environmental post too .... maybe you inspired me ;)
calmly blowing my stack
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't me, I SWEAR!
ReplyDeleteOk so most of the commenters taglines have already included this word but......
ReplyDeleteI have to go with my chain of thought when I first saw the pic(ok go with me here) this "smokestack"(is that what it is?) looked like a cigarette with the smoke puffing out and that lead me to think of a certain funny movie so my tagline is....
S-s-s-smokin'!
Um, if you didn't follow me and you have no idea what I'm referring to than just think Jim Carey with a green face. ;o)
"Yabba-dabba-doooooooooooooo!" *a long whistle sounds in the background*>
ReplyDelete"I've never inhaled."
ReplyDeletepuff-perfect
ReplyDeletenot sure how my co-worker thought this upon seeing the photo, but here goes:
ReplyDeletebean beans the magical fruit, the more you eat them the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel so eat your beans at every meal.
:) thank you Carmi for the honor......I am still trying to get used to the transition from the unrestricted schedules at school to the current tied-down life at work....enjoying it but blogging seems to have taken a backseat....that explains such late responses!!!!
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