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Species ending? It's our call

By Frank Keegan
11/16/08
Relax general. Cheer up. Things shall get worse, but they could get better. The choice is ours.

Hearing a vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff utter the words "species ending" about our near future should be enough to wake us all.

Gen. James E. Cartwright uttered the phrase recently during the inaugural Johns Hopkins University Leaders + Legends lecture. He spoke on "Leading Organizational Change to Meet New Challenges."

What challenges? Financial crises, climate change, weapons of mass destruction widely and readily available to rogue states and lunatic groups. Is that all? No.

"Competition (for scarce world resources) inevitably will lead to conflict," Cartwright said. "Are we at a tipping point? Yes. Will we have control? No."

Generals are interested because when leaders of state, commerce and church mess up, armed forces have to clean up.

Cartwright"s love and admiration for the men and women who fight for us if things go wrong is palpable. Figuring out when and where the next conflict breaks out, and how best to combat it, is what generals are supposed to do.

Now they also try to figure out why, and ways to prevent it. For example, a 2004 Department of Defense study determined global warming is the No. 1 threat to the security of the United States. How can that be if ...

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Why should Calif. be granted a waiver for tailpipe emissions standards.

What is that about.....They must have a lot of pollution with all the traffic in Calif.

Some of this is overkill.....Here is a committee that their sole purpose is figuring out ways to
change America. In the meantime we are getting pollution from other sources.

Look at the volcano's that spew stuff all the time....Look at airplanes...Look at the damage earthquakes
do, and the mess they create...Look at the fires in Calif...Look at the pollution when there are buildings
that catch fire... Look at accidents that cause fires and the tires are burning. etc...etc....etc

Seems like their main interest is holding America hostage because of their views.
Meanwhile, a lot of our industry has moved because of the restrictions and per diem charged for
not changing everything to their expectations.

A town near me wanted to put up a windmill and EPA said no because it would interfere with
the flight pattern of the birds.......go figure.....