Difficult Morning
Last night I had to shut the windows around suppertime due to smoky conditions. The smoke was still around this morning, so out the window went my hopes of getting something done today. My laundry tub is outside, obviously I can't do yard work and gardening, and it seemed foolish to worsen my congestion and sinus problems with grocery shopping in this filthy air.
This is definitely not coming from fires in The Everglades or The Big Cypress Preserve. The smoke comes and goes, then settles in for the night as it gets dark. The prevailing wind has been westerly, not southeasterly. I think it's coming from the burning of yard waste, but I really don't know...and I have no way of finding out what's going on. The only thing I can do is hunker down, turn on my air cleaning machines, and hope for the best.
At the risk of getting into a political discussion, I have to say that clean air and water should not be a political football to be used for partisan squabbling. The issue of a livable environment should transcend partisan politics and be an issue that people of all political persuasions can agree on.
To say that the scientists are all wrong, that pollution and global warming are not problems we need to deal with...I see that as taking a position that is undeniably anti-science. If we reject the whole notion of gathering objective knowledge and using it to inform our decisions, then where exactly would we be going? What kind of blindly conformist society would we be creating?
The regulations governing air pollution have been rendered null and void in my community, and I am coughing and choking with congestion. That's my reality, and it's not something I see as subject to political interpretation. When you can't go outside because the air is too polluted, that's not a good situation.
This is definitely not coming from fires in The Everglades or The Big Cypress Preserve. The smoke comes and goes, then settles in for the night as it gets dark. The prevailing wind has been westerly, not southeasterly. I think it's coming from the burning of yard waste, but I really don't know...and I have no way of finding out what's going on. The only thing I can do is hunker down, turn on my air cleaning machines, and hope for the best.
At the risk of getting into a political discussion, I have to say that clean air and water should not be a political football to be used for partisan squabbling. The issue of a livable environment should transcend partisan politics and be an issue that people of all political persuasions can agree on.
To say that the scientists are all wrong, that pollution and global warming are not problems we need to deal with...I see that as taking a position that is undeniably anti-science. If we reject the whole notion of gathering objective knowledge and using it to inform our decisions, then where exactly would we be going? What kind of blindly conformist society would we be creating?
The regulations governing air pollution have been rendered null and void in my community, and I am coughing and choking with congestion. That's my reality, and it's not something I see as subject to political interpretation. When you can't go outside because the air is too polluted, that's not a good situation.
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