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There are still large groups in Oregon that don't belive Climate change is happening.   I will be 70 this year and the changes are very dramatic for me.   We need to make plans for saving and sequestering water,   we need to stop having lawns and instead plant bushes,trees and food etc in our lawns, we need to give up gas guzzeling automobiles.   Many birds are gone, glaciers are gone, the mountaub climate has changed dramatically.   We need more trees.  I think these kinds of everyday changes that individuals could make will affect climate change more than industrial changes. 

posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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We need to remember first of all that any invested money is a form of gambling.  It can go bad as we all discovered in the past few years.   It has been so long since this happened that in generally we are all blaming investment decisions, or in the case of pers the way the system is set up.   There is no way to prevent the possibility of losing money, even putting in in your mattress.   It has been difficult for everyone, and there are obviously better investments than some funds made, but Ithink that anger projected to PErs or any other retirement account is misplaced. 

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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We need to continue to grow lumber for commercial use, and leave the forests alone, especially the old growth forest.   Anyone who has had the experience of walking through an old growth forest will be amazed.   It is a wondrous experience.   There are very few of them left in the world today, and Oregon has a few.   In Europe they are now national parks.    Leave the forest alone.   Nature knows how to manage the forest, and belive it or not even fires need to happen for the correct ecological balance.   However the commercial growing of trees works well.   I know it is a long produced product and we just need to be willing to pay more for it than engineered products.  I love wood furniture, and have some, but will not buy new wood furniture anymore unless I know it comes from farmed materials.   The transition from just using up everything, to caring for the earth is a very difficult one, from giving up our cars, to changing how we build our houses.   But if we continue to resist it will only put off the enevitable.   The difference will be that one day we will not have any natural forest, or we will have forest and livable buildings.

posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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Unfortunately we are in the mess because we have alway put human need above the needs of other species. Out attitude has distroyed much of the ecosystem, and put the rest of it out of balance. The answers are not easy, but I suspect less management is better. I don't think we know enough to ease the damage. The system will right itself, but not in our lifetime. It may be better by the time my grandchildren are in their 60's if we leave it alone. We would do better to find new ways to manage our own lives, ie with less oil, less electricity use, less water use. We need to pollute less, make out tools out of materials that will decay and return to the soil etc. Until we see outselves as part of the system rather then Lords of it we will always be in trouble.

posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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