Your Mother is Pissed Off

Texas Coast Braces For Rita
“If Katrina did anything, it woke people up to the power of Mother Nature,” said Anthony Griffin, 51, who spent Wednesday boarding up his Galveston law office before heading to his brother’s home in Fort Worth. “When Katrina hit this country, it was in a city that everyone knew and those folks looking at the TV camera looked like folks we knew.”

I’m not one of those people who believe God literally chooses to punish one group of people for their transgressions but, you’ve got to hand it to the crazy jihadists, they’re definitely onto something when they claim these big hurricane’s are the Almighty’s way of punishing the US for its sins.

For decades, the US has been ignoring warnings about the dangers of global warming — among the least of which are stronger and more frequent tropical storms. The Bush administration has blatantly thumbed its nose at members of the international community who’ve been pleading with us to be part of the solution. Bush’s reply has been, in essence, ‘If China’s not going to do it, then we’re not going to do it.’

This kind of childishness will, literally, be the death of us all.

Besides more (and more dangerous) tropical storms, global warming is directly responsible for the loss of habitat required by hundreds (thousands?) of different species from giant polar bears to tiny organisms that live deep in the ocean. Humans are far more dependent upon the earth’s great diversity of life than most of us will ever realize.

What will it take for the people of this country to DEMAND that we change our ways? How many cities destroyed? How many species wiped out?

Maybe these hurricanes really are the hand of God, reaching down from heaven to give the United States a good swift slap across the face.