First of a potential series of comments upon Greenpeace's Report entitled above. (...) "Global warming is a clear and present danger to America’s public health, economy, and environment....The economic cost of global warming to the U.S. economy from just four impacts—hurricane damage, water shortage, energy costs, and real estate losses—are projected to reach $271 billion by 2025." (..) The coming resource wars and conflicts will also up the price of inaction. One reason that the Iraq and Afghanistan-Pakistan wars are now raging, and probable ones in Africa and South America as well, even the Israeli-Palestinian row, is to secure oil and water supplies at the lowest current and future prices. Iraq, at 30 dollars a barrel in 2002, has an estimated 175 trillion dollars of oil waiting to be pumped. Solar and wind will increasingly solve both problems, as the peak fossil fuel decreases in world supply, and increases in world energy demand curves, will insure higher and higher oil, natural gas and other fossil fuel prices as well, so the reports beginning summary, by failing to include war as a global warming-associated cost(for lacking an affordable energy alternative) is an oversight perhaps, since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to former World Bank President Stieglitz (spelling?), has already insured a price tag of over 3 trillion dollars!

The local well-driller around here is trying to make ends meet by servicing wells which are going dry because of the lack of rain. In the 1940s yearly flooding was the rule in this still rural area. Even just ten years ago, circa 1995, I had to mow around my ranch house eight to ten times to keep unwanted volunteer vegetation manageable. This year I mowed twice. General Electric keeps edging ever closer to bringing itself into the water desalinization business. Of course this will be a boone to someone, but in the current political climate, I doubt it will be beneficial to either mother nature or we the people. Corporations plan upon using water shortages to gouge the public, no doubt, for everything they can squeeze.

I'm a Pentacostal Christian who in 1988 wrote a "readers open forum" letter to the editor of our local newspaper, the "Riverside Press-Enterprise," here in southern California. I declared that the oil industry was a dinosaur fuel source, compared to solar, and that the environmental movement woul never go away...because it was a "movement," not a political policy. Martin Luther spoke for a religious movement, not as a mere individual advocating a mere policy change, the opposition to him was huge therefore. Likewise the extent of opposition of the old oil age to the new solar age is also extensive and fierce. Lashing out via fascist tools, mindless, desperate wars, rampant craven idolatry favoring the worship of the god of money, Mammon, and the god of war, Mars; brutality, lies, greed, lust, gluttony, etc., all symptoms of a falling empire nation, ruling through national socialism by Republicans, corporate socialism by the Democrats, and their very successes, actually indicate the truth of the old childhood addage: "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." So the more "they" fight and win, the hard rains a-commin,' the greater will be the rainbows at storms' endings. Theologically, it is simple: actually Jehovah uses the Satanic gods of Mammon and Mars to set them all up for their own demise. The earth too, in congruity with the father and His son, Jesus Christ, will simply repopulate the planet as has perhaps happened numerous times over the eons, should the errors of "Adam" end with the errors of the "Atom," alpha-omega, the New Testament being not the greatest story ever told, but the only story ever told. So ultimate failure is really impossible, no matter if the bombs drop on us all today, this very hour! So lets be happy and always blast our musical and mental exultations to the sky continually. Your whole life is a miraculous prayer, and the clouds themselves mirror it.