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Most People FAIL To do anything to Stop Causing Climate Change... Expect More Disasters! The Hurricane in SoCal Over... Not Much Damage... Some Flooding but MY Family Wasn't Harmed... I was Worried...

a friend and I were Discussing the Climate Change Protest at Burning Man... 
I Said: I think a climate protest at Burning Man is a Bad Idea... It seems to me that we are doomed to experience worse and worse climate and there is NO HOPE... So Why Cause a disturbance when we are DOOMED?
The people that Drive Cars and the People That Fly in Jet Airplanes are Continuing to Drive and Fly more than ever before... and THOSE Actions are what's Causing Climate Change...

She Replied: Well, I’m such nature lover and nomadic homebody (I know, it makes no sense🤨). I dislike big crowds for any reason. Especially, those that bring disruption and destroy the natural environment, even the tiniest of eco-systems. And for sure, the Burning Man event destroys all kinds of natural things of various sizes.

I think wind turbines and solar panels are destructively unacceptable for the planet/ environment and electric cars are as well— for all the earth and eco-systems destroyed through mining for all that’s required and the power and space it takes to manufacture them. Solar panels too, destroy vast areas land full of eco systems and they are only good for a few years at a time before they have to be replaced. Its a lose, lose idea. So even if that’s all there was, was EVs to drive and we used way less fossil fuels, we are still destroying the planet by a billion-other cuts. Human life is the only life destroying this planet and all other life on it. We are unsuitable and should get the hell outta here!


and I Replied: 
WELL... This email is truly sad... with no hope for the future... I agree... everything looks like the quality of life is going to get worse until I'm Dead... then it will continue to get worse but I won't Know about it or Care...

Since the Vast Majority of people refuse to reduce the amount of gasoline they burn... and our entire civilization REQUIRES cars and trucks for survival... and the "Jet Set" is still flying like crazy... Even my own family continues to destroy the climate...

The only thing we can really do is to live in a place that is unlikely to be destroyed by climate Change...

I feel that Orangevale (near Sacramento, CA) is Unlikely to BURN or FLOOD... Even if we Had a Wildfire, the Local Fire department would be able to put it out... before it burned my house down... and I'd go swim in our creek until the fire had burned everything... and anyway... I have a Bag Packed and I'm a renter so... I'd just go live in San Francisco or Eureka...

My Family Lives near the Coast of California... a great Place to Live to survive Climate Change... San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Eureka... and Of these Places... only San Diego is Having Hurricanes... But my cousin had to evacuate from a Wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains... However, if his Cabin burned down, he can just go live with his girlfriend... permanently...

80% of the USA is in Danger from Climate Change... and SO MANY are "Climate Change Deniers" and they Refuse to Learn... or take action... to save their own lives...



We are taking some action but NOT ENOUGH... Solar Panel and Windmills are a Good Idea... Electric Cars are a Good Idea... but it's too little too damn late...
  


On 8/17/2023 I said: "Possible Hurricane in California Next Week. A Foot of Rain Predicted... Climate Change has Made The Weather on Planet Earth Bizarre!"

Hurricane Hilary 2023: 
The hurricane could potentially bring “significant impacts” to parts of the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States this weekend, including rainfall of up to 12 inches in the Southern California mountains, according to the National Hurricane Center.



How climate change makes hurricanes more destructive...
As our climate warms, we’re experiencing stronger winds, higher storm surges and record rainfalls during hurricane season — which is also why these storms are becoming more destructive and costly. Evaporation intensifies as temperatures rise, and so does the transfer of heat from the oceans to the air. As the storms travel across warm oceans, they pull in more water vapor and heat.

That means stronger wind, heavier rainfall and more flooding when the storms hit land.

NASA: A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate. 

NASA: A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate.



and Now for Something Completely Different... Jokes!
Apple Puzzle - With Two Solutions - an Opportunity to Truly "Think Outside the Box" 
apple puzzle - think outside the box

Answer: Line up the apples, make one knife stroke cutting each apple into two pieces with 2/3rds on one side of the cut and 1/3rd on the other side of the cut. Distribute... 

Alternative Answer:  Murder one of the people in the picture. The remaining two get a whole apple each. 

Think Outside the Box - Merchandise - Zazzle Gregvan

Link to All My "Think Outside the Box" Merchandise...

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42
Lake Shore Drive Traffic Sign

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42


"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42

"Vote 4 Joe" meme joke cartoon - fun - collected by gvan42




OREO: A Racist Insult. A person that is Black on the Outside but White on the Inside. A Classic Example is Ben Carson. He's the HUD Secretary even though he knows nothing about Housing or Urban Development.

He Does What He's Told To Do! He is GREAT at Evicting Children... 

HUD Secretary Ben Carson mixes up a real estate term and Oreo sandwich cookies... 

An REO, or “real estate owned,” refers to a kind of property owned by a lender, like a bank, after a foreclosure. An Oreo is a kind of delicious sandwich cookie.

In a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson mixed the two terms up.

Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., was attempting to ask Secretary Carson about disparities in REO rates. According to Porter, Federal Housing Administration loans have far more properties that become real estate owned, than other loans from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

“I would also like to ask you to get back to me, if you don’t mind, to explain the disparity in REO rates. Do you know what an REO is?” asked the congresswoman.

“An Oreo…” replied Carson.  

“R, no not an Oreo. An R-E-O.” shot back Porter.  

“Real estate?” asked Carson.

“What’s the O stand for?” said Porter.

“E-organization?” asked Carson.  

I asked @SecretaryCarson about REOs - a basic term related to foreclosure - at a hearing today. He thought I was referring to a chocolate sandwich cookie. No, really. 

pic.twitter.com/cYekJAkRag

— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 21, 2019
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/21/ben-carson-real-estate-term-oreo-cookies/3755393002/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-oreo-hud/index.html

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1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

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I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

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