CAUTION: Contains startling facts and in some cases, strong language. Before you read: Im not trying to convince anyone of anything. This is not a rally to my cause or a way to sell fear to the public. It is, in its simplest form, my personal thoughts and in writing this, I hope to find something that is yet to find me. Do not overthink this message. It is just my thoughts. My chosen field of study has proved to reveal some startling facts about us as a species. It has opened my eyes of how the media and politicians refuse to tell not what we want to know but what we NEED to know. There are underlying issues that plague our very existence and by continually being stuck in the dark, our ways of life will not change, and it will lead to a short term period of posterity, but end in tragedy and despair of our race. In New York, it is almost invisible to the eye of the average city goer what our world around us is doing as we continue to look ahead and not around, but out here,where mountains control everything, it is in plain sight to see that the world is changing and while we may not have caused it, we are certainly accelerating it. In California, people are using up more water than can be provided by the lakes and rivers. The mighty Colorado River does not even make it to the ocean anymore. In Glacier National Park, the remaining glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate each year, causing massive melting periods in the spring and worse droughts during the dry August month. In Wyoming, hydrofracking, a practice to extract underground water to obtain resources below is causing large amounts of methane to be both extracted in the water that sits in a lake to be used by local wildlife and flies high into the atmosphere. In Butte and Libby, Montana, countless mining booms has brought about the largest toxic lake inside the united states and also sits the source for all of the World Trade Centers asbestos. Yes, asbestos is mined and was extracted in the thousands of pounds from right here in Montana. As time goes on, the world will continue to complicate in its issues facing us as humans, and as a 20 year old faced with this issue as is the case for all my colleagues here with me, this is a lot to take in. It is up to us, the next generation of people, the next generation of scientists, ecologists, politicians, and law makers to do the right thing. We are at a point of which we wipe out entire ecosystems to house pipelines and fracking lakes, with the thought given to us that their influence on the land is not threatening. It is and we must learn a valuable lesson here on our only home. We cannot continue to live like we are the only species on this earth. We cannot continue to think that we are safe inside our concrete buildings and expanding farmlands. Here in the west, the evidence is all around me. I cant deny it, I cant run away from it. This is a very important time, the one that all time after it will be compared to. What my colleagues and I do here will shape the foundation for the future of this world. Coexistence, this is my mission and it starts here. Time to get to work.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:49:50 +0000
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