How puny are you?

Have you ever stood on a mountain at night and seen a city glowing so the night sky above it is orange? Cities have raised temperatures. We have parks in order to cool us up a bit.

Have you stood on a pavement and seen all the cars going by in the street, mostly with one driver per car or personal tank. Multiply them by all the streets in your town, and multiply this by all the towns in the world. See the pictures of freeways at http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/freeway.html.

How many animal and plant species have been extinguished in the past fifty years, compared with the past 1000? How many are threatened by expanding human settlement and appetites? Have you seen road-kill? http://candobetter.org/node/1094 and this happens all over the world.

What of what we connive at in other countries?

Where has everything in your home come from? Get the kids to place the names of the things on a map of the world. How much emissions and resources were needed to get them to you?

What about the destruction by modern war? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/compare-aerial-images-of-wwii-destruction-with-today-in-google-earth/

Consider the resources necessary to rebuild. http://hindu.com/folio/fo0001/00010340.htm

The toll on the natural environment in Afghanistan http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=1524

Vietnam – the destruction of the natural environment by Agent Orange, land-mines and permanent continuers of the war. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3798581.stm

The destruction of Iraq - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14870

Our taxes help to pay for the destruction of war, and the preparations for war. All these raise greenhouse gases and environmental pollution.

How puny are you? Too puny to do anything about what you are doing? I don't think so.