At Least Irma Did No Harm to Nature

I think it’s worth remembering that Hurricanes do no harm to nature at all. They are a natural part of the ecosphere that roll about stirring things up a little and creating new opportunities for habitat renewal.

It is human structures and activities ill-designed for ecospheric comparability that is the problem. That is a fact at many levels. People cannot thin deeply about the entire ecosphere and exist in tiny little individual niches within it-even big capitalists like President Trump.

So it is interesting encountering the global warming claims about Irma; that it is an example of global warming- yet also the first large Hurricane to hit Florida since the 2005 Cat 3 Wilma (that I experienced in a tent in Stuart Florida). Global warming is not the cause of hurricanes; they have been around forever. Four hurricanes hit Florida between 1553 and 1559 that killed more than 2000 people altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes#2000.E2.80.93present

I believe in global warming of course. The science is solid and objective. Even more I believe humans can increase global warming (I don’t feel good about owning a car and contributing tons of global warming gases from exhaust annually so I don’t own one). Yet pointing to hurricanes as examples of global warming just seems silly.

Over the course of planetary history there have been innumerable changes in climate and weather patterns. Probably they always are in change or permutation within certain parameters since it is an unstable thermodynamic system not always in equilibrium as perhaps the hydrogen burning phase of the sun is. Sometimes there may even be super-hurricanes that slam into the Gulf that are beyond the standard scale and that occur every three or four days. Fortunately that hasn't been the case in the past few thousand years, probably.

Should people take global warming seriously enough to ban fossil fuel cars- the major emitter of greenhouse gases? Sure they should yet of course they won;t for a generation or two until electric vehicles take over the majority of driver-guidance unit appendages humans for-themselves, if AI wants to have people contaminating the interior relaxation space of the machine-body.

The basic problem though is the way humanity lives in the environment without concern about nature expecting to exploit it or expecting it to be submissive or unchanging and supportive of the human physical social structure; it never will do that. Vast climate and land cycles of the surface tectonic plates and weather, and systems complexity of ecosphere will always upsurge into being displacing the museum of social existence disastrously. The challenge for human government and logic is to adapt structures of social being that thrive on and support ecospheric change and renewal rather than to expect it to die.

Why Congress Never Gets Anything Done

The U.S. Congress is quite unpopular. It seems never to get anything done. It also has made a shambles of the national budget and let the infrastructure rot. The people wonder why.

The answer is fairly simple. Each member of congress pursues self-interest rather than national interest. Collectively they pass a lot of bills to benefit their local constituents and flunk national interests. Congress has processed more than 10,000 bills passed per session the past twenty years on average with maybe 375 on average being passed into law, yet very few major, quality, reformative works that satisfy the public and assure the health of the environment, public finance or the economic interests of the people were part of that. The public regards congress as do nothings except to pass pork and perversion.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics

If one were to make a list of the top ten goals for each two-year session of congress that required congressional action to accomplish, few congresses since the 1970s have got two of ten done. Some got a zero.

The news media does keep a narrative of issues and contentious public issues going. That takes time and Congresspersons respond and put in their two cents worth, then collect campaign contributions and plan for re-election. The real, solid national issues that never go away and tend to get worse are buried under the headlines.

I can make a list of ten goals for any congress to get done that is fairly simple. Obviously people would disagree with the list all or in part. That in itself is part of the problem. Even so a congress must have such a list of priorities and work to accomplish those with equal energy as they pursue pork for their districts. Plainly getting a congress to accomplish a few of the staid goals would be a great achievement. Getting them to do anything new would be nearly impossible. The Apollo program required the treat of Soviets getting to the moon first and making a commune of it. No such competitive pressure exists today.

1) Balance federal budget

2) Eliminate national debt

3) Secure borders against illegal entry

4) Rebuild public infrastructure with new technology

5) Assure adequate guaranteed minimum income for all citizens

6) Provide free health care to all the poor

7) Stop loss of species and restore ecosystem health

8) Reform national incarceration system and stop crime

9) Eliminate North Korean nuclear weapons

10) Enforce equal protection of the law for all Americans in practice

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