On Mothers Day, it certainly is appropriate to wish your birth mother well. She doesn't need a greeting card, and please don't send cut flowers. Do something great for Mother Earth. She made you, she keeps you alive. Happy Mother Earth Day.
Over at New Republic, Al Gore puts all insults to our mother planet in perspective, in the context of the Gulf spill.
The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled pollution spewing into the environment. Worldwide, the amount of man-made CO2 being spilled every three seconds into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet equals the highest current estimate of the amount of oil spilling from the Macondo well every day. Indeed, the average American coal-fired power generating plant gushes more than three times as much global-warming pollution into the atmosphere each day—and there are over 1,400 of them.
Just as the oil companies told us that deep-water drilling was safe, they tell us that it’s perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of CO2 into the air of the world every 24 hours.
