July/August 2009 - GreenList Louisville

can feast on the Rosemary and Basil all
summer long. Marigolds can also be
planted in the garden to help ward off
bugs without using insecticides.
I hope you find these tips useful. Be
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Ivy Remedy, Bite Balm, Sting Stick and
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Personal choices, corporate consequences
Jackie Green
Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
- From Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
What did you do in the Great War, grandpa?
- George C. Scott as General Patton
Almost daily I am reminded of why I
quit flying in 1993 and became car free
in 1999. The other morning NPRadio
aired a report on Italy’s struggles to
cope with illegal immigrants from
Libya. A couple of reports later a discussion
was aired of France’s problems
with legal Kurdistani immigrants. Later,
a report on Pakistan’s war with the Taliban
morphed into the issue of refugees
in England. All three separate reports
aired within the space of an hour. This
is not particularly alarming. The history
of humanity is the story of populations
on the move.
The alarming report came later in a
discussion of shrinking rivers no longer
fed by vast mountain glaciers, of slowly
rising ocean levels, of more violent
storms and of destabilized world
weather patterns.
Those rivers have irrigated the fields of
populations for millenniums. If their
waters are reduced too much, the fields
will not produce. If the crops fail, hungry
and impoverished populations are
going to move.
And those rising oceans do not have to
engulf earth’s lowest coastlines to loose
the agricultural production of coastal
plains. Soil salinity from either rising
aquifers or violent hurricane inundation
(remember Hurricane Katrina?) can
Disclaimer: This article is for educational
purposes only.
Jenny is the owner of Divine Creationz.
She is a certified Clinical Master Herbalist.
She provides personal health consultations.
She specializes in making individualized
herbal formulas. Jenny is also a
certified Reconnective Healing practitioner.
Jenny has been doing energy work
for 3.5 years. www.DivineCreationz.com
drastically reduce food production of
currently rich coastal plains. When food
can no longer be grown on the world’s
many lower coasts, those impoverished
populations will also move.
We are not talking about the folk at
Myrtle Beach suddenly finding themselves
in precarious position and
living on the streets of towns in the
piedmont. It is the multitudes who are
currently living a subsistence existence
that are of concern. A third of
the world’s population lives along the
coasts. The combined movement of
impoverished coastal populations and
poor populations from arid higher-altitudes
will dwarf the migrant problems
currently being experienced by
European countries, this country, and
every other country. Humanity could
see social chaos on a scale never before
experienced. And if that happens,
Myrtle Beach and Louisville will both
experience unpleasantries.
Social chaos is painful (another understatement).
It would be good for us to
take steps corporately and individually
to avoid such chaos. Corporately, our
transportation habits are big contributors
to global climate change. Individually,
the impact of my travel choices
is nearly insignificant. I am not going
to stop global climate instability, save
a species of plant or animal, keep a
South Sea island from sinking, prolong
the cheap abundance of petroleum,
or safeguard anyone’s food source.
Nevertheless, as part of our corporate
transportation pattern, as one of many,
my travel choices are undoubtedly
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