Pollution

While checking the weather for Orem for the week something I would normally not do in June because we usually have contually sunny weather, I came across a linked site called Forecast Earth. There was a good article with ideas on how to use kitchen appliances more effectively and lots of other good stories. When I travelled to Heathrow from Edinburgh, when buying the ticket there was an option of adding a pound or more to help with emissions costs. There was a debate there about air travel and the effects of emissions from airplanes. Heathrow is the busiest international airport in the world despite what the Forecast Earth says (Atlanta) and I saw a huge line of planes before and after my plane. It seemed as though the planes took off almost 2 minutes apart. Also in Edinburgh they are bringing back trams to cut down on pollution from buses, and I recently read how train lines and stations that were closed during the infamous Dr. Beeching's time (1960s) to help with costs, are now beginning to be opened to help with pollution from cars. Like the UDOT people in Utah they were surprised that people actually used the trains instead of taking cars. Hmm. Could the ordinary person be wiser than the bureaucrats? If you build it they will come or use it.

So, as the majority of musings on this site seem to have some kind of scientific bent, I'm adding the Forecast Earth as a link on this site because we are "all involved in mankind" (to coin a phrase from John Donne) and we all play a part by the way we live and interact.

Pollution of the earth and the environment is one thing, but there are other pollutions such as pornography, war, and other social ills that affect not just the physical but emotional, mental and spiritual health of the human family. But that's another discussion.