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INVENTORY ?
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HUH? NATURAL HISTORY?

THERE IS NOTHING 'NATURAL' ABOUT MANKIND'S HISTORY!

NOTHING !



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INVENTORY ?


© - Tom Hyland - 2/25/14


LEI'S SEE NOW ...


1. Since the Invention of Furnaces, Locomotives, and Factories ...
all burning Coal ... say 200 years ...
"The Industrial Revolution" ...
We have polluted our Air!

2. Then also, since the invention of the "Infernal Horseless Carriage"
in the late 1800's ...
We have continued air pollution ...
by adding CO2 ... Carbon Dioxide into the Atmosphere!

3. With all sorts of Mining:
Gold, Copper, Silver, Aluminum, Coal, and other Minerals ...
We have desecrated the Soil ... Everywhere ...
As well as ... the Air and Waterways!

4. We have stripped most of the Rain Forests ...
As well as ... most Timberlands ...
To get Wood ... to build Hundreds of Millions
of 'Tinder-Box' Homes!

5. We have built Thousands of Sprawling Metropolises ...
Everywhere ... from Coast to Coast ... in Every Country ...
Stripping Pristine Natural Flora and Fauna ...
Replaced by Billions of Tons of Concrete, Metal, and Glass!

6. Just think of That Weight Alone ...
Being Compressed in Local Areas ...
Buildings, Streets, Roads, Water & Sewer Mains ...
Add ... the Weight of Millions of People!

7. Water Pollution is another 'Man-Made Invention' ...
Creeks, Streams, Lakes, Ponds, Rivers, Bays ... Oceans ...
Being Strangled by Human Trash ...
Urine, Feces, Garbage, Plastics, Rubber Tires, Junk Cars!

8. What about God's Creatures?
Polar Bears, Deer, Elk, Moose, Elephants, Wolves, Coyotes, Foxes ...
The Birds of the Air ... The Fish of the Sea ...
ALL APPROACHING EXTINCTION!

9. And ... What about ... PETS?
Cats, Dogs, and All Other ... Abandoned Critters?
Tossed Aside ... Just Like our Human Trash!
Callousness? Stupidity? Greed? Corruption?

10. And ... Finally ... HUMAN TRASH!
The Homeless! Un-Sheltered! Un-Clothed! Unfed!
LIVING HAND-TO-MOUTH ... IN CARDBOARD BOXES!
WOUNDED AND DISABLED VETERANS ... IGNORED!

"Man's Inhumanity to Man" ...

ADAM AND EVE'S EPITAPH !!!


Corrupt Politicians and So-Called 'Leaders' ...
All Over the Globe ... In Every Nation ...
Greedily Scrambling ... for the "Fortunes of War"!


As Shakespeare's PUCK so aptly said:
So Many, Many Years Ago ...

"WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!"

INVENTORY? TAKE STOCK?
PRAY TELL ... WHAT ELSE CAN WE 'SCREW UP'?
SPACE? THE "FINAL FRONTIER"?

(C) - TKH.

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Reviewed on March 19, 2014
Great article, Tom!! Now, ddd to that the Natural Gas drilling and FRACKING! Not that far from me was the drilling/fracking (supposedly 4000' deep. NOT!) Homes around there had foundations cracked; fortunately I (and outdoor cats) only felt the tremors.
Much, Much better than a Tornado Wall would be large dirt berms. Evidence: when the 2000 Ft. Worth tornado hit from the West, it traveled easterly, following I-30 (I live 3 blocks south). About 1-1/2miles to the west of me, there is a 400 ft. elevation rise (berm?) in No. Arlington; this caused the tornado to "jump" into the sky and pass over my location (I could year the the "train noise" above me - I stood on my front porch after getting my 8 cats into closet). 2 miles to the east it touched down again at Hwy 360 (just missing the Arlington Ballpark) and veered to the south, damaging abut 200 homes. It was the elevation rise (berm?) that saved No. Arlington!!

Reviewed by John Coppolella
Reviewed on February 28, 2014
Vintage Trasking here, TK. Verbage non-excessive to preempt more waste in baby knowledge of our home planet. Every action requires nerd-energy here even housed in thought, the by-product being heat. Got to the pi-center of global warming, Washington D.C.

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on February 27, 2014
Hey you forgot to mention the new tornado wall they're thinking about building along the entire southern border of Oklahoma. A thousand feet tall! That has to rival any human boondoggle ever imagined.

cuz p

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on February 26, 2014
Being an environmentalist and an animal lover (both wild animals and pets) this planet gets sadder and sadder for me every day now, and I now pray that once we completely trash Earth, we don't colonize another planet, and trash it as well. We are now Earth's parasites, devouring everything in our path.

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
Nicely done Tom! Yes, we are told in the Bible that man has dominance over all the bird, fish and animals on earth. We have an awesome responsibility. It's high time we live up to that task. Amen!

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
and we've already got lots of space junk waiting on gravity's pull to rain down on us. Well Said.

Michael D.

Reviewed by steve patterson
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
Amen. what a shame man's pride & greed blind him to what is & what could be.

Reviewed on February 25, 2014
You said it so well! I compare humankind to the rust that eats away at metal, to mildew that ruins stuff, to parasites, etc... Write on!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
A fine inventory of our miserable presence. As a result of experiments that left behind the finished experiment, the earth is ringed with a trash belt of defunct satellite material and rockets. Thankfully, most of it will burn up upon reentry. On the other hand, the movie, Gravity, illustrated what can happen if space junk came to close for comfort.

Ron

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
"all in not well in Denmark" that's for sure ...

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
Abortion took care of the rest. We have come full cycle.

Reviewed by John Martin
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
Ya hada go mention space..Now ya done it! It won't be long now before someone starts de-asteroiding the asteroid belt and turns it into an old broken satellite dump :-)

Reviewed by S. Tucker
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
To this I can only say a resounding and heartfelt 'AMEN!' Well said, my friend.

Sand

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on February 25, 2014
i beleive you have coverd it all very well
budd


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