Some Things CIEDRA will have a tough time Protecting
(2005 letter to editor)
By Jim Banholzer
For decades, much praise has been lavished upon the Boulder-White Cloud area. It’s thought to be a realm so clean that some hikers still dip their heads under waterfalls for unfiltered drinks. Without a doubt, every positively vibrating drop of water and grain of sand in this wonderful area is worth protecting.
The new CIEDRA bill has gathered support from groups sometimes poles apart. Other parties are not so sure about some compromises. A large part of the bill is oriented towards protecting Boulder-White Cloud wilderness areas “Forever”.
It is nice that we should try.
With new technology ever encroaching into the woods, environmental challenges perpetually rise like multi-headed hydra out of atomic aquifers. If a new Sempra coal burning plant plops like mercury into Jerome, how will this pristine area north of there be protected from winds a changing? What about the likelihood of another eventual nuclear mishap at the INL? Or, somewhere else in the world?
The sad truth is that all of us have already been poisoned by our own gooey messes. Chemicals companies contaminate the biosphere with insufficient impact studies. Deadly Plutonium orbits over our heads in spacecraft while “depleted” uranium dust is blowin’ in the winds around the world. Bottom feeding fish lop up mercury emissions from power plants; the list is long.
How soon will it be that Mother Earth becomes so worn out that even the deeply filtered founts from the White Clouds will no longer be able to hold her good vibrations?
What about the case of the patriotic soldier, weary from war coming back to reunite with his wife on a camping trip in the romantic woodlands of the Boulder-White Clouds? Ready to start a new family he severely contaminates his wife, from the un-depleted uranium he passes into her while attempting to bring a bundle of joy into this world.
I wish that more legislative bills could provide us Homeland Security from sad nesses such as these that we have wrought unto ourselves. See: Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War LEUREN MORET / World Affairs – The Journal of International Issues 1jul04
Other rough draft notes:
White Clouds with Acid Rain?
Although offering protection for wilderness areas, some items of interest will be most challenging to protect “forever”. In fact, quite a few changes take place in the course of just five years. Consider the level of innocence this country held only five years ago.
The plutonium released from a spaceship accident into the atmosphere of earth in 1964 continues to contaminate the whole world to this day. Plutonium fueled missions continue through the early part of this new millenium. A thousand years hence will not somebody be asking, what in the world were they thinking?
Very few institutions last for a thousand years. With our armies stretched so thin, it’s not farfetched that some other country’s army –currently biding their time- could come marching into towns across America, surprising not well enough armed rednecks like myself with a hostile takeover. (Unless of course a hostile takeover from within grips us first) If our intelligence is seeing so well, why were we blindsided by the recent Hamas victory? Maybe that is the secret reasoning that immigration has not yet slowed. America is going to need every body it can use to defend herself.
China for instance has troops nearly as plentiful as our whole population. 20,000,000 Chinese are learning literal English while merely 20,000 American’s Schoolchildren are learning fluent Chinese. At least we will still be speaking the same language; it will just be with a new dialect.
What about the mass production of these new flying-cars coming along in the next decade or two? Already available for less than the price of a Hummer and requiring no pilots license. Likely produced in China under the watchful advisement from Allen & Company. Animal poachers from high offices in ships in the sky and other nefarious individuals, who choose to use these vehicles as weapons of destruction flying above the white clouds, will create a good argument for more tracking and law enforcement systems.
Protecting something forever seems like a long time. How about in five year increments for starters? It was only five years ago that somebody was buzzing our own town with a small aircraft. Seems like an eternity ago.
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