The radio program included a number of participants with the Veterans Conservation Corps. The individual who got my attention was a female (sorry, I didn’t catch her name), who was sharing as to why she was participating in the Veterans Conservation Corps. In her comments she shared the drastic change that came over her during her multiple deployments to Iraq.
When she entered the military she wasn’t sold on the “Global Warming” issue. Actually she thought that it wasn’t much to worry about … “just a natural cycle of world climate changes that comes and goes” I believe is how she said it. That all changed in her deployments to Iraq.
Her job, while in Iraq, was to drive a water tanker everyday to various locations throughout the country to re-supply the citizens of that country with safe water for human consumption. It was during these daily trips that she came face-to-face with Global Warming. “You could see it happening right before your very face … the change was more than just noticeable, it actually took my breath away.”
It was what she said near the end that really got my attention … that terrorists are using the Global Warming reality to their benefit … as a tool to further their cause of hatred towards the industrialized Western nations who are polluting the air, water and earth with their greed for more of everything … and all the terrorists had to do was point to the devastation of their homeland … which was drying up right before their eyes.
We are so concerned about the terrorist bringing to our shores their extreme thinking and deadly actions … i.e. the recent protests over the Mosque near Ground Zero in New York City … but those who are fanning the flame of hatred will not mention what we are doing globally that is creating another reason for the extremist’s beliefs.
We either are going to be global citizens, taking care of the environment, or we will suffer the consequences of our actions. Global Warming is having a direct effect, at least by the observations of this military veteran of the Iraq war, on how the Arab people view our nation. Maybe it is time for us to seriously reconsider our position on Global Warming and what we can and should do about it!
Quote for today: We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future. Jimmy Carter
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