Comments hmw27 has made

  • Living the boom...

    Many people forget that Wyoming is more than the Tetons. That place "nobody" ever goes has a beauty of it's own, and the exchange of it for warm houses is no less tragic in the Jonah than outside Pinedale. Those zillion dollar ranch owners just have more clout than most.

    All of the towns within 100 miles of the Jonah are affected by this boom, but Farson, Rock Springs and Wamsutter don't have any "post-card" qualities (unless you count Jack-a-lopes).

    I understand the sorrow of losing a childhood memory to the onslaught of progress, but if we didn't want drilling in our wild places then we never should have let them have the Jonah; seriously, did we think it would satisfy them?

    At least Sweetwater County has decided to keep Adobe Junction in the Red Desert free of rigs. Now how's that for a place no one ever goes...

    Maybe we should focus our attention on making sure the NG corporations follow through on all that reclamation they promise to do, maybe someday the Lumen Road will be on the National Register of Historic Places!On Besieged by natural-gas exploration, a Wyoming town draws the line posted 3 years ago 5 Responses

  • no profit in climate shifts

    "Human society no matter how clever, no matter how wealthy, simply isn't equipped to live in a constantly, dramatically changing climate situation."

    The span of the human history contains numerous 'climatic episodes' of varying degrees. Climate changes; sometimes dramatically. In western North America, archaeologists have worked to understand a span of climate instability known as the Altithermal. It was characterized by warmer/dryer conditions that had a profound impact on plant and animal populations. Obviously the impact on the human hunter/gatherer populations resulted in cultural adaptation. And the shift in the archaeological record is fairly dramatic.

    Point is, the current discussions by the powers that be over who's causing what and how do we mitigate it? pale in comparison to the concept that we may not have the means to adapt to the change.

    "Economic development depends on stability and predictability."

    10,000 years of human history suggests climate is neither stable nor (greatly) predictable. The greatest challenge may be the relative lack of cultural adaptability in capitalist societies. I don't think capitalism can meet the challenges of dramatic climate change because of it's profit-making rules. On No. posted 3 years, 6 months ago 33 Responses