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            <title>Comment #1 by Steven Earl Salmony</title>
			<link>http://www.grist.org/article/live-at-coal-river-mass-protest-against-mountaintop-removal/</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:04:32 -0700</pubDate>
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				<p>Dear Jim Hansen,</p><p>Thanks for being there and for all the great work you are doing by speaking out loudly, clearly and often as well as by standing up for what you know to be true, according to the best available scientific evidence.</p><p>In expressing&nbsp;full agreement with your perspective and activism, it does appear the human community cannot keep growing in the unbridled ways we are now because the gigantic current scale and rapid expansion of human activities in the wondrous, finite world God blesses us to inhabit could become unsustainable soon. What worries me most is that many people do not yet even see what we have before us as a formidable predicament, let alone its forbidding and growing magnitude. From my humble vantage point, many too many leaders who do see the huge global challenges &#123;climate destabilization is one of them&#125; that could soon be confronted by the family of humanity have chosen not to speak of them, but to remain electively mute and in denial. Although I am an ageing old worry-wart whose sight is failing and faculties are diminishing, it is necessary for me to fulfill a "duty to warn" by reporting that I see the potential for a colossal, human-induced ecological wreckage looming on the horizon.</p><p>Hopefully, I am mistaken.</p><p>Always,</p><p>Steve&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Steven Earl Salmony</p><p>AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,</p><p>established 2001</p><p>http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176&nbsp;</p>
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				<p>Dear Jim Hansen,</p><p>Thanks for being there and for all the great work you are doing by speaking out loudly, clearly and often as well as by standing up for what you know to be true, according to the best available scientific evidence.</p><p>In expressing&nbsp;full agreement with your perspective and activism, it does appear the human community cannot keep growing in the unbridled ways we are now because the gigantic current scale and rapid expansion of human activities in the wondrous, finite world God blesses us to inhabit could become unsustainable soon. What worries me most is that many people do not yet even see what we have before us as a formidable predicament, let alone its forbidding and growing magnitude. From my humble vantage point, many too many leaders who do see the huge global challenges &#123;climate destabilization is one of them&#125; that could soon be confronted by the family of humanity have chosen not to speak of them, but to remain electively mute and in denial. Although I am an ageing old worry-wart whose sight is failing and faculties are diminishing, it is necessary for me to fulfill a "duty to warn" by reporting that I see the potential for a colossal, human-induced ecological wreckage looming on the horizon.</p><p>Hopefully, I am mistaken.</p><p>Always,</p><p>Steve&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Steven Earl Salmony</p><p>AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,</p><p>established 2001</p><p>http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176&nbsp;</p>
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            <title>Comment #2 by Biodiversivist</title>
			<link>http://www.grist.org/article/live-at-coal-river-mass-protest-against-mountaintop-removal/</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:25:06 -0700</pubDate>
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				<p>Real change always comes from the bottom up. Thank you Dr. Hansen. Never mind the chirping crickets. They will come out when it's safe to do so.</p>
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				<p>Real change always comes from the bottom up. Thank you Dr. Hansen. Never mind the chirping crickets. They will come out when it's safe to do so.</p>
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