I hope you find this Blog a resource for moral & environmental thoughts from a Christian viewpoint. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in".
*snort & chuckle* Ok. I know it's not REALLY funny, but the irony of the first several pics, then that last pic.... I just had to laugh. I guess the only options sometimes are laugh or cry. The devastation in those first several pics, though, is astonishing! I hadn't seen pics of the mid-west flood, except your usual, generic shot from above of random homes floating in a sea of muddy river water. After seeing years of those kinds of pictures that have no frame of reference (they could as easily date from 10 or 12 years ago, as they could from yesterday), it's hard to relate. But, seeing the family standing on the stone edge of the overflow, seeing the cars in France and Spain, seeing the flooding village cobblestone street in Britain. Those are places I didn't know are also flooding this year, and seeing that variety hits in one's stomach and actually elicits emotion and retrospection.
And still, the irony of that last pic from Calif. makes me chuckle. *sigh* Thanks for sharing the pictures, Peter!
Plastic bags used this year:
(Plastic bag counter from reusablebags.com)
Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used and disposed of worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year, in the sea, on the earth and in streams.
My Awards
With many thanks to the amazing Mrs.A for her award above. the very generous judges of The UK Christian Web Awards, for the award below and Margaret for hers.
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*snort & chuckle* Ok. I know it's not REALLY funny, but the irony of the first several pics, then that last pic.... I just had to laugh. I guess the only options sometimes are laugh or cry. The devastation in those first several pics, though, is astonishing! I hadn't seen pics of the mid-west flood, except your usual, generic shot from above of random homes floating in a sea of muddy river water. After seeing years of those kinds of pictures that have no frame of reference (they could as easily date from 10 or 12 years ago, as they could from yesterday), it's hard to relate. But, seeing the family standing on the stone edge of the overflow, seeing the cars in France and Spain, seeing the flooding village cobblestone street in Britain. Those are places I didn't know are also flooding this year, and seeing that variety hits in one's stomach and actually elicits emotion and retrospection.
And still, the irony of that last pic from Calif. makes me chuckle. *sigh* Thanks for sharing the pictures, Peter!
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