By Holly M. Berkowitz
Iowa City, Iowa
Veterans’ Day, November 11,
2013
My father's actions in WWII
were honored with the Purple Heart and the Silver Star as a Veteran....and he
taught me the importance of exceptional vision and wisdom beyond the simple,
easy, cheap, quick and cash-driven obvious to save my own childrens' common
future now & generations from now.....
He (and others) taught me that
every action causes an equal and opposite, reciprocal (ironic) reaction
scientifically, mathematically, economically, morally far beyond only one
private self in our common, shared, uncertain, unlimited public
future....positive actions lifting All 100% up to light.....negative actions
sucking All down easy, cheap, quick.....
He taught me to count more
than artificial counts, more than mechanical, cookie-cutter absolutes of human
cash coins.... and that two negatives don’t always produce a positive
mathematically or logically in life…
He taught me to question the
obvious.
He and my mother taught me to
honor and respect the fragile but critical, inalienable flows, details and
productivity potentials, genius and wonders of nature that link and nourish
every biological cellular organism and system on earth to hold the fragile web
for all life intact….and that enable All 100% to grow upwards toward light
enough to thrive and share creatively….enough to count in human cash of only
1%….
He and my mother (both
teachers) helped me to understand that every action small or large causes either
blessing or curse..... now & generations from now....and that we need to
value exceptional, unique vision and wisdom beyond only one privatized self of
privatized, deregulated bank accounts of only 1% to find and count and prevent
those costs and consequences and cursesin the future… to grow blessings
impossible to count in human cash… all connected to actions that link our
private present to our own childrens’ future now and generations from now….and
that prevention pays….
So I am not afraid to count
and to value the invaluable impossible to count in human cash......to count
more than artificial, mechanical and blinding human walls and barriers of heavy, harsh, self-destructive cashflow floods
that are crushing our nation and world….and to count more than deadly cashflow
floods that drive our climate to morph into the most destructive storm in human
history that has just hit the Philippines..(stronger than Katrina and Sandy
combined)..more frequent and intense megastorms amplified by carbon emissions
and urban sprawl in urban heat islands thousands of miles away…
Don’t blame God. Blame humans that limit their vision to only
one, immediate, obvious and cash-driven now.
Green our cities now.
I am not afraid to stand up
and to speak out, to value the invaluable, the complex, the hidden of life’s
ironies, the priceless flows and functions and life systems and earth systems
(such as the aberrant Jet Stream) impossible to count in human cash....and to
stand up and to speak out to challenge and block those that are destroying
their own childrens' futures (and I value the Iowa Caucuses for that)
..............perhaps because privatized cashflow floods of urban walls blinds
the 1% and the many… and our huge futures together that don’t fit into 15
second media spots of, by, for private pleasures of only 1%….
We need to go to the ends of
the earth to see the curvature of the earth…
Our nation needs to balance
nature’s hidden but critical budget of critical and hidden functions impossible
to count in cash to balance our own household budgets….to keep humans alive day
to day and minute to minute…
Our common futures together
and survival of life on earth are not a partisan issue. One of the most Republican voices in
Washington, D.C. has begged Americans to invest in renewable energy use,
production, infrastructure because he values his childrens’ futures also. Republican Governor Terry Branstad has
helped Iowa to become a leading producer of wind power for our nation.
All need to count more than
cash:
Ironically, our artificial
and mechanical human cash system counts the most critical flows for life the
least…and counts the least critical structures the most….blinding cash systems
of private, immediate, obvious worlds deteriorating daily as nature grows
values…
Ironically, human cash counts
the most critical and hidden flow for human life the least, O2, photosynthetic
oxygen as O2 (not CO2, not CO3, not CO, not O3)….even though humans die within
minutes without fragile, hidden O2….
Ironically, human cash counts
the next most critical and hidden flow the next least, water as H2O….even
though humans die within days without H2O…
Ironically, cash counts the
next most critical and hidden flow the next least, rich, organic topsoil
production and soil-makers that grow our food….even though humans die within
months without food….
Ironically, human cash counts
the most deadly the most, bloody diamond and gold rocks, dirty energy spills
and dirty energy wars of, by, for carbon fossils that grow more and more
expensive and difficult to extract for a higher and higher cost of the
negative, sucking all down…..
…fricken fracken in the U.S.
thoughtlessly releasing GHG methane, dirty energy propaganda claiming deceitfully
that methane, “natural gas” is “clean” and “safe” when it is not….fricken
fracken for methane causing terror for U.S……cashflow for only 1% not counting
the fracken earthquakes, spills, sinkholes that consume entire communities,
tails to fall off of cows and information blackouts of, by, for dirty energy
profiteering at taxpayer expense, destroying continental drinking water
aquifers impossible to “clean up”…..adding to the massive numbers of methanes
released in a melting Arctic permafrost….throwing terrible costs onto the many
now and generations from now….methane 25 to 100 times more powerful as a
greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2 units) that have already baked and
drowned our planet. Which planet are the
deniers on? Who are we listening
to? Can the blinded learn to see the
logic impossible to count in cash?
My father did not earn medals
of heroism to see blinded cash profiteers of only 1%, tyranny that robs my
children and me, me and my childrens’ futures of health, “life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness” of any definition….
He fought to protect me, my
children and their childrens’ children, the innocent here, now and generations
from now….
As the most powerful storm in
human history hits land in the Philippines and in the future, I hope that our
nation’s leaders will listen to the 97% of climate scientists and to their own
children who have warned my nation about the catastrophic costs and
consequences of catastrophic sprawl and carbon emissions…….
…….of a) urban/industrial sprawl destroying
nature’s undervalued green, absorbent “sinks” and waterways that absorb carbons
cost-effectively successfully and b) pumping dirty carbon emissions
thoughtlessly, carelessly into our very thin and very fragile atmosphere and c)
the hidden links between causes and consequences, the inalienable web for all
life, the laws of nature and the laws of moral reciprocity of critical flows…..to
declare war on carbon emissions and war on destruction of green “sinks”………war
on cash-driven ignorance and apathy that threaten to destroy the future my
father promised me.
Can you help, please? We may soon lose our opportunities to change
the course of history.
Thanks!
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