Dear Kitty 1/20/08

Today I noticed once again that there are very few birds living in Los Angeles except for pidgeons and parrots, both invasive species. The signs are everywhere of a degraded environment. The oceans are unswimmable. The air makes an increasing percentage of the population sick. Water is becoming scarce. And that's just in the southland. In some countries in the world, most children in the world don't have access to clean water to drink; yet we let the water run incessantly to wash dishes, clean our bodies, water our lawns. Yet most folks seem to continue life as usual until life becomes untenable. Even then, no one seems to be too alarmed.

Perhaps this diary will be found at some point in the future, and it will be duly noted that someone grieved senseless wars, unthinking consumption of resources while at least half the humans on earth starve....