Parting thoughts to a decade that could have been

[Louisiana1976]

Dissecting the last 10 years is like picking at an open wound. Once you start, you feel it almost necessary to do something to dress that wound, or perhaps it's simply time to provide for palliative care.

Looking back on all the lost opportunities to make the world better, each layer as it unfolds seems to reveal a new horror for us to confront.

Take the general state of our planet's environmental health: We're drowning in trash, as whirlpools of plastic garbage the size of small nations create massive dead zones in the ocean.

We continue on a path to poisoning ourselves with burning carbon, which results in acid rain, mercury in the food chain and causes tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year in the US.

Species are disappearing at alarming rates.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/31/820983/-Parting-thoughts-to-a-decade-that-could-have-been.-