Google Earth - Hurricane Katrina Imagery
Hurricane Katrina Imagery The Google Earth team is working on adding imagery of the impact of Hurricane Katrina. We will be posting links to this imagery for viewing as "image overlays" in Google Earth.
Technology may not save the world from the inevitable forces of nature, and depending on which news report you happen to be tuned/buy into "Sponsored by Chevron, You're Friendly Neigborhood Dodge Dealer, and Delta Airlines ('We Love to Burn Oil and It Shows')" you may actually believe that Global Warming "may not truly be the cause of the ever increasing natural disasters taking place in greater force and in unequaled numbers." But technology can sure as hell tell you the truth about whats really happened and whats really happening because of our insistence that with "freedom" and "independence" comes justification for "selfishness" and "greed."
Greed?
Install Google Earth and download and view the images of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and then come and talk to me about how greed, or in the case of how it applies to this situation, your/our insistence that driving our own oil burners, by ourselves, where and whenever we damn well please has nothing to do with being greedy, and most certainly has nothing to do with the destruction caused by this "natural" disaster.
BTW... If you're brave enough to do this, don't blame me for the ear lashing you end up with. If you're stupid enough to both believe that I'm wrong and take me to task on it, then you most certainly deserve the response you will most definitely receive. And you're not going to like it... I promise.
One of the things that drives me nutts when I listen and watch people protest the war in Iraq is when I see these same people get back into their cars and drive away from the rally's against the war, not giving the slightest thought to the fact that the act of doing so is yet one more contribution to this exact war they are protesting. A war which, in part, is based on the fact that Iraq has oil, and we want oil.
Don't like the war in Iraq and would like to find an effective way to protest against it. Then stop driving your car and take the bus to work. Or find 4 other people in your neighborhood who feel the same way and carpool. Or better yet, get your ass on a bike and ride it to work. But don't cry that "Bush is responsible for crimes against humanity and should burn for what he's done" and then hop in your car to drive 1/2 mile to 7/11 for a Big Gulp and some Twinkies and claim "its not my fault, I didn't vote for him!" Um, pardon me twinkie face, but every time you turn the ignition on your'e voting; and with something much more powerful... you're dollars; and your lack of sense.
If the images of the Iraq war don't sicken you enough to find alternatives to your murdering and earth destroying habits, then whatever it takes for you to justify getting in your car tomorrow morning, starting it up, and driving to work in a 5 passenger car solo, maybe the images that are being added and updated to the Google Earth site on a regular basis might help you realize that maybe its time to "rethink" your transportation stategy. Maybe it won't... but it should.