[AGL] Bob Dylan show Dec. 2019

[Frances Morey]

My favorite poem of the day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5KQMXDiM4

Best,
Frances

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:41 AM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Make the Planet Great Again.*
> *"Our future is being taken away."*
> *Does Green mean less pollution?*
> *The oil people propaganda machine may be working overtime but there is a
> series on Al Jeezera that shows in pictures the problem with the green
> idea.*
>
> *Look at the electric car for one. It is touted as the vehicle of the
> future. But it uses a plethora of rare metals. Not to say gas-driven cars
> don't. The electric car isn't so innocent.*
>
> *You will find 175 pounds of copper in the car.*
> *Magnesium for the seats*
> *Yttrium for the sensors*
> *Tungsten for the chassis*
> *Neodymium in the headlights*
> *Lanthanum in the mirrors*
> *Germanium for night vision*
> *Ceram in the windscreen*
> *Just those batteries use a lot of rare metals. And over time those
> batteries will die and have to be thrown away or recycled.*
> *Plus you will need Bismuth and Tantatuim *
>
> *All these metals and compounds are rare metals. China has 75% of these
> metals. There are other sources of course where you find mines. Mines that
> are destroying the countryside around them.*
>
> *Mining causes disastrous pollution. Heavy metals are dumped into streams.
> There are millions of gallons of polluted wastewater, contaminated with
> Flourine, Mercury, and other heavy metals that are dumped or stored in
> ponds where the contaminates leach into the water table. *
>
> *The air suffers from dust created which is also saturated. The demand for
> copper has increased. Chuquicamata in Chie produced 470,000 tons last year
> alone from a mine that is a half-mile deep and 2 and a half miles wide. The
> scene is one of devastation. The mine uses millions of gallons of water in
> a desert where it hasn't recorded rain in 500 years. The closest city is a
> four-hour drive. The population of 200,000 suffer from lung disease. 10%
> have some sort of cardio problems or cancer due to heavy metal pollution.*
>
> *The demand for different kinds of metal increased by 25% just last year.*
>
> *A wind machine uses 20 tons of aluminum and 500 tons of steel plus copper
> and rare metals. According to some of the professors and experts on the
> problem, they do not see wind and solar as a solution. The mining causes
> more demand and more pollution of the landscape as well as the air. And
> added to that is that the devices wear out over time and have to be
> replaced. So far there has been little or no effort to recycle wind
> turbines or solar cells. They are just added to the landfill.*
>
> *Norway we are told is the leader in the world of using renewables. Their
> government ignores the ecological impact elsewhere since it doesn't happen
> in Norway.*
>
> *So as we turn toward green are we just causing a new disaster?*
> *It would seem so to me.*
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 4:56 AM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFyFmjsLzI
>>
>> I found this very recent Bob Dylan show by accident from just last year.
>>
>> It is like a Grateful Dead show which kinda grows on you. Check it out
>> if you dig Dylan.
>>
>
>
> --
> Charlie Loving
>
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