California? (Dream)

[helen99]

Last night I dreamed that my mother told me that dad was selling our houses and they and I were packing up and taking a plane to "California".

When I realized that they were going to take a plane rather than drive, because it would be "a forty-hour drive and we don't have time for that," I started screaming that I refuse to ever get on an airplane again in this lifetime. I also asked "what about rialian"? Where is aekiy going to live? But they said they'd have to find an alternative because, you see, we were going. I also asked about my job, but was told that none of that mattered. We were moving to California and that was that.

The whole prospect disturbed me much more than a deceased person trying to sell our houses.

California - I've always wished to somehow be a part of that hotbed of ideas where it all seems to start. I have also wished we would have some of that attitude here. But it also represents death - falling into the ocean. Secession from the union. The unknown. The jumping off point. California...

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

The fact that the major polluters don't care about the people who live on the coasts and islands is just one more indication that anyone could become "collateral damage" at any time. "We couldn't stop polluting, you see, because the internal combustion engine helps a lot of people live the lives they're used to. The coasts submerging is the price we pay".

It is a well-published fact that the water levels are rising, that the coast of Greenland is breaking up, and that island communities are submerging. But instead of treating this as the emergency it really is, and ceasing all pollution in order to reverse (not slow down, reverse) the effects of the past 100 years, they discredit and fire scientists who publish these findings, and then continue to deregulate pollution as much as possible.

Argh. Back to the drawing board, which consists of me trying to use my A/C and car less frequently (it get's horribly muggy in DC, and it's less trouble to take my car places).

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Major polluters don't care about anything, coastal or not, especially after having seen "The Inconvienient Truth"... We'll only be able to use the "ostrich" approach for so long before we won't have any choice.

And I know "muggy" full well, believe me, even if it seems rather fall-like at the moment.