Friday, May 15, 2015
Iowa Climate Statement 2015: Time for Action
Climate Statement of Iowa Scientists:
http://cgrer.uiowa.edu/files/cgrer.uiowa.edu/files/pdf_files/Iowa%20Climate%20Statement%202015%20Time%20for%20Action_May_11_2015_FINAL.pdf
http://cgrer.uiowa.edu/files/cgrer.uiowa.edu/files/pdf_files/Iowa%20Climate%20Statement%202015%20Time%20for%20Action_May_11_2015_FINAL.pdf
Iowa Climate Statement 2015: Time for Action
Over the past four years, researchers and educators at nearly every college and university in Iowa have produced annual statements to communicate in plain language the state of climate science and the impacts of climate change on Iowans. This process has been open to all of our state’s academic climate experts to ensure that our statements are factual. Climate change has been measured, and the integrity of the measurements has been accepted through review by thousands of scientists worldwide.
The upcoming Iowa caucuses provide Iowans with a unique opportunity to bring their questions into the national conversation about climate change. As presidential candidates come to our state to ask Iowans for their votes, we feel it is important to know how candidates use science to inform decisions. Therefore, we hope that all candidates will be asked and will answer at least the following question:
Iowa farmers and communities are already adapting to climate change, and 188 researchers and scientists at 39 Iowa colleges and universities have signed a statement warning that its effects are expected to get worse. What polices do you support to address this critical issue?
In support of this question, we share the following information:
Over the past four years, researchers and educators at nearly every college and university in Iowa have produced annual statements to communicate in plain language the state of climate science and the impacts of climate change on Iowans. This process has been open to all of our state’s academic climate experts to ensure that our statements are factual. Climate change has been measured, and the integrity of the measurements has been accepted through review by thousands of scientists worldwide.
The upcoming Iowa caucuses provide Iowans with a unique opportunity to bring their questions into the national conversation about climate change. As presidential candidates come to our state to ask Iowans for their votes, we feel it is important to know how candidates use science to inform decisions. Therefore, we hope that all candidates will be asked and will answer at least the following question:
Iowa farmers and communities are already adapting to climate change, and 188 researchers and scientists at 39 Iowa colleges and universities have signed a statement warning that its effects are expected to get worse. What polices do you support to address this critical issue?
In support of this question, we share the following information:
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Humans are adding heat‐trapping gases to the atmosphere. These gases are a major contributor to
climate change.
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Climate change is already having significant effects on Iowans economically, socially, and psychologically,
and these impacts are expected to intensify.
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As the climate warms, evaporation increases. During dry periods with little rain, increased evaporation
makes dry soils even drier, while during wet periods it adds even more moisture to the atmosphere. In
these ways, climate change may strengthen both droughts and floods. The recent sequence of extreme
rainfall years—flood events in 2008, 2010, and 2014 interrupted by the drought of 2012—illustrates the
Iowa impacts from enhanced evaporation. The emergence of years with both drought and flood, as in
2011 and 2013, is concerning.
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There is clear evidence that the frequency of intense rain has increased in Iowa over the past 50 years.
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Natural systems are responding to the increase in the global average temperature. The northward
expansion of species formerly restricted by a colder climate could disrupt natural ecosystems and
introduce new agricultural pests and diseases.
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The changes are also expected to lead to negative health effects for Iowans, including the direct impacts
of flooding, stresses on the heart and lungs, allergens that are more abundant and have a longer season,
and the spread of diseases carried by organisms like mosquitoes and ticks.
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If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, agriculture, human health, and economic stability will
be affected in new and dramatic ways.
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There are policies and practices that, if implemented, would help Iowans adapt to climate change in the
short term and avoid unmanageable consequences in the long term.
We recognize the important responsibility Iowans have in the process of vetting presidential candidates, and we encourage all Iowans to demand that political leaders ground their decisions in sound, peer‐reviewed science and ask them what specific policies they will advocate to address climate change in Iowa.
Signed by ‐
David Courard‐Hauri
Associate Professor
Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program
Drake University
Chris Anderson
Research Assistant Professor Assistant Director, ISU Climate Science Program
Iowa State University
David Courard‐Hauri
Associate Professor
Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program
Drake University
Chris Anderson
Research Assistant Professor Assistant Director, ISU Climate Science Program
Iowa State University
David Osterberg
Clinical Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Jerald Schnoor
Co‐Director
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research University of Iowa
Clinical Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Jerald Schnoor
Co‐Director
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research University of Iowa
Gene Takle
Director, ISU Climate Science Program Professor of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Yogesh Shah
Associate Dean
Department of Global Health Des Moines University
Director, ISU Climate Science Program Professor of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Yogesh Shah
Associate Dean
Department of Global Health Des Moines University
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Peter S. Thorne
Professor and Head
Occupational & Environmental Health, Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Ctr, College of Public Health University of Iowa
Neil Bernstein
Chair, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences
Mount Mercy University
Matt Abbott
Biology Professor
Des Moines Area Community College
Marc P. Armstrong
Professor and CLAS Collegiate Fellow Department of Geography and Sustainability Sciences
University of Iowa
Mark Aronson Department of Biology Scott Community College
Neil C. Aschliman Assistant Professor Biology Department St. Ambrose University
Richard G. Baker
Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Paul E. Bartelt Professor and Chair Department of Biology Waldorf College
William D. Beavis
Professor of Agronomy
Department of Agronomy and Plant Sciences Institute
Iowa State University
Philip W. Becraft
Professor of Genetics & Agronomy Genetic, Development and Cell Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Iowa State University
Russ Benedict
Professor of Biology
Director of Prairies for Agriculture Project Central College
Peter Berendzen
Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Bryson Bergerud
Biotechnology Coordinator
Iowa Central Community College
Professor and Head
Occupational & Environmental Health, Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Ctr, College of Public Health University of Iowa
Neil Bernstein
Chair, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences
Mount Mercy University
Matt Abbott
Biology Professor
Des Moines Area Community College
Marc P. Armstrong
Professor and CLAS Collegiate Fellow Department of Geography and Sustainability Sciences
University of Iowa
Mark Aronson Department of Biology Scott Community College
Neil C. Aschliman Assistant Professor Biology Department St. Ambrose University
Richard G. Baker
Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Paul E. Bartelt Professor and Chair Department of Biology Waldorf College
William D. Beavis
Professor of Agronomy
Department of Agronomy and Plant Sciences Institute
Iowa State University
Philip W. Becraft
Professor of Genetics & Agronomy Genetic, Development and Cell Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Iowa State University
Russ Benedict
Professor of Biology
Director of Prairies for Agriculture Project Central College
Peter Berendzen
Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Bryson Bergerud
Biotechnology Coordinator
Iowa Central Community College
Greg Carmichael
Co‐Director
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research University of Iowa
E. Arthur Bettis III
Academic Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Program, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Ryan Bezy
Assistant Professor of Biology
Dept. of Natural & Applied Sciences Mount Mercy University
Diane Birt
Distinguished Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and College of Human Sciences
Iowa State University
Gail A. Bishop
Professor of Microbiology & Internal Medicine, Director, Center for Immunology & Immune‐Based Diseases Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Andrea Bixler Associate Professor Department of Biology Clarke University
Amy Blair
Associate Professor Department of Biology St. Ambrose University
Garry R. Buettner
Professor
Free Radical and Radiation Biology Department of Radiation Oncology College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Anya Butt
Associate Professor of Biology Environmental Studies Program Central College
Beth E. Caissie
Assistant Professor Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
David G. Campbell
Professor of Biology and
Chair of Environmental Studies Department of Biology Grinnell College
Co‐Director
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research University of Iowa
E. Arthur Bettis III
Academic Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Program, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Ryan Bezy
Assistant Professor of Biology
Dept. of Natural & Applied Sciences Mount Mercy University
Diane Birt
Distinguished Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and College of Human Sciences
Iowa State University
Gail A. Bishop
Professor of Microbiology & Internal Medicine, Director, Center for Immunology & Immune‐Based Diseases Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Andrea Bixler Associate Professor Department of Biology Clarke University
Amy Blair
Associate Professor Department of Biology St. Ambrose University
Garry R. Buettner
Professor
Free Radical and Radiation Biology Department of Radiation Oncology College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Anya Butt
Associate Professor of Biology Environmental Studies Program Central College
Beth E. Caissie
Assistant Professor Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
David G. Campbell
Professor of Biology and
Chair of Environmental Studies Department of Biology Grinnell College
David A. Swenson
Associate Scientist
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ryan Carnahan
Associate Professor Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health University of Iowa
James Cheaney
Associate Professor of Biology Department of Science & Mathematics Ellsworth Community College
Silvia Cianzio
Professor
Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
Russell Ciochon
Director of Museum Studies Professor and Associate Chair Department of Anthropology University of Iowa
Ronald J. Cisar
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Iowa Western Community College
Elizabeth Collins
Science Instructor
Science Department
Iowa Central Community College
John Collins
Instructor
Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Alejandro Comellas
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Charles Connerly
Professor and Director
School of Urban and Regional Planning University of Iowa
James L. Cornette
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Iowa State University
Mary Kathryn Cowles
Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
Ryan Carnahan
Associate Professor Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health University of Iowa
James Cheaney
Associate Professor of Biology Department of Science & Mathematics Ellsworth Community College
Silvia Cianzio
Professor
Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
Russell Ciochon
Director of Museum Studies Professor and Associate Chair Department of Anthropology University of Iowa
Ronald J. Cisar
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Iowa Western Community College
Elizabeth Collins
Science Instructor
Science Department
Iowa Central Community College
John Collins
Instructor
Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Alejandro Comellas
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Charles Connerly
Professor and Director
School of Urban and Regional Planning University of Iowa
James L. Cornette
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Iowa State University
Mary Kathryn Cowles
Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
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Travis Cox
Co‐Director, Undergraduate Sustainable Living Program, Assistant Professor, Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Richard Cruse
Professor and Director of the Iowa Water Center
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Dennis Dahms
Professor
Quaternary Geochronology & Stratigraphy, Department of Geography University of Northern Iowa
Radford Davis
Associate Professor of Public Health Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State University
Thomas A. Davis
Professor of Biology
Division of Molecular and Life Sciences Loras College
John Dawson
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Science Kirkwood Community College
Robert L. De Haan
Chair, Department of Environmental Studies
Professor of Biology
Dordt College
Diane Debinski
Professor
Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Rhawn Denniston
Professor
Department of Geology
Chair, Environmental Studies Program Cornell College
Gary Donnermeyer
Biology Professor Emeritus Kirkwood Community College
Dale Easley
Professor of Geology
Department of Natural and Applied Sciences
University of Dubuque
Julie Ehresmann
Advanced Instructor, Science Science Department
Iowa Central Community College
Co‐Director, Undergraduate Sustainable Living Program, Assistant Professor, Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Richard Cruse
Professor and Director of the Iowa Water Center
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Dennis Dahms
Professor
Quaternary Geochronology & Stratigraphy, Department of Geography University of Northern Iowa
Radford Davis
Associate Professor of Public Health Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State University
Thomas A. Davis
Professor of Biology
Division of Molecular and Life Sciences Loras College
John Dawson
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Science Kirkwood Community College
Robert L. De Haan
Chair, Department of Environmental Studies
Professor of Biology
Dordt College
Diane Debinski
Professor
Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Rhawn Denniston
Professor
Department of Geology
Chair, Environmental Studies Program Cornell College
Gary Donnermeyer
Biology Professor Emeritus Kirkwood Community College
Dale Easley
Professor of Geology
Department of Natural and Applied Sciences
University of Dubuque
Julie Ehresmann
Advanced Instructor, Science Science Department
Iowa Central Community College
Kenneth Elgersma
Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Kamyar Enshayan
Director
Center for Energy & Environmental Education
University of Northern Iowa
Barry Ferm
Laboratory Coordinator Chemistry Department St. Ambrose University
R. William Field
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology,
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Brittany Flokstra
Instructor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Northern Iowa
Andrew A. Forbes
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Academic Co‐Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Program
University of Iowa
Johanna Foster
Associate Professor of Biology Biology Department Wartburg College
Laurence Fuortes
Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Laurie Furlong Professor
Biology Department Northwestern College
Lonnie Gamble
Co‐Director
Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Stratis Giannakouros
Assistant Director, Center for Sustainable Communities
Environmental Studies
Luther College
Jack Gittinger Professor
Science Education Simpson College
Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Kamyar Enshayan
Director
Center for Energy & Environmental Education
University of Northern Iowa
Barry Ferm
Laboratory Coordinator Chemistry Department St. Ambrose University
R. William Field
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology,
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Brittany Flokstra
Instructor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Northern Iowa
Andrew A. Forbes
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Academic Co‐Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Program
University of Iowa
Johanna Foster
Associate Professor of Biology Biology Department Wartburg College
Laurence Fuortes
Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Laurie Furlong Professor
Biology Department Northwestern College
Lonnie Gamble
Co‐Director
Sustainable Living Department Maharishi University of Management
Stratis Giannakouros
Assistant Director, Center for Sustainable Communities
Environmental Studies
Luther College
Jack Gittinger Professor
Science Education Simpson College
Charles E. Glatz
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering Iowa State University
Jenny Gernhart
Instructor, Science
Iowa Central Community College
Fredric Gerr
Professor
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Vicki F. Grassian
Wendell F. Miller Professor Departments of Chemistry & Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Iowa
David Grewell
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University
Bill Gutowski
Professor of Meteorology Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
Bill Harwood
Professor of Chemistry University of Northern Iowa
Mary Mincer Hansen
Adjunct Associate Professor College of Health Sciences and Global Health Department Des Moines University
Emily Heaton
Assistant Professor Biomass Crop Production Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
John R. Helms
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Biology and Chemistry Department Morningside College
Steve Hendrix
Professor, Department of Biology Director of Academics and Research, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
University of Iowa
Brian Hornbuckle
Associate Professor
Department of Agronomy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering Iowa State University
Jenny Gernhart
Instructor, Science
Iowa Central Community College
Fredric Gerr
Professor
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Vicki F. Grassian
Wendell F. Miller Professor Departments of Chemistry & Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Iowa
David Grewell
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University
Bill Gutowski
Professor of Meteorology Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
Bill Harwood
Professor of Chemistry University of Northern Iowa
Mary Mincer Hansen
Adjunct Associate Professor College of Health Sciences and Global Health Department Des Moines University
Emily Heaton
Assistant Professor Biomass Crop Production Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
John R. Helms
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Biology and Chemistry Department Morningside College
Steve Hendrix
Professor, Department of Biology Director of Academics and Research, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
University of Iowa
Brian Hornbuckle
Associate Professor
Department of Agronomy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
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Keri C. Hornbuckle
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Engineering
University of Iowa
Stephen Howell
Professor
Plant Sciences Institute
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Iowa State University
Mohammad Iqbal
Professor of Geology & Environmental Science
Department of Earth Science University of Northern Iowa
Erin Irish
Associate Professor of Biology University of Iowa
Laura Jackson
Director, Tallgrass Prairie Center Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Samuel W. James
Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Iowa
Brandi Janssen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
John Jorstad
Science Instructor
Western Iowa Tech Community College
Craig Just
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Kristopher J. Keuseman Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mount Mercy University
Frederick Kirschenmann
Distinguished Fellow
Department of Religion and Philosophy Iowa State University
Andrew Kitchen
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Iowa
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Engineering
University of Iowa
Stephen Howell
Professor
Plant Sciences Institute
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Iowa State University
Mohammad Iqbal
Professor of Geology & Environmental Science
Department of Earth Science University of Northern Iowa
Erin Irish
Associate Professor of Biology University of Iowa
Laura Jackson
Director, Tallgrass Prairie Center Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Samuel W. James
Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Iowa
Brandi Janssen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
John Jorstad
Science Instructor
Western Iowa Tech Community College
Craig Just
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Kristopher J. Keuseman Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mount Mercy University
Frederick Kirschenmann
Distinguished Fellow
Department of Religion and Philosophy Iowa State University
Andrew Kitchen
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Iowa
Erwin Klaas
Professor Emeritus of Animal Ecology Natural Resources Ecology Management Iowa State University
Joel N. Kline
Professor of Medicine & Occupational and Environmental Health
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Witold Krajewski
Director, Iowa Flood Center,
Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering
University of Iowa
Dennis Lavrov
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
Iowa State University
Hans‐Joachim Lehmler
Associate Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health University of Iowa
Louis Licht
Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Matt Liebman
Professor and H.A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Ronald Lindblom
Science Instructor, VESTA Coordinator, Outdoor Learning Lab Manager Northeast Iowa Community College
Marc Linderman
Associate Professor
Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences University of Iowa
Gabriele Ludewig
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health University of Iowa
Charles F. Lynch
Professor
Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health University of Iowa
J. Elizabeth Maas
Instructor
Math/Science Department Kirkwood Community College
Professor Emeritus of Animal Ecology Natural Resources Ecology Management Iowa State University
Joel N. Kline
Professor of Medicine & Occupational and Environmental Health
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Witold Krajewski
Director, Iowa Flood Center,
Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering
University of Iowa
Dennis Lavrov
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
Iowa State University
Hans‐Joachim Lehmler
Associate Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health University of Iowa
Louis Licht
Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Matt Liebman
Professor and H.A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Ronald Lindblom
Science Instructor, VESTA Coordinator, Outdoor Learning Lab Manager Northeast Iowa Community College
Marc Linderman
Associate Professor
Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences University of Iowa
Gabriele Ludewig
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health University of Iowa
Charles F. Lynch
Professor
Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health University of Iowa
J. Elizabeth Maas
Instructor
Math/Science Department Kirkwood Community College
Mark T. Madsen
Professor
Department of Radiology University of Iowa
Amy Madsen‐Smith Biology Department Clinton Community College
Sunil Malapati
Associate Professor of Biochemistry Clarke University
Dave May
Professor
Department of Geography University of Northern Iowa
Paul Mayes
Professor of Biology‐Retired Eastern Iowa Community College
M. Patrick McAdams
Emeritus Faculty
Division of Health and Life Science William Penn University
Katherine McCarville
Associate Professor of Geosciences School of Science and Mathematics Upper Iowa University
Paul B. McCray
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
David McCullough
Professor of Biology, Co‐coordinator Environmental Science and Studies Wartburg College
Paulina Mena
Assistant Professor of Biology Central College
James Merchant
Professor Emeritus
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Laura C. Merrick
Lecturer
Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
Tammy Mildenstein Department of Biology Cornell College
Kenneth J. Moore
Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
Department of Radiology University of Iowa
Amy Madsen‐Smith Biology Department Clinton Community College
Sunil Malapati
Associate Professor of Biochemistry Clarke University
Dave May
Professor
Department of Geography University of Northern Iowa
Paul Mayes
Professor of Biology‐Retired Eastern Iowa Community College
M. Patrick McAdams
Emeritus Faculty
Division of Health and Life Science William Penn University
Katherine McCarville
Associate Professor of Geosciences School of Science and Mathematics Upper Iowa University
Paul B. McCray
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
David McCullough
Professor of Biology, Co‐coordinator Environmental Science and Studies Wartburg College
Paulina Mena
Assistant Professor of Biology Central College
James Merchant
Professor Emeritus
Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Laura C. Merrick
Lecturer
Department of Agronomy Iowa State University
Tammy Mildenstein Department of Biology Cornell College
Kenneth J. Moore
Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University
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Peter L. Moore
Adjunct Assistant Professor Natural Resources Ecology & Management
Iowa State University
Marian Muste
Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor IIHR‐Hydroscience & Engineering University of Iowa
Connie Mutel
Senior Science Writer IIHR‐Hydroscience & Engineering University of Iowa
Robert Mutel
Professor of Astronomy
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa
William M. Nauseef
Director, Inflammation Program Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Maurine Neiman Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Iowa
Marit Nilsen‐Hamilton
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
Fred Ochs
Professor of Chemistry and Earth Science Kirkwood Community College
Steve L. O’Kane, Jr. Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Resmiye Oral
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Director, Child Protection Program University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Patrick T. O'Shaughnessy
Professor
Director, Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety Occupational & Environmental Health University of Iowa
Dale W. Olson
Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of Northern Iowa
Adjunct Assistant Professor Natural Resources Ecology & Management
Iowa State University
Marian Muste
Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor IIHR‐Hydroscience & Engineering University of Iowa
Connie Mutel
Senior Science Writer IIHR‐Hydroscience & Engineering University of Iowa
Robert Mutel
Professor of Astronomy
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa
William M. Nauseef
Director, Inflammation Program Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Maurine Neiman Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Iowa
Marit Nilsen‐Hamilton
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
Fred Ochs
Professor of Chemistry and Earth Science Kirkwood Community College
Steve L. O’Kane, Jr. Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Resmiye Oral
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Director, Child Protection Program University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Patrick T. O'Shaughnessy
Professor
Director, Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety Occupational & Environmental Health University of Iowa
Dale W. Olson
Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of Northern Iowa
Corrine Peek‐Asa
Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Maria Perez
Adjunct Instructor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Reuben J. Peters
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
Laura Peterson
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies Program and Department of Chemistry
Luther College
Gary Phillips
Professor
Environmental Studies Department Iowa Lakes Community College
Jeffrey T. Ploegstra
Assistant Professor of Biology Dordt College
Jim Raich
Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Mark Rasmussen
Director
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University
Mark Reagan
Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Ryan Rehmeier
Associate Professor and Chair Department of Biology and Environmental Science Simpson College
Rachel Reimer
Associate Professor
Chairperson and Program Director Master of Public Health Program College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
Peter Reilly
Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering Iowa State University
Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Maria Perez
Adjunct Instructor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Reuben J. Peters
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
Laura Peterson
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies Program and Department of Chemistry
Luther College
Gary Phillips
Professor
Environmental Studies Department Iowa Lakes Community College
Jeffrey T. Ploegstra
Assistant Professor of Biology Dordt College
Jim Raich
Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Mark Rasmussen
Director
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University
Mark Reagan
Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
Ryan Rehmeier
Associate Professor and Chair Department of Biology and Environmental Science Simpson College
Rachel Reimer
Associate Professor
Chairperson and Program Director Master of Public Health Program College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
Peter Reilly
Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering Iowa State University
Michael Renner
Professor
Environmental Science and Policy Program
Drake University
Larry Robertson
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Jennifer G. Robinson
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Medicine, Director, Prevention Intervention Center,
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Nilda E. Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Diane Rohlman
Associate Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Thomas Rosburg
Professor
Department of Biology Biodiversity Center and Herbarium Drake University
Amber D. Ruskell‐Lamer
Natural Sciences Instructor Department of Math and Sciences Southeastern Community College
Ann E. Russell
Adjunct Associate Professor Natural Resources Ecology & Management
Iowa State University
James B. Sacco
Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Drake University
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Des Moines Area Community College
Aliasger K. Salem
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
College of Pharmacy
University of Iowa
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Biology Instructor
Southeastern Community College
Professor
Environmental Science and Policy Program
Drake University
Larry Robertson
Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Jennifer G. Robinson
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Medicine, Director, Prevention Intervention Center,
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Nilda E. Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
Diane Rohlman
Associate Professor
Occupational & Environmental Health College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Thomas Rosburg
Professor
Department of Biology Biodiversity Center and Herbarium Drake University
Amber D. Ruskell‐Lamer
Natural Sciences Instructor Department of Math and Sciences Southeastern Community College
Ann E. Russell
Adjunct Associate Professor Natural Resources Ecology & Management
Iowa State University
James B. Sacco
Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Drake University
Melanie H. Sadeghpour Professor/Program Chair, Environmental Science
Des Moines Area Community College
Aliasger K. Salem
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
College of Pharmacy
University of Iowa
J. Michael Sallee
Biology Instructor
Southeastern Community College
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Professor
Department of Biology Coe College
Michelle Scherer
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Lisa Schulte Moore
Associate Professor
Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University
Timothy M. Sesterhenn
Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology and Chemistry Morningside College
Paul M. Shand
Interim Head
Physics Department University of Northern Iowa
David A. Shealer
Associate Professor of Biology Loras College
William W. Simpkins Professor and Chair Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
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Biology Instructor
Math, Science and Health Department Southwestern Community College
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Professor of Biology and Advocate Tallgrass Prairie Center
University of Northern Iowa
Tex A. Sordahl Professor of Biology Department of Biology Luther College
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Martin St. Clair
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Coe College
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Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
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Associate Professor
Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology and Chemistry Morningside College
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Interim Head
Physics Department University of Northern Iowa
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Associate Professor of Biology Loras College
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Iowa State University
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Biology Instructor
Math, Science and Health Department Southwestern Community College
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Professor of Biology and Advocate Tallgrass Prairie Center
University of Northern Iowa
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Professor
Department of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Coe College
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Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Iowa
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Professor
Center for Energy & Environmental Education
University of Northern Iowa
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Iowa Western Community College
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management
Iowa State University
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Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Drake University
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Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Iowa
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Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
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Associate Professor
Biology
Des Moines Area Community College
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Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
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College of Engineering
University of Iowa
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Professor
Center for Energy & Environmental Education
University of Northern Iowa
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Instructor, Biology, Anatomy & Physiology Biological & Chemical Sciences Dept.
Iowa Western Community College
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Professor
Biology and Chemistry Department Morningside College
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management
Iowa State University
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Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Drake University
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Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Iowa
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Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
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Associate Professor
Biology
Des Moines Area Community College
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Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
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Associate Professor of Geology Cornell College
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Department of Natural and Applied Sciences
Mount Mercy University
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Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics Director, IIHR ‐ Hydroscience and Engineering
University of Iowa
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Biology & Environmental Science Biology Department
Central College
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Department of Internal Medicine,
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Iowa Valley Community College
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Environmental Health Division University of Northern Iowa
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Mount Mercy University
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University of Iowa
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Biology & Environmental Science Biology Department
Central College
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Department of Internal Medicine,
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Professor of Biology Department of Biology University of Northern Iowa
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Professor
Biology & Agriculture
Iowa Valley Community College
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Professor and Program Director Department of Science and Math Indian Hills Community College
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Associate Professor Department of Chemistry University of Iowa
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Environmental Health Division University of Northern Iowa
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Des Moines University
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Photosynthetic living vegetation can activate a broken water cycle, part of an amazing nexus of watershed, water, energy of our sun to produce critical flows for life enough
Plant trees and vegetation, vision and wisdom to reactivate
a broken water cycle....enough to heal a broken world:
We need a more logical economy to grow heaven instead of causing hell please thanks
We need a more logical economy to grow heaven instead of causing hell please thanks
By Holly M. Berkwotiz, BA, RHIT
Drought areas: Trees
and forests kick-start a dying water cycle into more functional living systems
when our lands lose their ability to pull water from deep under the soil and
recharge our atmosphere with water moisture and oxygen as critical but hidden
and balancing O2 =CO2, critical cycles that balance critical flows for life enough for many to
learn to smile.....critical flows and producers of life and land that life and land need to survive...to thrive again…..that clean up human
messes.....to keep earth's living systems functional and productive enough to
satisfy basic critical needs of the many.....every successful system needing
nature's amazing logical structure, a logical function, critical flows far
beyond the obvious to connect the disconnected to activate life and land to
produce enough critical flows and positive outcomes enough to fill in hungry
voids of the negative, to lift all up to light enough to win....life's critical
flows and productivity of nature's genius and logic impossible to count in
human cash.
Any living system balances critical flows to survive and thrive, to grow upwards enough to produce abundant riches enough to count in cash.
But our human cash system limits our counts to mechanical, artificial divides of human cash....human cashflow floods that crush the ability of life and land to grow enough to produce. So those that limit their counts to cash actually destroy their "economy" .....because humans need to count more than cash numbers to produce a more functional whole, for life and earth to function enough to carry humans into a future.
Any living system balances critical flows to survive and thrive, to grow upwards enough to produce abundant riches enough to count in cash.
But our human cash system limits our counts to mechanical, artificial divides of human cash....human cashflow floods that crush the ability of life and land to grow enough to produce. So those that limit their counts to cash actually destroy their "economy" .....because humans need to count more than cash numbers to produce a more functional whole, for life and earth to function enough to carry humans into a future.
If humans can cause droughts, floods,
desertification......then humans can also reverse those negative processes by
activating nature's hidden genetic potentials that humans need to produce oases
that will grow in value through time to renew our Gardens for Eden enough to produce
abundant and inspiring and healing critical flows of O2=CO2 cycles of
respiration and photosynthesis that inspire life's ability to circulate water
as H2O everywhere, far beyond the obvious in water cycles that have the amazing
power to recharge a dead or dying system if managed intelligently, reaching far
beyond the obvious with vision and wisdom enough to understand that humans do
not own all facts or reality.....that humans depend on nature's amazing genetic
potentials, geniuss far beyond the obvious to produce the critical flows and
functional, whole, positive systems far beyond the obvious, living cycles of
critical flows and functions impossible to count in cash that humans need to
produce enough critical flows to keep humans alive day to day and minute to
minute.
We cannot afford to limit our counts to the obvious,
immediate, everyday, privatizing private self driven by deadly cashflow floods
that crush life and land and many and futures of the many, even the private self.
We cannot afford leaders that limit counts of our public
worlds to private, privatized, immediate, obvious, negative, deregulating counts of privatized bank
accounts of by for deadly cashflow floods that crush life, land and
productivity of critical flows on earth that any human needs to survive day to
day and minute to minute....
We need our civil codes of a constitutional and participatory, even messy democracy to harvest the amazing ideas and perceptions of the many enough to protect the innocent from a cash-driven 1% that limit our counts to mechanical numbers that crush life and land and earth.
We need to count more than cash to harvest nature's amazing productivity of critical flows that enable life on earth to grow and flourish enough to share abundance freely enough for a cash-driven 1% to manufacture privatized profits on a public infrastructure foundation built by many.
We need our civil codes of a constitutional and participatory, even messy democracy to harvest the amazing ideas and perceptions of the many enough to protect the innocent from a cash-driven 1% that limit our counts to mechanical numbers that crush life and land and earth.
We need to count more than cash to harvest nature's amazing productivity of critical flows that enable life on earth to grow and flourish enough to share abundance freely enough for a cash-driven 1% to manufacture privatized profits on a public infrastructure foundation built by many.
We need to reevaluate Ronald Reagan's claims that a
cash-driven 1% at the top of mechanical and artificial pyramid schemes of by
for only 1% will cause "wealth" to "trickle down" for the
many to capture and spend. We need to
reach far beyond the obvious to define our word, "economy" as more
than mechanical, artificial, robotic, autonomic counts of cash in privatized
bank accounts of only 1% that crush life and land. We need to count more than privatized,
immediate, obvious, cash-driven bank accounts that crush life and land and
public worlds and their own future.
We need to reach far beyond the obvious to discover the amazing wonders of nature's inalienable, indivisible web of critical flows and productivity for life's amazing outcomes far beyond the obvious that humans need to grow abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.....because we need nature's productivity of critical flows to inspire us to connect with life enough to glow.
We need to count more than human counts of cash because humans limit counts to maximize human cashflow flood numbers into privatized, immediate, obvious or not-so-obvious bank accounts limited to a cash-driven 1%......
We need to reach far beyond the obvious to discover the amazing wonders of nature's inalienable, indivisible web of critical flows and productivity for life's amazing outcomes far beyond the obvious that humans need to grow abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.....because we need nature's productivity of critical flows to inspire us to connect with life enough to glow.
We need to count more than human counts of cash because humans limit counts to maximize human cashflow flood numbers into privatized, immediate, obvious or not-so-obvious bank accounts limited to a cash-driven 1%......
But a cash-driven 1% continue to limit our counts to
mechanical, artificial counts of cash that crush to divide to count and count
to divide to conquer to crush the competition, the other, the diverse, the
non+same flows and functions of life and land far beyond the obvious.
But life shares to survive, function, produce and to thrive, to grow upwards enough to grow critical flows enough to satisfy basic critical needs, wants, desires, dreams of the many, of life and land on earth. That is heaven impossible to count in numeric and mechanical rates counts of cash of metal coins and speculation that crush life and land and outcomes.
Humans need to count more than private cash numbers, private
quantities of numbers of human cash that crush nature's ability to grow
critical flows of oxygen as O2, water as H2O, rich, organic topsoil and
soil+makers to grow food and shelter enough to keep humans on earth alive day
to day and minute to minute.
Still some just don't get it....because most humans stuck
inside thick, linear urban walls and barriers of concrete and steel blind their selves, see only the obvious, the immediate, linear and
electrical walls and barriers of boxes and crates and divides of humans urban
cities that confine so many, artificial divides and chaos that cause human
systems to crack and disintegrate through time, losing the ability to supply
safe, affordable flows to the many trapped inside, causing chaos.....human
cash-driven cities erecting thick, impermeable walls and barriers and hate that
block access for any to safe, affordable, free, critical flows from nature's
amazing productivity and wonders far beyond the obvious of only one private, immediate, obvious
now....wonders of nature that clean up human messes.
A cash-driven 1% have consistently blocked access for the
many to critical flows of photosynthetic O2 to breathe, rich, green watersheds filtering and cooling H2O to drink, rich, organic topsoil that the many need to
grow food to eat and shelter to keep each safe to survive day to day and minute to minute...and to clean
up human messes......because a cash-driven 1% blind their own selves and many
to the terrifying costs and consequences of cash-driven actions that destroy
the many and the self far beyond the obvious of only one immediate now....a
cash-driven 1% blinding US to the catastrophic costs caused by a cash-driven 1%
to block actions to hold a cash-driven 1% accountable for their actions.....a
cash-driven 1% causing destruction of the many and the self and their own
children's future. Unbelievable.
The evidence has become overwhelming in our cash-driven 20th century that a cash-driven 1% have conspired to block public access to critical flows of critical resources such as O2, H2O, soil productivity, to safe food, to safe shelter...and to throw costs of unacceptable, immoral risks onto the many unsuspecting at public taxpayer expense....while destroying their own childrens' futures....their own private future.....a cash-driven 0.0001% conspiring to build spaceships with taxpayer dollars to escape the hell they have caused on earth when it become unlivable.
Prevention pays....and humans need nature to heal a broken world, to produce positives enough to lift the many up to light enough to fill in hungry voids of the negative.....rich, green productive abundance of absorbent, green buffer strips along our diverse, green watersheds that protect us from our selves........that prevent flooding and drought.....and lift human worlds up to heaven.
For thousands of years, cashflow floods of cash-driven urban castles and cities have crushed the soil and life of nature's genius surrounding human pyramids, castles and cities as the urban forces of the kinetic expanded farther and farther, smothering fragile potentials of fragile green, soils and sprouts.... to crush life and land of by for privatized cash profiteering of by for cashflow floods flowing into privatized accounts for only one cash-driven 1%....destroying the ability of the soils and native vegetation surrounding human cities to produce critical flows of breathable oxygen as O2, drinkable water as H2O, rich, organic topsoil and soil+makers that grow food and shelter enough to keep humans inside urban walls alive day to day and minute to minute......so human populations inside the bowels of thick walls and barriers have had difficulty finding enough critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter......critical flows that can cause calm and peace for many......critical flows blocked and contaminated and ruined by thick urban walls, critical flows produced freely by nature far from the obvious that disintegrate into toxic and anaerobic substances that cause harm for living organisms when contacting walls and dirt and toxics of our cities.....causing distress and stress and hunger and anger and violence in the many desperate to satisfy basic critical needs in our cites that grow dirtier and more chaotic, disintegrating through time into negative cyclones downward as cashflow floods crush life and land and the many we need to change the course of history.
But causes and effects get lost in the chaos. We need real scientists and artists, even children able and willing to reach far beyond the obvious to find the amazing wonders of nature that can give us the hope and tools we need to heal a broken world......to intervene enough to change the course of human history from a deadly tailspin downward into a more positive course upwards, toward abundant productivity of nature's hidden genetic potentials nurtured enough to produce abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough for All 100% to share....even with the cash-driven 1%....
The evidence has become overwhelming in our cash-driven 20th century that a cash-driven 1% have conspired to block public access to critical flows of critical resources such as O2, H2O, soil productivity, to safe food, to safe shelter...and to throw costs of unacceptable, immoral risks onto the many unsuspecting at public taxpayer expense....while destroying their own childrens' futures....their own private future.....a cash-driven 0.0001% conspiring to build spaceships with taxpayer dollars to escape the hell they have caused on earth when it become unlivable.
Prevention pays....and humans need nature to heal a broken world, to produce positives enough to lift the many up to light enough to fill in hungry voids of the negative.....rich, green productive abundance of absorbent, green buffer strips along our diverse, green watersheds that protect us from our selves........that prevent flooding and drought.....and lift human worlds up to heaven.
For thousands of years, cashflow floods of cash-driven urban castles and cities have crushed the soil and life of nature's genius surrounding human pyramids, castles and cities as the urban forces of the kinetic expanded farther and farther, smothering fragile potentials of fragile green, soils and sprouts.... to crush life and land of by for privatized cash profiteering of by for cashflow floods flowing into privatized accounts for only one cash-driven 1%....destroying the ability of the soils and native vegetation surrounding human cities to produce critical flows of breathable oxygen as O2, drinkable water as H2O, rich, organic topsoil and soil+makers that grow food and shelter enough to keep humans inside urban walls alive day to day and minute to minute......so human populations inside the bowels of thick walls and barriers have had difficulty finding enough critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter......critical flows that can cause calm and peace for many......critical flows blocked and contaminated and ruined by thick urban walls, critical flows produced freely by nature far from the obvious that disintegrate into toxic and anaerobic substances that cause harm for living organisms when contacting walls and dirt and toxics of our cities.....causing distress and stress and hunger and anger and violence in the many desperate to satisfy basic critical needs in our cites that grow dirtier and more chaotic, disintegrating through time into negative cyclones downward as cashflow floods crush life and land and the many we need to change the course of history.
But causes and effects get lost in the chaos. We need real scientists and artists, even children able and willing to reach far beyond the obvious to find the amazing wonders of nature that can give us the hope and tools we need to heal a broken world......to intervene enough to change the course of human history from a deadly tailspin downward into a more positive course upwards, toward abundant productivity of nature's hidden genetic potentials nurtured enough to produce abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough for All 100% to share....even with the cash-driven 1%....
We need leaders of vision and wisdom instead able and
willing to reach far beyond the obvious to count more than human cash enough to discover and to try to understand
scientific literacy, to detect new patterns and links between cause and effect enough to prevent negatives and grow positives..... enough to dig to understand amazing wonders of nature
impossible to count in mechanical counts of human cash.....impossible to count
in cashflow floods that crush wonders of nature, that crush ability of nature
to produce critical flows such as O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter freely enough to
keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.
We cannot afford privatizing and deregulating so-called "public representatives" in Congress that are not..... and in statehouses and city halls and school boards that claim proudly that they "are not scientists" while dismantling and destroying critical flows of public information and resources and scientific facts that have grown out of centuries of public sharing of critical information of by for producing a more positive future of, by, for All 100%.....even a cash-driven 1%.....of by for growing heaven on earth instead of causing hell.
We need to hold the cash-driven 1% in my US Congress accountable for the damage they have done, are doing and plan to do enough to stop the damage.....to demand that they earn the obscene privatized profits and obscene taxpayer subsidies that should have been spent on a safer, more affordable Renewable Energy Economy instead, to harvest free energy from our sun and wind:
Solar energy could power all energy needs on earth x 11,000.
Wind energy could power all energy needs on earth numerous times.
Water and waves also.
Have the cash-driven 1% of by for profits for a dirty dead energy economy conspired to block our public access in America to the free and abundant critical flows of energy that could easily lift millions, billions out of poverty enough to grow heaven on earth....instead of causing hell?
We cannot afford those that value deadly cashflow floods of by for privatized bank accounts of only one obvious now of by for only 1% that crush life and land and earth ....that crush nature's critical but hidden economic capital, critical hidden genetic potentials, genius impossible to count in cash far beyond the obvious, that any need to survive day to day and minute to minute.
We cannot afford privatizing and deregulating so-called "public representatives" in Congress that are not..... and in statehouses and city halls and school boards that claim proudly that they "are not scientists" while dismantling and destroying critical flows of public information and resources and scientific facts that have grown out of centuries of public sharing of critical information of by for producing a more positive future of, by, for All 100%.....even a cash-driven 1%.....of by for growing heaven on earth instead of causing hell.
We need to hold the cash-driven 1% in my US Congress accountable for the damage they have done, are doing and plan to do enough to stop the damage.....to demand that they earn the obscene privatized profits and obscene taxpayer subsidies that should have been spent on a safer, more affordable Renewable Energy Economy instead, to harvest free energy from our sun and wind:
Solar energy could power all energy needs on earth x 11,000.
Wind energy could power all energy needs on earth numerous times.
Water and waves also.
Have the cash-driven 1% of by for profits for a dirty dead energy economy conspired to block our public access in America to the free and abundant critical flows of energy that could easily lift millions, billions out of poverty enough to grow heaven on earth....instead of causing hell?
We cannot afford those that value deadly cashflow floods of by for privatized bank accounts of only one obvious now of by for only 1% that crush life and land and earth ....that crush nature's critical but hidden economic capital, critical hidden genetic potentials, genius impossible to count in cash far beyond the obvious, that any need to survive day to day and minute to minute.
We need a more logical economy to grow heaven instead of
causing hell.
Our English word root, "eco-" as in "eco+nomic" and as in "eco+logic" means "house" or "oikos" in Greek.....but not every house nurtures those within. Some houses, cash-driven houses crush and destroy those within, even the private self, sucking all down easy, cheap, quick as a tyrant. Humans need to nurture nature's hidden genetic potentials, genius in every living cell on earth, every seed, seedling, soil, self to enable life to reach up toward light of our sun enough to produce abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough to enable any to find health, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" impossible to count in cash.
We need to count more than cash to survive and thrive.
Our English word root, "eco-" as in "eco+nomic" and as in "eco+logic" means "house" or "oikos" in Greek.....but not every house nurtures those within. Some houses, cash-driven houses crush and destroy those within, even the private self, sucking all down easy, cheap, quick as a tyrant. Humans need to nurture nature's hidden genetic potentials, genius in every living cell on earth, every seed, seedling, soil, self to enable life to reach up toward light of our sun enough to produce abundant riches, critical flows, blessings enough to enable any to find health, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" impossible to count in cash.
We need to count more than cash to survive and thrive.
We don't need a cash-driven 1% in my US Congress that manufactures fake
sound-bytes of "I'm not a scientist" so I have the right to destroy
your future, my own children's future, my own future illogically......spending millions, billions of dollars, even taxpayer dollars to deny responsibility for manufacturing pushing dead energy addictions onto millions in America, pushing our urban centers into addictions to artificial consumption of cashflow floods of by for dead energy addictions that are killing us....that are killing earth as our Arctic and Antarctica continue to melt rapidly of by for the cash-driven dead energy industry to loot oil and gas from polar regions of the Arctic of by for privatized cash profiteering for only 1%......throwing terrifying costs onto their own children's futures, onto their own futures as they suck all down into catastrophic climate heating that is destroying human civilization of the 21st century easy, cheap, quick.....while pretending they don't see.
That's called "racketeering" and Republican President Teddy Roosevelt stood up against the robber barons that tried to rob America's future at the beginning of the 20th century.
It's time for America's Republican party to stand up and question and hold the cash-driven 1% that have hijacked their political party....to demand accountability and remorse for the deadly costs and consequences of emissions of dead energy for the last 150 years enough to change the course of our common history from a tailspin downward into a more positive course upwards to regain any hope of rescuing our human cities and human civilization from a cruel cash-driven 1% that have conspired to destroy our earth's life's nature.....of by for a cash-driven bank account of only one obvious now of only 1%....while crushing life on earth.
That's called "racketeering" and Republican President Teddy Roosevelt stood up against the robber barons that tried to rob America's future at the beginning of the 20th century.
It's time for America's Republican party to stand up and question and hold the cash-driven 1% that have hijacked their political party....to demand accountability and remorse for the deadly costs and consequences of emissions of dead energy for the last 150 years enough to change the course of our common history from a tailspin downward into a more positive course upwards to regain any hope of rescuing our human cities and human civilization from a cruel cash-driven 1% that have conspired to destroy our earth's life's nature.....of by for a cash-driven bank account of only one obvious now of only 1%....while crushing life on earth.
We need a more logical economy, a more ecological economy to produce positives enough....and we need leaders able and willing to reach far beyond the obvious of cash-driven and
destructive human walls and barriers of cash-driven human cities....enough to
reach far beyond the obvious to learn to grow heaven on earth instead of
causing hell....to understand and nurture nature's amazing abilities to produce
critical flows enough to activate hidden genetic potentials of all living
cells, seeds, seedlings, soils on earth enough to grow heaven on earth for all
to share freely.....enough to stop causing hell on earth.
We can't afford for a cash-driven and blinded, self-centered
1% to cause hell on earth to suck all down into the negative easy, cheap,
quick.....a cash-driven 1% that blames my god for the hell they have caused of by for privatized
cash profiteering for only one private bank account now of only one obvious now
that blinds us and blocks our ability to survive as a person, as a nation, as
an earth that needs to breathe also.
We demand accountability....counting more than privatized, immediate, obvious, mechanical rates of cash of by for private bank accounts of only 1%....at public taxpayer expense. Instead:
We demand accountability....counting more than privatized, immediate, obvious, mechanical rates of cash of by for private bank accounts of only 1%....at public taxpayer expense. Instead:
We need leaders of vision and wisdom able and willing to
grow heaven on earth, instead.....and inalienable, indivisible, uncountable, interwoven integrity of living systems of flows of many diverse directions and functions of by for earth's health and survival, native trees, forests,
prairies, grasslands, absorbent, lush, rich green watersheds and airsheds,
critically important tools for survival on earth:
* balancing critical flows and productivity of by for life
on earth enough for life on earth to survive the Anthropocene that humans have
caused, life producing and balancing critical flows between all living cells
and systems on earth to enable each to function enough for the whole to
survive....critical productivity and critical flows that connect all living
cells on earth, structures, functions, critical flows, productivity of critical
positive outcomes impossible to count in terms of mechanical, artificial metal
coins of human cash....
* balancing criitcal flows of critical supplies impossible
to count in human cash yet essential for balancing moral laws of reciprocity
that enable all life on earth to find "liberty and justice for All"
free from cash-driven tyranny of inequality and digital divides, steep cliffs
of urban boxes that erect thick walls and barriers of the artificial to keep
the private self in and the other out....while also blocking critical flows
needed by the self inside to consume....starving the self of O2 and H2O and
soil and food and shelter....forcing the private self to assume erroneously
that the private self needs to take from the other to get for one private self
and to push the other down to lift the private self up and that privatized cash
profiteering inside linear walls justifies all....
* reaching far beyond the obvious enough to ask critical
questions, to question absolutes of thick, dense walls and definitions.....to
question enough to discover the amazing ironies of by for life such as the fact
that "opposites attract" meaning that opposites connect the
disconnected enough to activate hidden genetic potentials for All 100% to
produce positive outcomes enough to lift all up to light enough to survive and
thrive and share freely enough with others to cause heaven on earth instead of
hell....
* challenging tyrants that cause hell on earth to grow
heaven instead (because tyrants limit counts to absolutes of immediate and the
obvious to self-destruct now and through thousands of years of human
history)....while tiny seeds, seedlings, soils, green produce critical,
infinite flows of by for water and air and life growing positives, blessings,
trees and ancient forests, watersheds and tiny living cells grow positives
enough to lift all on earth up to light enough to survive and to thrive now and
generations from now...
* producing enough breathable O2 to activate life of animals
and entire living systems on earth that hold our soils intact enough to
grow....
* consuming enough CO2 and Cx to protect life on earth from
the careless, thoughtless human emissions of the last 150 years of our
industrial revolution that needs to leave the dinosaurs in the ground where
they belong....
* circulating water vapor from deep under the soil enough to
activate hidden genetic potentials in living organisms and earth systems, both
plants and animals, oceans, climate, life, lands, entire earth systems
inalienable enough to connect the disconnected and hidden genetic potentials
that want to reach up toward light of our sun enough to grow upwards enough to
produce critical flows freely to share with All life and land...All 100%
freely...even the cash-driven 1% to lift the many up enough to produce
positives enough to fill in hungry voids of the negative....to grow heaven
instead of causing hell
* inspiring many to reach far beyond the obvious of
confining, toxic, numbing, dumbing, dulling and nullifying cashflow floods of
human walls and barriers that crush life and land and potentials that any need
to win economically in any terminology....
Nature's invisible processes share critical flows such as
air and water flows and inalienable cycles freely to activate life cycles that
connect and activate all living cells, light, O2 production of plants, CO2
production of humans to connect the disconnected enough to activate nature's
hidden genetic potentials in all living systems to grow more nurturing and
vibrant ecological economies, logical but fragile economies impossible to count
in mechanical terms of human cash.....nature's ancient genetic potentials in
every living cell, genius that humans need to produce critical flows of O2,
H2O, soil, food, shelter to keep humans alive day to day and minute to
minute....to keep earth alive enough to carry humans into a future.
But some just don't get it and limit their counts to the
mechanical, artificial, immediate, obvious, privatizing, self-centered counts
of only one privatized bank account that crushes life and land and safe,
affordable access for the many to activate productivity potentials of the
many.....causing hell on earth, instead.
Cash-driven human cities limit our counts to private, immediate, obvious
counts of cash that crush life and land and nature's ability to heal a broken
earth, however. Ironically, human cash systems count the most critical flows
for life the least ....and the least critical structures and stones the most,
the most deadly kinetic forces the most....human cash devaluing and crushing
critical flows and productivity of O2 to breathe, H2O to drink, rich organic
topsoil and soil+makers to grow food and shelter to keep humans alive day to
day and minute to minute.......our human cash systems crushing and destroying
the ability of earth and US to survive as persons, as a nation, to carry any
human into any future of any definition.
We need a more logical economy that values the invaluable, the priceless critcical productivity potentials of nature's hidden genetic potentials to grow heaven on earth.....life and land, that values life and land impossible to count in cash.....so we can grow heaven on earth....instead of causing a cash-driven hell that is destroying us....please...thanks....
We need a more logical economy that values the invaluable, the priceless critcical productivity potentials of nature's hidden genetic potentials to grow heaven on earth.....life and land, that values life and land impossible to count in cash.....so we can grow heaven on earth....instead of causing a cash-driven hell that is destroying us....please...thanks....
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