Don't live a lie.

The world is moving away from environmentally dangerous practices. The USA is probably one of the last to do so when it should be the first.

Annex A...

...Industrial processes 
        Mineral products
        Chemical industry
        Metal production 
        Other production
        Production of halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride
        Consumption of halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride
        Other Solvent and other product use...

I think that covers most of the mineral products and their processes to extract them from Earth. The chemical industry became a very exciting industry under President Obama. A new industrial standard began and I haven't really commented on it. 

"Green Chemistry" and the universities have been involved in developing these new methods and products. The University of Michigan and it's brilliant Graduate students and faculty were a part of it.

Green Chemistry is to make consumer items far safer. So, maybe I should start with that next week. It is a huge plus for any economy and the safety of the environment.

DuPont continued it's research and development during the Great Depression. It came out the other side of that economic failure ahead of the crowd and became a huge success in the following decades. The problem with some of that was dangers society didn't realize existed yet, including lack of fire resistance and retardants in furniture and clothing. Green Chemistry reverses the 'harm' in consumer products, but, leaves the quality or characteristic may be a better word, of the enhancement by chemistry.

Annex A is far larger than simply a list of items. It has content and context that is taking awhile, but, I really believe it is the best approach and it will be on the blog for a long time.

The idea there are scientists in the world that siphon off funding from governments and foundations because they have made up some kind of myth about the climate crisis is simply ridiculous. American politicians should be ashamed of their idiotic behavior, hubris and pandering to political ideologies that harm their own children's future.

Earth is not a toy. It is the one blue dot "Voyager" saw as it reached the end of our solar system. It wasn't Saturn or Jupiter that stood out so incredibly. It was Earth. Not Mars. Not any other planet. 

Earth. The water planet is uniquely important. The distant picture of Earth by Voyager I portrayed the beauty of a planet alive. Not just water with air around it or a "Red Spot." A planet with scientists that took a picture at the edge of a solar system to prove our uniqueness.

As Carl Sagan stated, "...That's home. That's us. On it (Earth) everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you heard of, every human being that ever was, lived out their lives...."

Living in the richness of a fulling life takes awareness and participation. If a person doesn't live in full awareness of their impact on Earth, their home, they are not in touch with reality. Don't live a lie.