| For the past 10 years or so we've been hearing | | | | does seem something's going. Also, not much |
| lots about something called Global Warming. For | | | | more than 150 years ago, the Industrial |
| some, it has come to be a clarion call for all that | | | | Revolution started, and for the first time, we |
| needs to change in the way we do things here on | | | | started burning fossil fuels, moving off the farms, |
| earth, i.e., that we're responsible. Others, however, | | | | then inventing the airplane and the car, both of |
| say it happened in the past, and it will happen | | | | which use these fossil fuels at a ravenous pace, |
| again in the future. It's just the ebb and flow of | | | | and which have been flown or driven by countless |
| the planet, and we as humans had nothing to do | | | | millions over the past century, common sense |
| with it. | | | | tells us that we just might turn out to be the |
| For the past 10 years or so we've been hearing | | | | culprit. If not 100% responsible, we certainly seem |
| lots about something called Global Warming. For | | | | to be a contributing factor. |
| some, it's come to be a clarion call for all that | | | | If history proves that we weren't to blame for all |
| needs to change in the way we do things here on | | | | of this, it still wouldn't be wrong to try to wean |
| earth, i.e., that we're responsible. Others, however, | | | | ourselves off the fossil fuels as our main source |
| say it happened in the past, and it will happen | | | | of energy for these modes of transportation, |
| again in the future. It's just the ebb and flow of | | | | especially since we now know that the supply is |
| the planet, and we as humans had nothing to do | | | | finite. Otherwise, some day we'll head to the gas |
| with it. | | | | station or the airport, and find that even $100 |
| Of course, since there was nobody who recorded | | | | won't buy a gallon of these fuels, since there's |
| one of these climate changes in the distant past, | | | | none left anywhere but museums. |
| expecially since it was happening at the speed of | | | | Whether you agree or not that global warming is |
| a glacier, it's hard to know what caused these | | | | true and important, we can still agree on one |
| changes. After all, contrary to what our children | | | | point--that the environment is important. After all, |
| are being taught in the public schools across the | | | | we're not in a galaxy far, far away. This is our |
| country, some things can never be proven 100%, | | | | only planet. That's why we at believe in providing |
| since one of the primary things needed to move | | | | a green alternative to plastics and cardboard in |
| from theory to fact is observation. | | | | photo albums, in that our craftsmen on Bali, |
| However, when one looks at the evidence--acid | | | | Indonesia, use only jungle-renewable materials in |
| rain having destroyed much of Germany's Black | | | | the production of our albums. This makes them |
| Forest, a huge hole in the ozone layer over | | | | one of the very few websites offering |
| Antarctica, the rise in percentage of the world's | | | | eco-friendly photo albums, or organic photo |
| carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, | | | | albums on the Internet. |
| permafrost patches thawing for the first time | | | | Click on one of the links today, and stop in to see |
| ever, as far as anyone can remember, polar | | | | what all of this is about. Please also note that |
| bears getting smaller in the Arctic Circle and | | | | shipping and handling gets paid for any order over |
| nearby because ice there forms later, and melts | | | | $75. |
| earlier than it did earlier in our own lifetimes--it | | | | |