Ceremonial First Post

Hello and Welcome,

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I hope you find the information interesting and helpful in your own search of what is going on in our world with respect to Global Warming, Environmental Impact, the Oil Crisis, and Global Finance.

What I am chronicling here is my journey to better understand whether these issues are myth or fact. Important or overblown. Something we should worry about or something that is completely normal as part of our evolution in history. Finally and more importantly, are the people promoting these topics out to gain something from the rest of us? In other words: Are we being used?

Would you join me in my journey as I learn more about these topics? Please leave your feedback and post your own questions for us to investigate together.

A bit about myself: I am your standard guy with a full time job and a growing family. Though I love to camp, hike, and adventure travel, I have never really been engaged or concerned about our environment. Of course, if you watch the news these days you can not seem to get away from these topics and so the relentless pounding of the drums has finally broken me down and I feel the need to start separating fact from fiction.

I go into this with one premise:
'If we, as a race, are not necessarily damaging the environment by our actions, BUT we could improve the environment without irreparable financial and personal harm...we should do it.'

I know this may sound a little Al Gore-ish, but I do not believe in the axiom 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

Let us not be herded as "sheepal", but let us make our own decisions.