¡°As the world¡¯s ranking authority on environmental biomedicine, I have been asked to lend the weight of my opinion to yet another tense seminar on the future of the earth.  My friends, there is nothing to fear. Soon we¡¯ll harvest the seas, colonize the planets, control every aspect of the weather. We¡¯ll develop nuclear reactors to provide the English-speaking world with unlimited energy, safely and cheaply. Our radio astronomers will communicate with beings at the very ends of the universe. We¡¯ll build hydraulic robots to make automation obsolete. We¡¯ll manufacture plastic lungs and brains. We¡¯ll reprogram human cells with new genetic information to wipe out inherited disease. Obsolescence itself will become obsolete. We¡¯ll recycle everything. Shoes to food. Candles to paper. Rocks to light bulbs. The philosophical question has been asked: what will become of death?  Gentlemen, I have the answer right here.  The sealed envelope please.¡±

~~ Don DeLillo, End Zone

from sea to shining seas¡¦

land:  http://www.nrdc.org/naturesvoice/feature2.asp

err:  http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/03win/toxictown1.asp

water:  http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/exesum.asp

¡¦frankly, I¡¯d be happy with JUST ONE clean stream to row on. But, I know that¡¯s probably too egocentric a lower 99% thing to ask for in this particular 21st Century ...& we¡¯ve probably used up our share of big blessings for a while.  §Ùmmm