St. George Spectrum & Daily News
Record heat waves in America and Europe endanger millions, as wildfires rage, in a brutal manifestation of man-induced global warming.
Each of us can reduce our personal contribution by cutting back on consumption of animal foods, which account for a whopping portion of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is released by burning forests to create animal pastures. Methane and nitrous oxide are released from digestive tracts of cows and sheep and from animal waste pits.
In an environmentally sustainable world, vegetables, fruits, and grains must replace animal food products in our diet, just as wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources replace fossil fuels. The next trip to our favorite supermarket provides a great opportunity to explore the delicious, healthful, eco-friendly plant-based meat and ice cream products in the frozen food section.
Strat Gonzalez
St. George
It has taken me 21 years to appreciate the amazing work your community angels accomplished in coming to our rescue after our plane made a middle-of-the-night emergency landing at your airport on September 18, 2001.
From my point of view as a passenger back then, all I could appreciate was my own and my fellow passengers trauma as our plane made an extremely precipitous descent into your airport after there was a fire in the cabin. What I realize only now is that your communitys emergency services people acted quickly, inventively, and safely to get us all off the disabled plane and into the terminal where we sheltered for the next 12 hours.
Living moment-to-moment in the emergency I was blind to the effort it must have taken to awaken a probably closed airport and mobilize a construction lift to remove us from the aircraft. As our big plane had landed quite far from your small terminal, you also found school buses and drivers to transport us to the terminal. In the morning I saw the pick-up trucks (who organized those?) filled with our luggage, awaiting a replacement plane to complete our journey to Chicago.
One week after 9/11 everyone in this country was experiencing some degree of trauma. I am so thankful that your community arose to help rescue strangers who dropped out of the sky that night.
Marie Shakespeare
Bloomington, Indiana
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