It was bound to happen. The first weed to develop a resistance to chemicals has shown itself. Pigweed is invulnerable to man-made herbicides. Monsanto says it’s the farmers’ fault. Corporate farms are in huge trouble because they can’t harvest what’s left of their GMO crops. Check out this video from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8767877

Does anyone else have a problem with the blurb below?

On October 24, 2009, the Monroe Lego Club joined millions of people around the world to bring attention to climate change. The Lego Club created an animated, stop-action-video to help world leaders understand that we need to return to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.Let’s let the Lego people, with our help, share the story of how important it is to achieve 350 ppm of carbon dioxide on Earth and reduce the impacts of climate change. From Media-Citizen Global

If this doesn’t prove that climate change is nothing more than a marketing tool, I don’t know what does. It’s mighty nice of the LEGO Group to sponsor events that could put them out of business. Think about it for just one second. What are LEGOS made from? Plastic, and it is one of the most dangerous substances on the planet, polluting our water and air, and spewing boatloads of nasty carbon into the air.

National Geographic reports:

The team’s new study is the first to show that degrading plastics are leaching potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A into the seas, possibly threatening ocean animals, and us.

A study from USC found that plastic children’s toys are among the favorites of marine life. It’s also one of the most dangerous.

So why are proponents of climate change willing to overlook the obvious? Further, why are they teaching children that some pollution is better than others? The LEGO Group is not part of the solution. They are the problem.

I suppose you really can fool some of the people all of the time. But they don’t fool me for a second. They might be singing Kumbaya on the magic green bus, but they’re really controlling the message. And that’s my problem with the whole “green” ideology. As long as you’re nice to them, then it’s okay to stink the place up. But if they don’t like a particular corporation or individual, they single them out and pummel them like bullies in a school yard.

On second thought, maybe LEGOS are the perfect symbol of global warming. Like LEGO blocks, global warming can be whatever you want it to be.

So, you want to move to the country. You’re going to pack the kids into the minivan and head for the hills with Fido in tow, humming the theme to Green Acres as you speed away from the mean streets of the city. Not so fast there, greenhorn. If it were that easy everyone would do it. Everyone is doing it, you say? Okay, there has been a dramatic population shift from urban areas into rural areas, and it does seem like everywhere you look these days some glossy, powder-puff magazine is extolling the virtues of simple rural living. The problem is that rural living isn’t all that simple.

In the current issue of Countryside yet another reader laments that their foray into the country was a miserable experience. Resorting to slurs like “red neck,” the writer places the blame for her situation entirely on the people of the rural Kentucky community that she now despises.

I was watching Ocean Adventures on PBS one evening. John Michel Cousteau was interviewing an Amazon fish farmer. He wanted to know how the small farmer felt about the number of urbanites buying property along the famed river and moving in lock, stock and barrel. Through a translator the farmer replied, “When someone from the country moves to the city, they learn everything they need to survive there in a few weeks. When someone from the city moves to the country, it can take them years to learn what they need to survive.” Leave it to a farmer to come right out and say it. Rural life isn’t simple by any stretch of the imagination.

The writer of the article bashing the fine community in Kentucky did just about everything wrong. She moved to an economically depressed area and flaunted money, leading the locals to believe that the newcomers might hire one or two locals to help spruce up the new bed and breakfast. When the newcomers refused to hire anyone, they got a bad reputation. Things deteriorated fast from there.

If you want to move to the country to open a bed and breakfast, or some other niche business, you might want to read “The Greenhorn’s Guide to Homesteading” before you go. Otherwise, you may end up using unflattering slurs to describe your former neighbors and carry a chip on your shoulder for a long time to come.