There's No Substitute for Self Reliance
Like you, I've recently been following the news and it's been an astonishing year of environmental challenges, hasn't it?
Today I am reading about the devastating 7.6 earthquake in Kashmir and terrifying mountainside collapses in Guatemala. Two weeks ago Typhoon Damrey displaced 300,000 in southeast Asia. This followed a month of ever-more alarming news of unbelievable loss and stories of unpreparedness following Hurricane Katrina, evacuation nightmares and gas shortages in Hurricane Rita, a freak paralyzing snowstorm in the Dakotas and the dramatic beginning of Southern California's catastrophic fire season, predicted to be one of the most severe on record, owing to the torrential winter rains of ‘04-‘05.
