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Tree Top Garbage

12/5/2019

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Tree Top Garbage

Tree Top Garbage
by Bill Lauto

There it shall stay,
until it erodes away.
Let loose by humankind,
into our air & out of mind.
Innocently caught by a tree,
until it’s digested by you and me.

If the garbage is some kind of foam, plastic or any other very slow degradable product made by humankind, the key word or the upsetting word in the poem above is digested. Litter, such as plastic, is made from petroleum. The official name is polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. When organic material, such as grass or an apple, is exposed to the elements of nature or buried, bacteria breaks down the item into the original compounds that formed the organic element. This biodegradation process doesn't occur on plastic in the same way or period of time.

Studies have shown that UV light will break the molecular bonds holding plastic together so that item can break down into smaller pieces. And smaller and smaller and smaller pieces. Nevertheless, there are problems because buried plastic in landfills are in a place where the sun doesn't shine and when plastic does break down into smaller pieces, this is proving to be a very serious problem.

First let us review what we all know: Plastic is building up in our oceans, especially the Pacific ocean. Humankind's plastic shopping bags, water bottles, take out containers, soda bottles, product packages and six-pack plastic rings are bathing in sunlight as they float in our oceans and waterways. The UV rays will eventually break down that plastic into smaller pieces. Ten years ago, a study from Nihon University in Chiba, Japan, discovered that plastic in our oceans can start to degrade within one year. Thus, creating smaller and smaller pieces.

BREAKING PLASTIC DOWN INTO SMALLER PIECES IS BECOMING A MAJOR WORLD WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM

These smaller pieces of plastic are not natural. They are made of bisphenol A (BPA) and PS oligomer. These are carcinogens and these toxic chemicals end up in the bellies of fish and perhaps evaporate into our air. So let us continue with that natural process of the rain cycle...
After Evaporation is Condensation and finally Precipitation, allowing these chemicals to settle on the land and crops. Animals eat the chemicals and humankind eats the fish, the animals and the crops!

I am now asking everyone who is perusing this GoingTrueGreen blog post to also revisit or read for the first time, these two previous posts:

Plastic Water, Air and Food (12/27/2017)

Plastic Clouds (03/19/2019)

As for all of us, may I suggest that we be extra mindful this time of year with the Christmas and holiday wrappings, boxes filled with shipping material and plastic waste.

GoingTrueGreen.com is teaching the complete picture for saving money, energy, our Earth and our health - Not teaching poetry.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Plastic Clouds

3/19/2019

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Is Humankind creating Plastic Clouds?

Is Humankind creating Plastic Clouds? Humankind’s future “may” hold serious repercussions based on the various evidence nature is presenting today with numerous issues. Yet, no one knows when, where or how anything specific may or may not happen. There also isn’t any precedent for exact matching elements in earth’s history that mandates our attitude to be passive or to panic. Scientists don’t know the time frame for any specific disaster, healing or level of harm. Nevertheless, Humankind has created new elements that did not previously exist, so we contribute in various degrees on various issues.

With the injection of plastics into our environmental equation and because everything is connected, we have a contributing factor that quite possibly can be a major catalyst for the severe storms that are occurring around the world. After reading multiple studies on two different topics and presenting at two lectures, one in Rome and the other in New York, I am asking the scientific community to investigate a possible clandestine connection between plastic and severe storms. Combining available data from multiple studies done on microplastic fibers and studies done on severe storm conditions, problematic possibilities are presented for an ever growing interconnecting issue. Recent findings show that the smallest of particles, smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair, have a prodigious role in creating large storm clouds. Taking data from these research projects, I present the hypotheses that the microfiber plastic we have been adding into our environment "may" actually be a player in any stronger Invigorating Convection process of storms.

The first topic on plastic is now quantifying what has been a growing concern for many years regarding the issue with plastics and the environment. We have significant evidence that we are drinking, breathing and eating plastic fibers. One main source of plastic particulates has been shown to come from a single wash load that can release up to 700,000 Microplastic fibers into our waterways. The clothes we wear today that contain plastic, outnumber clothes made of cotton and wool. Cotton and wool naturally decay, plastic does not.
Please see my previous blog: Plastic Water, Air and Food on December 27, 2017.

The second topic has research showing how tiny particles have an impact on storm clouds. The smallest of dirt particles will rise to the top of storm clouds making the cloud bigger and the storm more severe. I am now questioning if microscopic particulates made of plastic can be a factor in larger cloud formations, holding in heat, producing more rain and larger storms. A serious interconnecting problem may be manifesting between these two environmental concerns. The question became: How are microscopic plastic particulates getting into our atmosphere?

Research Studies have shown that tiny particles are a catalysts for more powerful storms and influence weather far greater than previously known. Small particles of dust, dirt and pollutants, known as aerosols, help form clouds and air pollution created by nature and man are all contributing to this water cycle. Particles smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair can create clouds to grow taller, intensify the storm and cause more rain to fall. These ultra fine particles less than 50 nanometers wide were studied to learn their role in the development of a thunderstorm. The data comes from 21 authors and 15 institutions world wide that conducted a study operated by Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility.

From this research scientists found that the ultra-small particles are numerous and plentiful. They can form many small droplets where excess water vapor can condense. This increase in condensation will release more heat, which in turn makes the updrafts so much more dominant. Increase the amount of warm air to be accumulated into the cloud and we have more droplets aloft to create additional rain, hail, snow and lightning. This process known as the Invigorated Convection, though the popular phrase used by the media is now Super Storm after Sandy struck the Northeast coast.

Plastic Sparkles On Greeting Cards

Weathering Plastic Fence Decor

From all these implications, facts and queries, I present the theory that aerosol microplastic particles from worn down and weathered CEDPs (Common EveryDay Plastics) may be a new culprit to changing our climate by being a player in the Invigorating Convection process. This theoretical connection between Microplastic Fibers and Severe Storms needs to be evaluated. If microscopic particles from CEDPs are proven to be an increasing contributing factor, humankind must realize that we are all guilty. From plastic sparkles on cards to outdoor plastic fence decor, we are all putting plastic particles into our environment everyday.

Humankind needs to be intelligent about our evaluations, approach and solutions that incorporate feasible transition periods. As I proffer this theory where microplastic fibers play a role in more severe storms, a full scientific study must be done. Without any research conducted nor samples taken to be examined from the highest point of severe storm clouds, this remains a theory.

Through educating and providing a long list of solutions on all topics makes the needed difference when implemented world wide. All of humankind is on the same team.

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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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PLASTIC CLOUDS
by William J. Lauto; Environmental Scientist, Naturalist, International Sustainability & Energy Consultant
Is Humankind creating Plastic Clouds?
How are microscopic plastic particulates getting into our atmosphere?
What are weathered CEDPs?
From plastic sparkles on cards to outdoor plastic fence decor, are we all guilty?
What are the solutions and isn't all of humankind on the same team?

Please use the Image Link to receive an email on info to Pre-Order or when my book is published. Expected date of publishing is before the end of Spring 2020. Thank you.

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NUTS

9/13/2018

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Two colleagues and members of the Going True Green team created a video when in Boston last month. They saw an opportunity to send me a zinger and they were intrigued to see my reaction. Below is the video:

My return text to them was one word, NUTS. The same answer used by Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe's in World War Two's Battle of the Bulge. When I saw them a few weeks later, they were laughing as I slowly shook my head. We then laughed and shared how they made the short video.

Nevertheless, the point made is well known and with that understanding, the improvement and development of energy storage advances each year.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Blue Moon

11/2/2017

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Blue Moon, Full Moon, Harvest Moon

A Blue Moon is the name given to the second Full Moon in one month. When we have two Full Moons in one month, due to our calendar’s operating proprieties, we have a Blue Moon. Our next Blue Moon will be on January 31, 2018.

However, my concern is not with our calendar having a Full Moon appear every 29.5 days or the rare occasion of a Blue Moon. I wish to address our next Full Moon on November 4 of 2017.

Over the years I have saved a great deal of money by using the October or November Full Moon as a reminder for the following actions around my house. Actions that save money, energy, earth, and our health:

Check and/or change all batteries in Smoke Detectors and Co alarms.
Change all timers on lights inside and outside the house.
Clean out all rain gutters.
Bring in all house plants and summer time decor.***
Drain all outdoor garden hoses, rain barrels, and clear off all drains.***
Shut off all water supplies to the outside and drain spigots.***
Blow out Low Flow watering and/or underground sprinklers.
Clean out, shut down, and cover AC units.***
Bring in or cover patio furniture.***
Gas Grills and Tanks should be cleaned, checked and serviced whenever they are scheduled for such service. Do Not bring Gas Tanks inside anywhere!
Oil heating units should be serviced and have a Steady State of Efficiency Test done. More info at our EnergyHotwire website: Click HERE

*** For those living in colder areas for the winter seasons

So each Fall Season when you see the Full Moon, use this as a reminder that summertime is over and "Check Ups" are needed around the house. Also this is the best time to "button up" your outdoor areas, for the winter will arrive.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Solar Fountain & Eclipse

8/22/2017

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America's 2017 Solar E!

My Solar powered water fountain is another action I did so that I can be “going true green.” I improvised the construction with left over parts and pieces that all came together as a conglomerate, thus provoked the fountain’s name…

Then the American 2017 Solar Eclipse occurred slowly casting a shadow that decreased the output from the 10 watt solar panel. As crickets became pronounced in sound production with this false twilight, the babbling water in the fountain stopped. The event gave a realistic aura to my fountain named The Ruins of Pompeii.

So the moral to this story is… Well, just look into a Solar powered pump for your water fountain, if you have one. Make sure you recycle and reuse the same water running through the pump. A battery backup works fine for the cloudy days and evenings when you sit outside with family and friends. The benefits are numerous all around. My water fountain comes on every morning when the sun comes up and runs all day with Free electrical energy from our sun. If I had to pay an electric bill, then I guess I would only turn the fountain on for special occasions. With Solar, I can enjoy the sounds of running water from the fountain every time I step into my yard. Even when I am just outside to pick some carrots or a water melon. This is an excellent Going True Green action that saves money, energy, water, and our environment. All by just living a more sustainable life right in your own home. If we all did these actions, together we the people, will save more of everything compared to any corporate entity.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Fertilizer Out Of Thin Air

8/14/2017

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Lightning from Space: NASA Image

Many of us have heard of sayings such as: “Money doesn’t grow on trees” and “You can’t just make money appear out of thin air.”

Well, let us try this… How would you like to know how you can save money by getting something for Free “Out Of Thin Air?” Too good to be true, right? This time the answer is TRUE!

Do you have flowers, plants, or crops? Do you spend money on buying fertilizer to help your garden grow? If yes, then you are wasting your money on a product that you really don’t need because you can get fertilizer for free out of thin air!

When a lightning storm occurs, that will naturally fertilize all living plants! The science behind this is as follows: Lightning causes the nitrogen molecules in the air to cling to the oxygen molecules. This bond forms nitrogen oxides. The nitrogen oxides will either fall from the sky or be collected by the rain drops. Fertilizer’s main ingredient is nitrogen. So stop buying a product that God provides to us for free.

Now to enhance this Free benefit from the sky, many farmers will run bare copper wiring around copper stakes to form a loop around the flower patch or tomato plants. The copper wire will attract static electricity and add more nitrogen to the soil. However, I found the following to be an easier step and a better solution.

First, nitrogen from lightning will not be enough for many plants to grow as strong or as big as you may like. However, that is seen by some people as one’s own opinion. NASA has data showing that more than 2,000 thunderstorms take place around the world at any given time. Combined, these storms produce at least 100 lightning flashes per second. Yet, in addition to nitrogen helping plant life, so does bacteria. That is the extra step I take to fertilizer my plants and food that I grow. COMPOSTING.

I make my own dirt, aka Top Soil, aka Fertilizer. To read more about how to fertilize for free and save even more money, go to my GoingTrueGreen.com Blog dated 4-7-2015 under the Topic called Composting. The title of the blog is: There Is Money In Composting

These are just two more Going True Green actions to living a more sustainable life that saves you money, energy, health, and our environment! Now that is Going True Green.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Springtime in February

3/13/2017

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Recent warm temperatures in the New York City area this past February and early March has brought upon me a wave of questions from followers of my Going True Green Blog and website. Snow one day, near 70 degrees the next, and now a blizzard, can easily make many people concern with understanding what these type of weather patterns actually mean.

Since I don't want to add any fuel to the fire of misconceptions by using verbiage that can be misconstrued, I contacted Dr. Stephen Schwartz at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for additional insight. Dr. Schwartz is the Senior Scientist for BNL's Environmental and Climate Sciences Department.

Dr. Schwartz

I told Dr. Schwartz that several people from the Northeast were asking if the warm temperatures they were experiencing ever occurred in February before and if this was a direct result of climate change?

"Hard to attribute specific events (warm seasons or extreme events) to a particular cause given inherent variability associated with climate." Dr. Schwartz presented. "But temperature seems to be inexorably rising. Still, we had quite low temps here two winters ago while much of Northern Hemisphere was near the record high, a consequence of location of loops on Jet Stream. So no climatologist will draw conclusions from one or a few seasons. That said the record high global temps in 2015 and 2016 are consistent with warming expected from increases in GreenHouse Gasses."

Another question was about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) allegedly altering numbers to support a Climate Change narrative. Dr. Schwartz stated, "No evidence that NOAA is manipulating data to achieve a political objective. Always hard to prove a negative. But analyses of temperature data by several groups all coincide closely."

Many times, I have experienced these type of generalized questions only leading to a debate on who should we blame. For me, the Blame Game is useless. We don't know definitely what outcome will come upon us from a changing climate or warmer ocean temperatures. We also do not know the time frame for when something bad or good will occur. Needless to say, a good or bad outcome, does not matter. The bottom line is this: With what we do know about our planet's climate there should not be a single company or individual in our world, that would want to RISK our children's future. This is the reason why at GoingTrueGreen.com, we teach everyone how to live a more sustainable life! The reasons for doing so are not based on fear or blithe, they are because of the following:

- You save MONEY, lots of money.
- You save ENERGY, thus saving more Money.
- Improve your HEALTH.
- Improve our ENVIRONMENT and yes, perhaps save the world.

Everyone can accomplish all of the above without any sacrifice to the lifestyle known. If you peruse some of my blog posts, you will soon learn my own firsthand accounts and how saving Money, Energy, Health, and our Environment is personally satisfying and financially rewarding.

Bill Lauto, at Going True Green
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A "True" Hero

12/9/2016

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A "True" Hero

I have several heroes and heroines, but I only look up to a few "True" heroes and heroines. As for male heros, my father, uncles, and John Glenn. I see John Glenn as a True hero not just because he was a veteran, pilot, astronaut, and political leader, but because of what he didn't do. Some may think that he never walked on the moon, but it is the fact that he never walked out on his wife, family, or God.

Annie and John Glenn were married 73 years and life wasn't easy. Two wars and raising a family when being first to ride a questionable rocket into orbit isn't normal. Yet, John Glenn was a normal man. A good gentle man, that held all that was truly important to him within his spirit. He spent weeknights on base in the Bachelor Officer's Quarters when married. He kept his room as if he was a monk. Photos, training manuals, and a well read Bible. He would drive home on the weekends to be with his family and he was by far all of the other astronauts' astronaut.

When my family moved, I found myself attending one of the High Schools named after him and there I started that school's first Astronomy Club. Our Student Council started a routine in the early 1970s to invite John Glenn every year to speak at a graduation cermony. In the 1990s John Glenn ran into a fellow alumni in Washington, D.C. and knew our school, since several are named after him, as "You are from that high school that keeps inviting me every year after year!" He was then kind enough to explain why it was so difficult for him to attend an occasion for any high school graduation.

For John Glenn, his wife Annie was his hero. As for his legacy? John Glenn did not care to project what that should be, he stated that will be written by others. So this is my contribution: John Glenn was about finding solutions and knowing the definition to words like virtue. He was a "true" hero for all.

God's speed John Glenn.

Bill Lauto, at Going True Green
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Stars, Earth, and the Force

12/22/2015

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Earth

This morning I saw Star Wars, The Force Awakens. I saw this movie in the same theater that I saw the very first one so many years ago...

Of course the theater has been rebuilt, remodeled, and upgraded, over the years. Nevertheless, many things still remain the same, just like the message from Star Wars: There will always be good and evil in our world, you just have to evaluate ALL the FACTS to know that you are standing on the right side. When you evaluate all the facts, there is only one side that removes all doubt and that is the light of the world. While George Lucas demonstrates there are two sides of the Force, in our world we know the two sides as good and evil.

Many times we have difficulty seeing the good in our world, especially when the world's media companies just focus on the bad news in hopes for higher ratings. Yet, God has shown us the power of the good side. For those who need evidence, look no further than what Jesus teaches us and the proof He left us. Look upon all the real scientific facts given to us with an unpretentious mind from the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium head cloth.

Your research and evaluation shall be a long process when done correctly, yet when concluded, you will not just hope, believe, or have faith. You will KNOW and yes, the good side of the force will be very strong within you.

As for how any of this has anything to do with Going True Green, the reason is because everything is connected. This is the solution for our planet's limitations, dangers, and any of the many potential climate change problems confronting us tomorrow. We have three (3) fronts against climate change: Political, Corporate, and Individual.

The Individual Front, you and me, is the KEY. As an individual, we all must lead the corporations and political engines to the solution. By being connected, evaluating all the facts and recognizing the risks we create by failing as an individual...
Individuals can change inefficient light bulbs in their house to compact fluorescents or LEDs.
Individuals realize we now eat far more red meat and the results are not helping our health or our environment.
Individuals can have a compost in their backyard or in their building's courtyard.
Individuals must evaluate what they are buying and why. Is the product a "bill of goods" that we don't need?

The list goes on and on, but more importantly is how the list converts...
Individuals are contractors doing work wrong, cutting corners, or help clients save money.
Individuals operate corporations.
Individuals hold public office.
Individuals are politicians!

Once the heart and mind of an individual is corrupted, for whatever reason, and they did not take the time to learn all the facts, to talk to all the people, to work with everyone, then there is never a team effort or real shared concern. Thus, there will never be any solutions.

You and me, each individual in this world is the solution. That is my message, that is my goal with the work of GoingTrueGreen.com and EnergyHotwire.com. Together, first as an individual, then as a team, we will help save our world. For those who literally turn to the dark side, we must come together as one to stop them. For if they ever use nuclear weapons, then we will have no world to save.

This Christmas, start with the research, get all the facts on one topic at a time, then evaluate as an unpretentious scientist. As an individual I am living a more sustainable life by being more connected to God, people, and our environment. I have been successful saving money, energy, and our environment, while living healthier. Don't just hope we can help save the world, know that you can. For the same power and force that rose Jesus from the grave is within us. Peace be with you and have a blessed Christmas.

Bill Lauto , GTG
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 International Sustainability and Energy Consultant 
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Does The Media Actually Read?

6/26/2015

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Getting A Read On The Media

Did any reporter completely read the 180 page Encyclical Letter by Pope Francis before commenting on the message?

According to many headlines, captions, reports, summaries, soundbites and editorials, they obviously did not. I saw manipulated versions that just report lies by the “process of omission” for the sole purpose of creating additional erroneous controversies specifically done to increase ratings and make money. One of the very problems the Pope addresses in his Encyclical Letter:

It follows that the fragmentation of knowledge and the isolation of bits of information can actually become a form of ignorance, unless they are integrated into a broader vision of reality.

From the start of the letter, sections were extracted to claim that the Pope blames man’s society and market for creating Climate Change. Citing only our Industrial Age along with cars, poor transportation systems, nonrenewable fuels to produce energy, manufacturing plants, polluting, and consumption of our Earth’s resources, is a misrepresentation of the real reasons to why we have global issues destroying our environment that also harm the poorest of our brothers and sisters.

However, when you continue to read, you learn that this presented impression is only isolated bits of information. Pope Francis provided that while our creativity has produced products, actions, and inventions that are causing Climate Change, that is not where we should place blame. In fact, Pope Francis states that humankind has invented amazing products, produced life saving actions, and has wonderful accomplishments. The blame falls not upon “WHAT” we have, but the “HOW” we use them.

The real reasons for the problems we now face are from our attitudes and our lifestyles. A complete and in depth view reveals that the true reasons come from: business’ missions to increase the profit margin at any cost; greed; indifferences; misguided goals; misinformed conclusions; lack of morals and virtue; self righteous assessments that place a higher value on one self over other humans, animals, and nature; spurning the fact about everyone and everything is connected; ignoring long term consequences “So Not” to spend more money on a better way or solution; knowing there will be no consequences in their lifetime for how they do things and not caring about what our own grandchildren will face. Thus in one word: anthropocentrism.

Where we ourselves have the final word, where everything is simply our property and we use it for ourselves alone. The misuse of creation begins when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves.

Hence we should not be surprised to find, in conjunction with the omnipresent technocratic paradigm and the cult of unlimited human power, the rise of a relativism which sees everything as irrelevant unless it serves one’s own immediate interests. There is a logic in all this whereby different attitudes can feed on one another, leading to environmental
degradation and social decay.

We Must Stop Walking Toward A Cliff

Humankind has failed to realize that we have inadvertently packed the wrong items in our backpack for survival. We must stop walking this trail that leads to the edge of a cliff, and each one of us must turn toward a new direction, a new mindset. However, first we must put our backpacks down to eliminate the following invisible forces:

The Culture of Relativism, Use and Throw Away logic, The Culture of Consumerism, The Cult of Appearances, Mockery of Ethics, Immorality of Greed, Belittling Faith, Jesting about Honesty, and the worst of all, holding Anthropocentrism in our hearts.

The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast.

So Pope Francis told us that the guilt is within a company’s mission and one’s own attitude. He presented these truths by quoting many different people, speaking with words that Native Americans speak, citing examples, and pointing out the good that is within each of us. His letter speaks the hard truth while proclaiming the hope humankind is capable of. I was particularly happy to see Pope Francis point out a few claims that I have made over the years, such as the need for a Team Effort and that we are all connected. For if we harm our environment, we harm ourselves and if we destroy our environment, we destroy ourselves.