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- Title
DARN TOOT’N ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: METHANE AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
- Authors
Kenneth Meyer, C.; Geerts, Jeffrey; Noe, Lance; Hutchison, Leah
- Abstract
“The rest of the story…” adage always provides an unexpected twist in the meaning of words and how words, in turn, inform our imagination and, then, how we view the world of nature. As this story is told, two cosmopolitans, academic types, were dining out in a rather “pedestrian, but adequate” restaurant and during a pause in their conversation overhead from a table nearby “bits and pieces” of a conversation engaged in by four rather stately dressed, quite articulate, men and women. They snickered to themselves then laughed openly when they returned to their cars and recounted that the table on which they had eavesdropped said with certain accountability that in the 1800s. the United States experienced significant air pollution due to the gaseous substances emitted by buffalo herds, especially those that numbered in the tens of thousands in the West. In a kind of “Hee Haw” joviality, they mentioned the incident to an environmentalist who told them about the proposed “cow tax” dealing with methane and how a rancher, Timothy Plano, was coming to grips with the proposed governmental regulation. In the final analysis, what seemed to be implausible to the uninformed “city-slickers,” was indeed a concern by those who had more than a fleeting understanding of both science and history. Thus the moral of the story: “Laughter based on ignorance produces an embarrassing commentary”
- Subjects
UNITED States; CLIMATE change; METHANE; SEMANTICS; AIR pollution; RANCHERS; FARMERS
- Publication
Journal of Business & Educational Leadership, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
1948-6413
- Publication type
Article