Posted on 06/25/2008 7:58:31 AM PDT by SmithL
It would be lovely to imagine the era of brutal Earth-mauling technologies, coal extraction and petroleum and industrial agriculture and strip mining and clear cutting and industrial fishing and all rest, all the more rapacious and unforgiving notions of how we exist on this planet are, after an era of unchecked capitalistic greed and waste and over-consumption right along with almost zero concern for consequences and the ethics of sustainability, finally moving toward obsolescence -- or rather, are quickly being shoved there by sheer necessity, brutal market forces, as supply runs dry and oil production slows and the Earth groans and spits and says, "enough already."
It is a pivotal time, and now more than ever, you get to choose the lens through which you want to watch it all unfold. Or implode.
Are we headed toward a brighter future packed like a Hooters Energy Drink with a renewed sense of hope and global cooperation? Or is our species plainly doomed to be crushed under the corn syrupy weight of our own gluttony and ego and entitlement? Are we waking up just in time to save ourselves from ourselves, or is that fistful of sociocultural Ambien we downed all those years ago merely causing us to sleep-drive into a wall of nuclear asbestos?
Choose your attitude, baby. Because on the one hand, you can cruise through cool conscious hipster mags like Grist or Treehugger and Dwell and Good and the like,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The high priest giving us our daily dose of that old time (Marxist) religion.....
I LOVE my life! I love all the modern conveniences that we enjoy today. When I walk into a supermarket I think of my grandmother and great grandmother who never saw these magnificent stores. They would have loved them! Rather than the life my maternal grandmother lived. No electricity, no indoor plumbing, poor farmers, lived in a shack, married at 16 and died at 36 after having ten babies. 8 lived to be adults, and fine adults they all were. They all very much appreciated Modern Life in the USA! None of them were rich, but they all worked hard and provided for their families. Most of them dropped out of school around 8th grade to either get married, or work on the farm full time. They grew their own fruits and vegetables and pigs and chickens. They sold what they could and canned the over ripe stuff for their own use. They had to bring the bath tub into the kitchen and boil water to fill it with about once a week. My mother had to wear long sleeves and long hair and long skirts and no make up, it was a very fundamental religion, Pentecostal. My mother moved out at age 18 when she graduated, first one to do that, and moved into town, cut her hair, bought make up, etc. She always says she was happier AFTER age 40! She had a hard life. SHe is in her 80s now. But life in USA is better than ever before!!!!!!!!!! I have a photo of the old shack they lived in when mom was growing up and it looks like just boards and no glass in the windows, in Oklahoma where it is hot in summer and cold in winter. No, Al Gore, hot summers are NOT NEW!
What a total “pillow biter” this clown is!
“What a total “pillow biter” this clown is!”
And he writes two articles like this one every week!
“What a total “pillow biter” this clown is!”
And he writes two articles like this one every week!
When it’s time for us to go back to being hunter-gatherers, survival fishermen, and individual agrarians, I expect to see this doofazoid at the head of the line.
Right.
You left out the part about the Morfordite owning the copyright on run-on-sentences.
LOL! I was *this close* to commenting that his entire second paragraph was one misbegotten single sentence. I feel your pain.
He will be used as "bait", like tying a goat to a tree to attract a lion.
Lighten up, this is by far his best work, just love that mental image of DiCrapio...
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