I have long been a supporter of helping the enviornment and doing my part to “go green.” I do my best not to waste resources and only use what I really need. I ride my bike religiously during the summer, trying to use my car less. My car does indeed get quality gas mileage and isn’t one of those big ass, gas guzzling, monstrosities, with wheels taller then me, and serve no purpose in society. Hummer H2? C’mon, those things are pointless. I have NEVER seen one of those things with a spec of dirt on them. Can’t get all that chrome dirty now can they? I work in an industry and supports the whole “go green” aspect. Each day however, I find it harder and harder to continue my ways. I feel that people in this country just don’t give a shit. Sure there are strong advocets of this movement. Has anyone heard of Al Gore? However, I feel that the general population could care less. It still boggles my mind that these people critizize the effects that we really play on global warming. The answer seems so simple. Wether or not we are contributing to global warming, the Earth is indeed changing regardless of Global Warming, and we need to take action. Consuming resources at a pace the planet cannot keep up with, polluting the atmosphere on a daily basis, destroying other culture’s way of life. The U.S. has got to be the top contributor to all three of these problems.
We consume more then any other country. Everything is in excess. Too many food joints, stores for miles. Think of all the products that are in retail stores JUST in the Twin Cities. Food, clothing, cars, bicycles, everyday household items. You could get anything you want delivered to you the next day if you wanted. Think of the constant stream of delivery trucks that roam our freeways with goods. Non-stop I’m sure, delivering goods on a daily basis. Just too much.
What about pollution? While I think China is the biggest contributor to that, we are right behind them. Why don’t we have laws to limit the amount of CO2 companies and send into the atmosphere? Because it will hurt the economy? Bullshit. A sad excuse for CEO’s to avoid the problem. What if the government were to help those companies with the cost to transform their current process to a cleaner solution? Get the hell outta Iraq and use the money for a better purpose. I stated this a couple posts ago, but I’m going to repeat myself. The Iraq war is a war were were told was to stop terrorism. We were told what we wanted to hear. False, its about OIL, and taking control of the biggest cash crop in human history.
Corporate America is constantly taking advantage of other nation’s resources. Why? So they can make millions, the American public gets what it demands, and everyone is happy right? Wrong. Think of all those places, and people around the world that have suffered severely so we can be happy. The books that John Perkins have written really open the worlds eyes to the American Empire. His books “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, and “The Secret History of the American Empire:Economic Hit men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption” emphasize how Corporate America makes all its moeny. I must say, its sickening. Its no wonder people in the Middle East, Asia, and South America loathe Americans.
The sad reality is, we have become accustomed to our way of life. Spoiled? In some aspects yes. Will the leaders of our country realize these effects we play and change the way we go about our lives? I have doubts about that. Doubts about not seeing changes in our lifetime, and that by the time those changes are made its going to be too late. All this talk of things that will be the end of the human race. All the natural disasters, the end of the Mayan Calendar, asteriods, magnetic shifts of the poles, radiation from the Sun, Ozone layer, etc. . I think the downfall of the human race with be the human race. Too many of us take life for granted. So who’s going to step up to the plate?
daily quote – “The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we’re contributing to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.” -Barack Obama
