2 posts tagged “environment”
"An examination by the Sun shows that the pension fund's $23 billion portfolio contains investments in companies that do business with rogue nations or whose practices contribute to social or environmental ills in direct opposition to United States and Nevada policies." -- Las Vegas Sun
Who are you kidding? What exactly are the practices that we take practice in? Aren't we a rogue nation? Going against what the greater good tells us and going into a war? That's pretty rogue to me.
Then there is our environmental practices. As those million soccer mom commandeered SUVs roaming around our streets isn't contributing to any environmental ills. How about the hundreds of cars I see every day stuck in traffic, most of us with a single person to each vehicle? We don't even have to talk about all the plants dumping nuclear waste or rocket fuel into our biggest water sources.
From as far back as I can remember, a child without much of a social or political opinion, I have always seen that when it comes to this stuff we're always the pot calling the kettle. It doesn't matter which side you're on or where you're standing, we're still all a bunch of hypocrites. If not for acknowledging it, then for not doing any major beans about.
This song came to my attention while I have been thinking about how doomed the planet is. Unlike most people I truly don't think we can or will turn anything around with our climate, environment or governments. I believe we will continue directly on the same path we've always been on and one day it'll all go poof. Sure we can turn things around, anything is possible, but just because we can doesn't mean we will. I think we won't. This song is all about the opposite of that. Telling us not to give up and we can press on. We certainly can, but only while being uplifted during the Live Earth concert. Unfortunately people go home and sit back down in their chairs to find that suddenly the momentum to save the world is gone.
Just because I think we're doomed to eventual extinction doesn't make me pessimistic or negative. I have much hope for the future. I see the light in the kids eyes and our new generations seem to only be getting better. With the better always comes the worse, of course, so for as many good changes I come up with I'm sure there's just as many new bad ones.
I know that the planet is doomed and that people will just use it up until it's gone because I know people. When was the last time you tried to organize a party? It's not easy. People are late, they get in fights with your friends and someone always forgets to bring something important. These days, you can hardly pay people to cooperate even for something fun. Back in the day I had the group blogs where up to eight people were supposed to post wordy thoughts on a daily basis. Never happened. We sat there staring at each other most of the time. And that was supposed to be fun! Saving the world is not fun. Eight people will not blog regularly for fun and eight million will not stop messing with mother nature based on "the right thing to do."
People are lazy. Until their SUVs, reclining chairs and big screen tvs are ripped from their clutches they will not notice the destruction going on around them. It's simply not a big deal.
For me it really isn't. Not to say I will abuse the planet extra hard just because I think it's a lost cause. I'm mindful of what I'm doing. I do think we've got a good 100 to 200 years on random fossil fuels left. I don't think I'll see complete desolation in my life time. Maybe the next generation, most definitely the one after that. Things will have to change and people do change, so maybe we will slowly shift to a better lifestyle in which to preserve and elongate the life of our planet. I'm just saying the couch potatoes of my generation certainly aren't going to do it. The government either. It's in their best interest to ruin the planet, not restrict the people's greed via environmental controls.
