Well “brah”, I have news for you, your life would suck compared to what it is if it weren’t for capitalism and greedy corporations. If you are going to pretend to be a true environmentalist then that guitar there in your avatar, you need to kiss it goodbye because it is made of plastics, steel, wood, polymers and other environmentally unfriendly components as is the shirt you wear, the toothbrush you hopefully use, the soap you hopefully use, the house you live in, the car or bicycle you ride/drive, the salad you eat, the water you drink, the toilet you crap in and the paper you wipe your butt with etc.
You see, nearly everything in your life involves some “environmentally unfriendly” component to it if you buy into the BS so you need to start sending me a check for $100 every day you wake up and live your life because you are destroying the planet by consuming and producing goods that hurt the planet. If you send me the money, I will ask Mother Earth to forgive you for your sins, and she will because she is my hoe and I am her pimp, and you can go on about your life feeling like the burden of guilt has been lifted because you are doing your part and you are saving the planet.
Sound like a deal brah?
I never have understood why so many insist on reducing everything to the point of absurdity. Aside from the fact it is a common persuasion tactic.
A long time ago I became concerned about the course of the world.
I have always been contemptuous of the throwaway world we live in.
To be honest I decided that I didn't want to work my life away playing a game someone else made up that I am required to play.
"Get with the program" always raised questions like "What program?", "Who made up this program?, and "Why does this program look like BS like all the other programs devised exclusively by kings and tycoons?"
Long story short, I don't have lots of disposable things, I have fewer very well made, durable things.
Following this model would allow us to have the things we have grown accustomed to while ameliorating the toxicity of their production.
Alternative energy technology should have saved us from the current changes occuring worldwide. But we decided to defend the fossil fuel industries instead, harping on whether global warming is real or not.
The rest of the world believes it is, and is eager to purchase these technologies. That alone should have convinced us to do what we always have before, which is provide the world with the tech we so easily devise.
But no, China is kicking our asses in this area as well, and I doubt we could catch up now if we decided to try.
And the right talks to the left like they're daft children if any responsibility in regards to our fragile biosphere is even mentioned.
And there ARE demonstrable problems manifesting worldwide in the health of the planet we depend on for our survival. Reef die offs, a huge trash whirlpool in the middle of the Pacific, extinctions everywhere. There were "environmental cascades" being studied when I was a kid, where one of those worms or whatever that are constantly being dismissed as irrelevant became extinct and turned out to be key to the survival of its local biology dragging the rest of the local ecology down with it.
And I'm not sure that mercantilism and non-corporate businesses couldn't have provided the world we live in as well as capitalism and corporate business has.
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