happily destroying gaia

HAPPILY DESTROYING GAIA


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Once again, what we have here is a failure to communicate. For everyone trying to save the planet, as noble as the effort might be, there is a million fold resistance rallying around the need to eat. Now, I can’t say for sure the extent of the danger we face from human activity defacing the ecosystem. We could all be about to die as greenhouse gases shoot up to levels not seen since The Flintstone’s. Or, in about twenty years without seeing anymore human intervention, Earth could end up looking pretty normal. I suspect it is the later, only because our puny species is pretty impotent compared to Mom. I mean, how many thermonuclear devices does it take to equal the power of a regular sized volcanic eruption? But it doesn’t matter what I think. Nor does it matter what Al Gore thinks. What matters is what the Jones’ and the Rodriquez’s think. And they could give two craps about wiping out hundreds of millions of acres of nature as long as Jones Junior or Little Jose has bread or tortillas on his plate the next morning. I imagine right about now you are, as usual, scratching your head and wondering what in the name of all that is holy and good I’m doing blathering on about this crap. I was meandering on over at the Energy Bulletin website the other day and I ran into a very well written article on the ethanol industry in Nebraska, which brought all this to mind. And, of course the actions of all the other mouth breathers out there will effect your personal environment so it is of course directly related to your survival. Myself, I enjoy studying environmental changes ( I worry more about ocean currents and El Nino’s impacting the snow on our mountains, for instance ). It gives me another dimension on collapse to worry about. You should also be concerned. If you farm/garden for your survival food, shouldn’t you study how the future weather pattern changes might impact that?

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I can’t remember much on the above cited article. It was pointing out the drawing down of the main aquifer and the soil infertility. But it also mentioned how the local population was more than happy to go along with this intensive mining of the areas resources. They would drive a hundred miles a day to work at these ethanol jobs, to help make ends meet on the regular farm ( you grow corn all day, it doesn’t pay enough, so you fill the tank with corn fuel you bought from the processor you work at for a second job ). Ah, the consent of the oppressed. The fruits of global trade. Sure, in a perfect world the federal government, rather than subsidizing mega-corporations genetically modified corn to ethanol programs would protect and encourage small decentralized farms, and the farmer would be prosperous and happy. Instead, we have federal policies that do everything possible to centralize and factory orientate agriculture for more than a few generations worth of farmers, beat them down economically, until at this point the poor schlubs are actually grateful to work twice as hard to get half the pay ( as opposed to a quarter they were getting previously ). I take off my propeller topped beanie cap in admiration of these geniuses in industry and governance for coming up with such a brilliant solution to the problem of civil unrest. Work them to an inch of their lives, then toss them a bone, they gratefully wag their tale at you and work even harder, thinking it was their idea. As we’ve talked about previously, the entire population happily goes along with their enslavement for a few pieces of nickel plated copper coin, thinking it is silver. But here I’d stipulate that they also happily go along with polluting their own homes and killing their own soil for said same play-silver ( the tiny surplus left over from bills will be used to pay interest on debt for previous shiny toys to give their pathetic and sad lives meaning ).

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Every single one of us happily goes about destroying the globe for money or entertainment, or, heck, even sanitation ( toilet paper ). We won’t change a thing, so you might as well make up your mind that whatever the consequences of our actions, you will see them and no action will be taken to minimize or stop the activity.

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Sometimes I really wonder what the heck people are thinking. Honestly, if you are running a propaganda media outlet, shouldn’t there be some kind of vetting process? Shouldn’t there be an over all Policy Czar? The Soviets had a much better employment policy than Obammy, I’ll tell you that much. Every tenth person ( or whatever the percentage is ) was imbedded in a group as a Thought Policeman ( I can’t recall their title off hand ). They were there to ensure official policy was not only followed, but that everyone had the desired positive attitude about it. The cost? Feeding and clothing them. Apartments were state owned, and food was heavily subsidized. Retirement was just enough to buy the subsidized food ( I think vodka was also in that category ). Obviously, NPR needs one of those Soviet dudes. Here they are, in the forefront of disseminating official US group think, that the middle east is in fact NOT in the middle of famine caused riots, rebellion or civil war ( those that are not, are having instability fostered by Western intelligence services ), but merely a gentle and peace loving people forced to overthrow an evil tyrant. And yet, they also include a report on the Egyptian Sinai region in anarchy. Almost no police presence, black market arms are easily available, if expensive, and the Bedouin tribes are getting uppity. Happy aftermath of achieved democracy? Or, failing state? Kind of like our southern border region ( at one time a corporate approved plot to lower overall wages here, now a sign of collapse since the employment growth is in their own country [ one can only imagine the only incentive to sneak in are the welfare states ] ). Next up, Saudi Arabia and its ten percent of global oil output.

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