You know the score: rapidly diminishing natural resources, overpopulation, massive extinction, ecological collapse, and a climate in chaos. And this is just the opening act.
Look on the bright side: if the climate gets warmer and there's less food to go around... we'll be able to solve, once and for all, this country's obesity problem.
At some point, not too long ago, we sold our future out for a zero-sum survival strategy that was based on looting this planet of a viable future. We are a species caught in an arc of psychotic dementia: short-term pleasure seems a fair trade for medium-term annihilation. An entire world has been exchanged for a giant, primate orgasm.
Look on the bright side: if the climate gets warmer and there's less food to go around... we'll be able to solve, once and for all, this country's obesity problem.
ReplyDeleteSomeone stop the planet; I'd like to get off.
The People that need to hear it aren't listening. Me, I'm trying to do my part. I think my own personal set of genes suck.
ReplyDeleteToo many people are living in a tribal state and think they need to keep the breeding up for God/Village/Resources.
I could do with some more reproductive practice though.
At some point, not too long ago, we sold our future out for a zero-sum survival strategy that was based on looting this planet of a viable future.
ReplyDeleteWe are a species caught in an arc of psychotic dementia: short-term pleasure seems a fair trade for medium-term annihilation.
An entire world has been exchanged for a giant, primate orgasm.
An entire world has been exchanged for a giant, primate orgasm.
ReplyDeleteThat and reality TV.
"You know the score: rapidly diminishing natural resources, overpopulation, massive extinction, ecological collapse, and a climate in chaos."
ReplyDeleteSounds like the Republican platform for 2008....
--W.M. Bear