Looking Forward
May. 20th, 2015 05:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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There are some other articles out there painting a similar picture - about 40 years for oil seems to be a common figure.
It's of incredible concern, you know? But it's like the world has blinders on. This isn't talked about much in mainstream media...there's no push for conservation of oil, energy, or precious metals. There's been no slow down in manufacturing and advertising pressures as much or more as ever for greater consumption to drive the markets higher and higher. New markets are opening up and expanding very rapidly in parts of the world that contain a much greater proportion of population than the west does, in addition to a much greater need because they are not yet fully modernized...and therefore, they have a much higher propensity for abuse of finite resources.
Maybe it's not mainstream because it's sensationalist and incorrect - but I intuit that this is not the case, and the references I can find seem legitimate. If we don't transition into dominant forms of green, renewable energy, I can't even fathom the kinds of horrors civilization will face in the next fifty years. This is in addition to the looming disaster that climate change appears to be, and the apparent inevitability of water scarcity in the most populated areas worldwide.
Are we running on rails towards devastation, or is it just another generation's falling sky?
There are some other articles out there painting a similar picture - about 40 years for oil seems to be a common figure.
It's of incredible concern, you know? But it's like the world has blinders on. This isn't talked about much in mainstream media...there's no push for conservation of oil, energy, or precious metals. There's been no slow down in manufacturing and advertising pressures as much or more as ever for greater consumption to drive the markets higher and higher. New markets are opening up and expanding very rapidly in parts of the world that contain a much greater proportion of population than the west does, in addition to a much greater need because they are not yet fully modernized...and therefore, they have a much higher propensity for abuse of finite resources.
Maybe it's not mainstream because it's sensationalist and incorrect - but I intuit that this is not the case, and the references I can find seem legitimate. If we don't transition into dominant forms of green, renewable energy, I can't even fathom the kinds of horrors civilization will face in the next fifty years. This is in addition to the looming disaster that climate change appears to be, and the apparent inevitability of water scarcity in the most populated areas worldwide.
Are we running on rails towards devastation, or is it just another generation's falling sky?
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Date: 2015-05-22 08:10 pm (UTC)That's why the movement to keep oil in the ground needs our support. The American proletariat are not very happy right now - they're starting to grok that it's the oil companies who are in large measure responsible for their economic woes; the fact that they work hard all their lives, save their money as best they can, and still can't afford to own a home or go to the hospital. And despite the stunningly well-funded campaign against it, the truth about climate change is starting to get through to some people. California has a terrible drought already, and now it also has a devastating oil spill; a lot of people who didn't want to pay attention are going to have to now.
Now is the time to drum up support for the American Anti-Corruption Act, and to overturn Citizens United, so the corporations can't just buy our government outright.
Imagine if political activism went viral all over the country - the populace rising up, but not in stupid street-demonstrations that just tie up traffic and get people tear-gassed - rather, in texts and e-mails to the Congress-critters themselves, and to all the aspiring Congress-critters in State and local government.
The owners of these mega-corporations, the 1%, don't give a shit about the rest of the human race, and refuse to listen to those who say they're destroying the planet. A lot of the bigwigs of the Republican party are Dominionists, and don't care about saving the Earth because they believe we're in the 'Last Days' anyway, and the Earth is doomed.
Unless we get those assholes out of power in a whole lot less than 30 years, they're probably right about that.