Yeah, I been wondering about that, seems like, forever.
Instead of paying attention to thermostats and turning off lights,
rewire and computerize the entire house to do it for us “more efficiently.”
The problem was doing with a bit less was a total nonstarter for everyone with any money and they owned the mega phone. Instead of learning about our evolution and about Earth, we learned that he who dies with the most toys wins, we preached that too much is never enough and it permeated every aspect of our being and living.
Sad thing is that people have been acting like fools since forever. Consuming more is all that’s seemed to matter, since forever. Instead of two holes for water to rush through and flush, let’s build a hundred fifty dollar complicated pressured (constant maintenance requiring) unit to force water down the poop shoot faster.
Here’s a what if:
What if, when manufacturing really kicked in and people started noticing the down side of too much consumerism - namely too natural resource destruction and too much obsolete trash, etc.
Think of how different it would have been had we any incentive for being thoughtful towards Earth and the biosphere that is the only life support system we have? -
Tire manufactures, collecting their spent tires. Aren’t they the one’s in the best position to know how to reuse the raw materials.
All the way down the line, refrigerators, appliances - all these manufacturers are best placed to figure out repurposing options. Why not? All it would have taken was the desire - a little thoughtfulness to understand why it was important to tread lightly with our resources. A desire to do one’s part to nurture Earth - what did we choose ridiculing environment and disregarding the future.
We never accepted looking at the dark side of what all our affluence was doing to our natural biosphere, it was always all Hollywood, - any and all complainers were communists and all those horrors…
But all that belongs to things we should have taken more serious back in the '70s and '80s. We didn’t, now we start paying. GOP with their utterly ruthless avarice, Democrats lost in their good times, with presidents that didn’t have the sense to appreciate the forces conspiring - not knowing how to keep one’s picker in their pants, or being so self absorbed that the other forgets to nurture, let alone keep together the grassroots machine that his charisma created.
But, the sad truth is, we get the government we deserve and America never wanted any better.
Like blind sheep we followed GOP into an endless, self destructive war, after 9/11, that paved the way for the downfall we have witnessed these past decades.
Then, . . . we knew damned well what a monster that NY trump was, because the media had been force feeding us his disgusting life and attitudes. I mean his open history is one of a consummate free loader, low life and dishonorable, slimy as a human can be,
and a huge portion of this country embraced him with passion the left can’t muster for the life of 'em.
Oh but I digress.
Back on point. You’re right all the mega windmills in the world won’t do a thing for “saving” our biosphere.
Oh, and sure, the biosphere will survive, but over the next thousand plus years, while what we have wrought this past century and particularly half century, plays out.
It will certainly be battered to a feeble remnant of what it was back went I graduated high school. What’s utterly mind boggling, I’m 66, not 166 years old, we knew what we were doing. I never thought we’d chose to ignore for decade after decade of increasing warnings.
We all choose to delude ourselves, every chance we got. Now . . .
