Greetings good citizen, throughout nature the rule is 'adapt or perish'. If you don't change with changing conditions you will find yourself deprived of your customary diet/habitat and will follow them into extinction.
Um, I know I'm already on the 'diverging track' but bear with me as I point at the 'elephant in the room', the one where the people in charge only have ONE playbook [it says 'more for me!] and they aren't entertaining any 'new ideas' at the moment. [Like a 'one note song'...]
Our world is changing. We are, er, 'normally/historically' an iceball but it seems as our sun's core accumulates iron and other, heavier elements, things here on the third planet are 'warming up'.
Now there isn't anything we can do about the sun getting hotter but there is something we can do about the greenhouse gases that are making the 'warm-up' worse. [The 'conditions' we rely on to 'thrive' really are 'razor thin'...]
Instead of smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, the group currently 'in charge' continues to use the last century's playbook and keeps turning out 'gas guzzlers'.
EVERY brand of vehicle now puts out a TRUCK...like it was necessary!
In order to 'initially' adapt to the dual crises of the scarcity of fossil fuels and solar driven atmospheric warming that is destroying agriculture around the globe, we need to adopt 'alternative energy' in a big way! THEN WE NEED TO REDESIGN OUR ECONOMIES SO THE NEED FOR TRANSPORT IS MINIMIZED! Transporting goods 'halfway around the planet' isn't 'more efficient' when they can be made locally just as easily! AND AS CHEAPLY!
Since all money is 'funny' cost is actually non-existent, except the extra pollutants added to the atmosphere to move this stuff 12,000 miles unnecessarily!
ALL economies are LOCAL.
Capitalism is extremely 'wasteful' because much of what is produced is done 'on spec' [speculation, what they THINK will 'sell'.] We Really can't afford to keep doing this! but this is the 'one note song' they refuse to deviate from. The one that goes 'more for me!' over and over again!]
This is why nobody can live in an 'economic desert.' [Yet many are forced to!]by that 'tone deaf' operating system we have no choice in using. But enough 'complaining', it doesn't fix anything.
We need to focus on what crops/animals tolerate the heat and how to cultivate them as well.
While 'free range' is all the rage in animal husbandry, it may soon be a non-starter as the deserts get larger and the range dwindles to nothing...Tough nut to crack when our oceans are nearly fished out. We need to start managing what's left much more carefully!
BUT those running our civilization think we either aren't experiencing a problem or there's 'plenty of time' to act.
Naturally, the 'problem' is warming isn't the only thing that's happening...and another ice age would end us!
[Only a relative handful of humans/animals survived the last ice age.]
Is it really a case of 'que sera, sera' or do you think with a little bit of planning and foresight we can [most of us anyway] get through this?
Because those currently in charge aren't lifting a finger [to save as many of us as possible...and you have to wonder about that.] Do you really want to get into a debate about who is 'worth saving' and who ISN'T?
Because in my opinion anyone that thinks even one of us 'isn't worth saving' is the one we should abandon as 'defective'.
Using that 'logic' what does this say about the oligarchs and their minions, our 'elected leaders'?
Yup, scratch them all!
The headlines tell us our 'trigger happy' police and the courts that curiously don't find anything wrong with this...think we should scratch them too?
No brainer! Exile!
What's that? NOW the clueless are interested in 'addressing' our problems?
What part of 'too little, too late' don't you get?
We've 'gone along to get along' our entire lives, never quite comfortable with what we were required to turn a 'blind eye' to but if you didn't...let's just say they had ways to make you wish you had.
What started off as being 'rewarded' for our compliance turned into tip-toeing across broken glass just so we didn't lose the little bit we managed to accumulate...and even that turned into a 'losing battle'.
Well. like the old saying goes, when you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hold on!
Understand, the 'calvary' isn't coming. If we are going to be saved we have to do it ourselves!
Are you with me?
I can't hear you...
Gegner
Um, I know I'm already on the 'diverging track' but bear with me as I point at the 'elephant in the room', the one where the people in charge only have ONE playbook [it says 'more for me!] and they aren't entertaining any 'new ideas' at the moment. [Like a 'one note song'...]
Our world is changing. We are, er, 'normally/historically' an iceball but it seems as our sun's core accumulates iron and other, heavier elements, things here on the third planet are 'warming up'.
Now there isn't anything we can do about the sun getting hotter but there is something we can do about the greenhouse gases that are making the 'warm-up' worse. [The 'conditions' we rely on to 'thrive' really are 'razor thin'...]
Instead of smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, the group currently 'in charge' continues to use the last century's playbook and keeps turning out 'gas guzzlers'.
EVERY brand of vehicle now puts out a TRUCK...like it was necessary!
In order to 'initially' adapt to the dual crises of the scarcity of fossil fuels and solar driven atmospheric warming that is destroying agriculture around the globe, we need to adopt 'alternative energy' in a big way! THEN WE NEED TO REDESIGN OUR ECONOMIES SO THE NEED FOR TRANSPORT IS MINIMIZED! Transporting goods 'halfway around the planet' isn't 'more efficient' when they can be made locally just as easily! AND AS CHEAPLY!
Since all money is 'funny' cost is actually non-existent, except the extra pollutants added to the atmosphere to move this stuff 12,000 miles unnecessarily!
ALL economies are LOCAL.
Capitalism is extremely 'wasteful' because much of what is produced is done 'on spec' [speculation, what they THINK will 'sell'.] We Really can't afford to keep doing this! but this is the 'one note song' they refuse to deviate from. The one that goes 'more for me!' over and over again!]
This is why nobody can live in an 'economic desert.' [Yet many are forced to!]by that 'tone deaf' operating system we have no choice in using. But enough 'complaining', it doesn't fix anything.
We need to focus on what crops/animals tolerate the heat and how to cultivate them as well.
While 'free range' is all the rage in animal husbandry, it may soon be a non-starter as the deserts get larger and the range dwindles to nothing...Tough nut to crack when our oceans are nearly fished out. We need to start managing what's left much more carefully!
BUT those running our civilization think we either aren't experiencing a problem or there's 'plenty of time' to act.
Naturally, the 'problem' is warming isn't the only thing that's happening...and another ice age would end us!
[Only a relative handful of humans/animals survived the last ice age.]
Is it really a case of 'que sera, sera' or do you think with a little bit of planning and foresight we can [most of us anyway] get through this?
Because those currently in charge aren't lifting a finger [to save as many of us as possible...and you have to wonder about that.] Do you really want to get into a debate about who is 'worth saving' and who ISN'T?
Because in my opinion anyone that thinks even one of us 'isn't worth saving' is the one we should abandon as 'defective'.
Using that 'logic' what does this say about the oligarchs and their minions, our 'elected leaders'?
Yup, scratch them all!
The headlines tell us our 'trigger happy' police and the courts that curiously don't find anything wrong with this...think we should scratch them too?
No brainer! Exile!
What's that? NOW the clueless are interested in 'addressing' our problems?
What part of 'too little, too late' don't you get?
We've 'gone along to get along' our entire lives, never quite comfortable with what we were required to turn a 'blind eye' to but if you didn't...let's just say they had ways to make you wish you had.
What started off as being 'rewarded' for our compliance turned into tip-toeing across broken glass just so we didn't lose the little bit we managed to accumulate...and even that turned into a 'losing battle'.
Well. like the old saying goes, when you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hold on!
Understand, the 'calvary' isn't coming. If we are going to be saved we have to do it ourselves!
Are you with me?
I can't hear you...
Gegner
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