Here is a stunning passage from Kurt Vonneguts book, A Man Without A Country ... a great read, BTW. Ya better sit on your helmets, this is a real rock and roller. Our close cousins the gorilla and orangs and chimps and gibbon apes have gotten along just fine all this time while eating raw vegetable matter, whereas we not only prepared hot meals but have not all but destroyed this once salubrious planet as a life-support system in fewer than two hundred years, mainly by making thermodynamic whoopee with fossil fuels. The Englishman Michael Faraday built the first electric generator only a hundred and seventy-two years ago. The German Karl Benz built the automobile powered by a internal combustion engine only a hundred and nineteen years ago. The first oil well in the USA, no a dry hole, was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin L. Drake only a hundred and forty-five years ago. The American Wright brothers, of course, built and flew the first airplane only a hundred and on years ago. It was powered by gasoline. You want to talk about irresistible whoopee? A booby trap. Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out. No more electricity. All forms of transportation are about to stop, and the planet Earth will soon have a crust of skulls and bones and dead machinery. And nobody can do a thing about it. Its too late in the game. Dont spoil the party, but heres the truth: We have squandered our planets resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isnt going to be on. So there goes the Junior prom, but thats not the half of it. So how do you like those apples. Eat and enjoy while you can, according to Kurt. Of course, we all have we living as thought people like Kurt Vonnegut and 97% of the sciences (whatever) in the world are wrong ... as though they are the ones that are nuts. We know better, right ... we lazy arm chair know it alls, who cant even add correctly, multiply or divide Here is hoping, right? As my poker playing fiends like to say, We all in!
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:09:17 +0000
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