Let's Smoke this City to the Filter

Good afternoon, clowns. Today, I am going to talk about what I've been thinking about lately, and those are a few things: global warming, what we do about it, and are wasteful tendencies as a species.

Okay, global warming... ta da! It's here! Global warming is something that I try not to care about and it's not because I don't care about the environment, but it is because our efforts to Go Green as the kids say is too little too late. If global warming is here like the scientists, or whoever the credible authoritative figures should be in this case, say it is, then we don't need to "go green," what we really need is a time machine to undo all the wrongdoings of the past seventy years or however long it would take. Sadly that's the way it is. And if this global warming is growing as rapidly as we see that it is, it leaves us with one question... Can going green really save anything?

Pretty much everyday of my life I go out and buy a beverage in a plastic bottle and if you are as cool as me, you probably do the same. Here's an alarming factiod for ya "About 30 million plastic bottles are being disposed Daily in the US - link them together and in a year, there will be enough to circle the Earth 15 times over." That disgusting, and that's only our countries plastic bottle waste. Ridiculous. Even though I find it absolutely repulsive that our country, other world inhabitants, and myself are producing so much waste, I do not plan to stop. Here's why. (First off, I would go green. I wouldn't like it, but I would. Only under the condition that everyone else did. Now you're probably thinking, "you should be a reasonable human being and take charge of your life and not have to wait around for the rest of the world to be a better earthling yourself." And you have a crappy point but to continue...) I would imagine because the GW is already here you cannot undo the effects that have already taken place, going green would have to be a massive global collaboration beginning the second you are reading this for any positive affect on the future. And my version of going green is not "I bought the hippie grocery bags to make myself look like a better person" or "I drive a hybrid so suck on my tail pipe." My version is one with maximum efficiency in recycling (note that I heard or read somewhere that only 15% of everything we recycle gets reused... makes the whole process seem like a waste in itself, don't it?)electric cars made out of glass, a lot less to no packaging on products, buying in bulk, etc... and when i mean less packaging on products I mean no box for a tube of toothpaste, or eliminating individually wrapped cashews. that shit has to go, they already serve no function in our lives. It would, in fact, be a convenience to remove them. Whatever. you get the point. I obviously wouldn't be the one in control of designing the ultimate go green project, some MIT losers would handle that.

Getting back to GW, who is to say that when the effects that are happening now come to full fruition that they won't be bad enough to put us flat on our asses and also how are we to predict how to deal with that changed version of earth? So, if you and your friends are going green and enjoy it, i say go for it and continue. I am not going to convince you to stop, I see that you are helping out. But, there's always a but when I'm in control, I also see it as a 1% versus the world of polluters type situation, making all of your efforts, not seemingly, but actually worthless. Pissing in the wind. But save the world, Captain Planet probably respects the shit out of you for it.

Obviously we don't know how things will pan out, but I will leave you with this. An old professor at the U of MA in Amherst once put a graph or some sort of chart that indicated that all or most of the worlds resources in less than 100 years from now will be very very low. remember when the water pipes burst a few months ago and people were getting into fights over bottles of water at the stores? I imagine that's what the world will be like a lot sooner when the real effects of global warming take places. I'm hope i'm dead and gone by then. All i'm saying is, if this world is the top of the slide, i'm shitting my pants down the whole way.

Tanks fo readin.