by Hanover Fist » Fri Oct 22, 10 2:36 am
It's absolutely true that the media degrades rather than informs, and it IS being controlled by the dwindling baby boomers that run most countries. They don't give a shit about consumerism and its detrimental effect it will have on future generations because they won't be around for it.
There's up and coming technology that is a perfectly logical alternative to what we use today. I'm considering getting solar panels installed on my house. Not only will it be cheaper than paying the rising rates (rising in spite of evident less use of kilowatts) but the rates of solar energy would go down because Edison will be sending me checks for shared usage of the energy my solar panels absorb but don't use (and there's is a lot that won't be used).
So long as I live in California, where the coldest winter days are like 65 degrees Fahrenheit and the sun is always out, it is a good investment.
But I digress, fossil fuels are what I think about the most when I think about mass resource consumption in the world. If the world went green it would benefit the Gen X's and Y's and it makes sense to do it now.
Don't let the Baby boomers milk fossil fuels for every cent. Fucking go green and stop inflation, make alternative energy cheaper by helping make it mainstream, stop needless conflict in the middle east over oil, and stop being controlled by politicians just because of their age. Sure they have experience, but when idealism and realism FOR ONCE clash positively together and these fruits ignore the prospect, it's time to stop letting them run the show.
I don't know how it is overseas, but in the U.S. the only thing I see whenever I watch the news is someone bitching about who said nigger on their talkshow, missing children who are found weeks later at a rapists house, and only about 20 or less minutes of actual election coverage.
Newspapers are the only place I can get news anymore and they're dying out because of the internet. It seems ironic that the more technologically advanced we get, the more ignorant. Mostly thanks to things like twitter and facebook, people wasting their time consorting on "electronic social networks" and forgetting how to interact with eachother in person.
Shit's gotta change because we're going into a metaphorical dark age and no one even realizes it.
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