Environment & Energy

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We are really making progress as a species.

You may like graphic hatrack..I saw it somewhere years ago but can’t remember where:


I kept it as it was a rare find at the time in that it acknowledged human overpopulation as a serious environmental issue. Cato/Koch did a good job of shutting down that topic ably assisted by various kinds of useful idiots.

It makes a good companion piece to these two pictorial depictions of other fans of the planet..one for the Global North, one for the Global South. It still only covers two countries, but I couldn’t be bothered to go and collect graphics of creeps from China, Russia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe etc to be fair and balanced. I am not sure Western Europe is as huge a fan of the planet, though they are getting there.

At any rate, I felt that these two creeps represent all the other creeps in spirit. What do cultural, racial, national and religious differences matter when the heart is pure and bent on the same goal of planetary destruction development.

Going by how the left and right work, Kumbaya may well be accomplished by the right first as the left bickers and splinters, while that sort of single-minded commintment to cooperative, extractive rapaciousness has to be team building. All very heartwarming looked at correctly.

We don’t really have a left over here imo-or at least not one that makes even a perfunctory nod to environmentalism. It’s presented as a man versus ecosystem argument. Apparently instead of learning from the errors of the Global North we would like to add them to our indigenous errors. So that’s cool.





The second one is from the India Times. Sadly I can’t remember where the first one is from. It really captures the sensory effect overall.
This Salon writer I rather like, Chauncey DeVega, covers it very well..the shock to the human psyche of that style of theatre..

If anyone uses the internet to inform and educate, you do hatrack. Always thought that was cool.

I am becoming pretty overtly irascible myself lately..I came to the US in 2000..by 2003 I started noticing more consciously how fucked up everything was (specifically wrt the environment). I have been safely back in the Global South since 2014 and far from that nice man who runs that really cool holiday camp in El Salvador. He even has a sense of humor, which I like..he says things like Boom! on that other nice man’s creepy little informative and misunderstood site, as people are brutally taken away to gulags facilities.

My point though is that 22 odd years of pretending to be a mildly dim-witted, nice, gullible lady who buys that our great societies are not trying their best to burn the planet down is wearing on me…