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Called up an old acquaintance on the other side of the globe yesterday; I needed some electronic data and he blathered on for an hour about a new pogo stick, and a vertical takeoff aircraft for personal use with four hundred horsepower.
I need to create a wind generator system for my new house, and he's telling me I need More Watts; whereas I see a future where we all learn to get along with less, he sees a future with more; and if his enterprise doesn't offer the 'mores' and 'pluses', (he thinks) he'll lose customers.
I searched hundreds of TVchannels this afternoon and could not find one programme with environmental interest; no wildlife/conservation/seascapes/global warming/Cuddly-animals-in-disappearing-trees/altenative-energies/solar-challenges........nothing to tell me anyone else is waking up to a dreadful new day with no future for our children. Do any of your children work in environmental sciences? I've got a Marine Biologist, and a Change Management Specialist. And a hospitality management graduate. Two out of three ain't bad, but what do we all want? Is the 500 HP Porsche Cayman still your objective? Really? There's a man with a gun pointed straight at your children's head. What will you do? Have the .0001% of concerned population got to do the whole job?
Extreme futures need extreme measures.
Conservative futures need conservative measures.
I feel the world needs to be a bit more realistic; a hundred bucks a barrel for a product just pumped out of the ground? Fucks the ground, but what oilco puts the earth back to pristine after he's raped it? So who's costing 30% of that barrel for reparations to the globe it is polluting? Who wants to be accountable? Who should be accountable? Is there any correlation with the christian work ethic and the nation that consumes the most of these resources and the motto 'in God we trust'?? Is some hopeful character praying out there???
I love technical fabrics; I wear the whole gamut of sport technical clothing; layers 1,2,&3, and yet I know that duPont is one of the guiltiest polluters on this globe; they built their factories before and during the second world war, (parachutes were an early synthetic) and their investment is in the delivery of the new; the old production facility pollutes enormously; they won't change it, yet their product evolves constantly; can you explain that to me? They don't bother; they think I only read their advertising; I refuse to read the advertising; fucking hypocrites. But my fabrics come mostly from China, I'm sure, and trying to find an A+ clean producer is tough. We buy A+ refrigerators; why not grade the cloth factories too? (You DO read the labels, don't you?)
We're in the market for a new washing machine; I emailed the manufacturer of the one I fancy asking for a spare motor; no reply. Imagine him getting my business? Maybe he'd sell me a washing machine WITH a spare motor? What does it take to get service and attention? Our money is all?
Which do you really want? 'The Good Old Days' are gone; in every sense. No new value has any other attachment than the much vaunted 'bottom line' and who controls the bottom line controls the top, too, and you think you live in a free country? You who have a computer and the time to read this? The prison is self imposed and lives between your ears.
Nuff said.