We'll regret not caring more about the planet

Again - huge predictability in the responses on this thread.

It's too bad that we can't hear from future generations, and try to explain how instead of addressing their welfare, we went for political points and gotchas.
 
well on the bright side lack of potable water and food is going to kill off loads of people before long which will decrease polution in general and ease your concerns.
 
BartenderElite said:
Thanks - I actually am at the moment (and a Honda too - or possibly Toyota).

I drive very little. Less than 2K a year; I could probably go car-less, but need to do the occasional trip.
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2 k a YEAR!!!!? I do like 2000 a month. Sometimes much more. I have found the Honda's to be super reliable.
 
Stone said:
2 k a YEAR!!!!? I do like 2000 a month. Sometimes much more. I have found the Honda's to be super reliable.
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Yeah - I'm in a good public transport area. I usually just drive when I want to see family/friends outside my area.

Honda service & reliability is really good, for sure.
 
BartenderElite said:
And that's 100% truth. Future generations will look back & lament how this wasn't out #1 priority. They'll talk about how the warning signs were all around us, and we just ignored them: mass extinction, loss of habitat, droughts, storms, polar melt. They'll ask how we could have possibly thought any of this was sustainable. They'll think we were shortsighted, and stupid.

Most of all, they'll wonder how in the world it all became so political, so fast. How it could have possibly been a right/left thing, when all of us have a stake in the outcome.

Our future won't be pleasant. It may (or may not) be survivable - but it's all very predictable right now. And all of the other issues that we debate here, day in & day out? Pretty meaningless if we don't take care of our home.
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People my age won't suffer regrets. We'll be dead before it gets really bad.
But there's no question that it's going to get really bad.
Some scientists believe that we're past the tipping point and salvaging the planet is no longer possible.

In an infinite universe, there are probably planets where lifeforms similar to ourselves may go on for a while.
Won't do us any good, though.
 
BartenderElite said:
And that's 100% truth. Future generations will look back & lament how this wasn't out #1 priority. They'll talk about how the warning signs were all around us, and we just ignored them: mass extinction, loss of habitat, droughts, storms, polar melt. They'll ask how we could have possibly thought any of this was sustainable. They'll think we were shortsighted, and stupid.

Most of all, they'll wonder how in the world it all became so political, so fast. How it could have possibly been a right/left thing, when all of us have a stake in the outcome.

Our future won't be pleasant. It may (or may not) be survivable - but it's all very predictable right now. And all of the other issues that we debate here, day in & day out? Pretty meaningless if we don't take care of our home.
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Sad but true. Our family does what we can (we're off grid, vegan, spent much of our savings building an in-ground home powered by solar and wind and geothermal).

Sadly most of the West isn't interested in anything other than destruction and domination of nature and could never stand to live such a life, and the ones most affected live in third world countries that we rape of their resources and food.
 
Gondwanaland said:
Sad but true. Our family does what we can (we're off grid, vegan, spent much of our savings building an in-ground home powered by solar and wind and geothermal).

Sadly most of the West isn't interested in anything other than destruction and domination of nature and could never stand to live such a life, and the ones most affected live in third world countries that we rape of their resources and food.
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There is no upside to experiencing a life that's not comfortable and convenient.

If the rewards don't adequately compensate the travails, life is a net-negative experience and thus has no value.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
There is no upside to experiencing a life that's not comfortable and convenient.

If the rewards don't adequately compensate the travails, life is a net-negative experience and thus has no value.
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I don't live uncomfortably, nor unconveniently. I have plenty of comforts and conveniences. being self-sufficient and causing the least harm possible is only uncomfortable and inconvenient to the most spoiled silver-spoon bitches to walk the earth
 
Gondwanaland said:
I don't live uncomfortably, nor unconveniently. I have plenty of comforts and conveniences. being self-sufficient and causing the least harm possible is only uncomfortable and inconvenient to the most spoiled silver-spoon bitches to walk the earth
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The time to be a hippie was sixty years ago.
Having standards is not being a spoiled, silver-spoon bitch.
Accepting a mediocre standard of living is being a fool, however.
If you enjoy what a civilized person would consider a shit-life, so be it.
 
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