Reply #25: Here's another possible problem. (And Barb, you're cool!) [View All]

[Gregorian]

I have just spent the last thirty years alone and depressed. Sure, I worked. Sure I went to college. Sure I played in bands. Sure I had a few girlfriends. But I was alone. Everyone was geared to breed and drive and not think about what the results would be. The mindset is just about as large as the fence around their houses. I'm not perfect, but I see the world as a big globe. Not my family in it's house. Actually, I don't have kids, and never will. One billion was enough. Too many, in fact. Even one billion was destroying the planet. The reason we looked for petroleum was that we had used up the whale oil!
Wow, it's nice to know there are some people like you out there

Now I spent the last five years in the forests of Mendocino and Humboldt county. I've ridden my bicycle extensively through these hills. And the moment this chimpanzee took office, the trees suddenly became horizontal, and hit the highway. I am appauled. But it's not Bush, it's not the loggers, although they certainly are a bunch of assholes for doing what they're doing. It's the breeders. And this is my big problem with DU. Well not really DU. DU is a political forum. But here we are yapping about Bush, when the real problem has gone nearly unaddressed. I even see that Edwards has four kids- he doesn't get it. But I have digressed from whatever pathetic idea I had. As I have watched the incredible and magical forests of Humboldt turn to literally patches of bare earth, (and I am a mechanic, so using the word "magical" is not one of my standard terms. I had to experience it.) I have come to realize what I believe is another factor in global warming. I suppose I'm wasting my time here. But when we cut trees, the sun hits the earth directly. You would never notice it, unless you were going about rapidly through the forest, like I do. It's COLD in a forest, even in the summer. But the moment you get into the cut up area, it's 90 degrees. Well, you get the idea. Even if it's not scientifically accurate, the idea is that where the earth was cool, it is now hot.
So we have the candle burning at both ends. And more people arriving.

I spent the last many years in a state far more serious than just watching George Bush mispronounce nukular. I now have the ability to buy a little bit of paradise, until that too is ruined. So I may find a modicum of happiness in the interim. But watching this total stupidity and inconsideration, and lack of leadership that listens to scientific reason, let alone condemning birth control, has been literally maddening and sickening. I now live in a nieghborhood that is totally out of control. People don't work, and they drive their Humvee's and monster four by fours all day. All DAY! They never stop. Sometimes the husband passes the wife on the road going the other way. They have weekly garbage pickup, while I bring my two cans down to the dump once every four or five MONTHS.

Whatever. My brain hurts. Stupid humans. And I agree that it's too late. The planet will survive, but it's the quality of our lives that suffered. It killed me. And I count. In fact I think I count double, since I care.

Sorry. This is what gets typed out when I haven't had my coffee. :)