Reply #24: In a word: CONSUMPTION [View All]

[Carolab]

I think this is article posits from an erroneous assumption: that the truth won't sink in.

People need to know this and to learn that the REAL culprit here is consumption.

We MAKE too much crap that uses fossil fuels. We BUY too much crap that uses fossil fuels. We DRIVE too much and in vehicles that consume too much fossil fuel.

People need an education and FAST about cutting consumption.

Instead, these "leaders" seem to think the answer is in killing people off and destroying the planet in their wake, to get to the remaining supplies.

If they are so damned concerned about it, we would be drastically curtailing the use of fossil fuels in manufacturing of anything that is not essential. The GREED that drives the economy is what is killing us here--people buying all of the cheap junk that is made in China and sold at Wal-Mart.

We need to get back to a simpler style of life, closer to the earth, and without all of the material things that everything thinks they need.

Look around you and see how much junk you own that you never use, never needed, and that has wasted precious resources. Why is it there? Why do you have it? Because you have been told to go out and SHOP, that's why!