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How Green Was My Upper Middle Class

Aug 03, 2010 18:12

When I was a child in the 1970s, there was something called The Ecology ( Read more... )

environment, ecology, failure, usa, marketing, capital it fails us now

Comments 19

handstil August 4 2010, 01:19:28 UTC

Applause! <3

nosrialleon August 4 2010, 01:38:28 UTC

Brilliant. I have nothing to add except that in your description of The Ecology you neglected to include the Italian guy dressed as an Injun chief and his single tear.

Also: nosrialleon August 4 2010, 01:39:56 UTC

As time goes on I find myself more and more in need of my Booji Boy icon to the exclusion of all the others.

jamie_miller August 4 2010, 01:40:59 UTC

All of the problems caused by consumerism will be solved by more consumerism.

firepower August 4 2010, 02:21:19 UTC

Oh exactly.

And thanks for this, substitute.

microbie August 4 2010, 02:11:41 UTC

Well done!

every party has its pooper kafkateer August 4 2010, 02:26:26 UTC

ugh, DOWNER.

(the message around here is use less stuff. a friend told me that if everyone did this, the economy will be shitty and people will be poor and angry forever. "less stuff" also makes the girls feel like they are worse off than their friends who all have laptops and televisions in their rooms and stuff. i can't win)

Re: every party has its pooper substitute August 4 2010, 03:07:53 UTC

"Less stuff" on every scale is the only possible and only impossible fix. As Sam Beckett said, "I'll go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."

Re: every party has its pooper kafkateer August 4 2010, 04:03:14 UTC

right, exactly that. small changes add up, etc. and most days i manage to be optimistic-ish.

other days, though. BOY I LIKE STAYING UP FOREVER WORRYING ABOUT SHIT IT IS THE BEST FEELING!

Re: every party has its pooper taskboy3000 August 4 2010, 12:53:46 UTC

We need either fewer people or less personal freedom.

A drastically and suddenly reduced human population would solve our resource/pollution issues for some time.

An autocratic world mono-government could force people to live within tight resource parameters.

The choice of getting more resources doesn't seem likely in the near-term. The option of moving people off-planet is equally remote. Getting groups of people to act responsibly has proven impossible (see The Tragedy of the Commons problem).

Sorry to be such a downer, but really: too many damned people.