The future will only contain what we put into it now.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Feb. 10, 2009 -- During His inauguration speech, President
Barack Obama declared: “We will not apologize for our way of life,
nor will we waver in its defense.”
Hmm... if His Holiness is really defending
my way of life, he's slaughtering civilians and wasting billions
in taxpayer dollars in the name of atheism, anarchism, veganism, and
so on. How odd...
Here’s a news flash for the Pope of
Hope: “Our way of life” (in the more general sense) not only needs
to be apologized for, it needs to be permanently altered... in a major
way. Americans constitute 5 percent of the world's population but consume
24 percent of the world's energy. On average, one American consumes as much
energy as two Japanese, six Mexicans, 13 Chinese, 31 Indians, 128 Bangladeshis,
280 Haitians, and 307 Tanzanians.
Ponder this: a human born in America
will have, on average, 370 times more of an environmental impact than
a human born in Ethiopia. Let the president of Ethiopia eschew lifestyle
apologies (for now). Here in the United States of Consumption, we lack
that luxury. As Paul Hawken sez: “Really going green, means having
less. It does mean less. Everyone is saying, ‘You don’t have to
change your lifestyle.’ Well, yes, actually, you do.”
To borrow from the Situationists, in
May of 1968: The future will only contain what we put into it now.
Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
