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The fucking up is still accelerating, with fracking and the rise of China with its effect on pollution and resource consumption just being two examples. What's
by cmarschner 12y ago
The fucking up is still accelerating, with fracking and the rise of China with its effect on pollution and resource consumption just being two examples.
What's so striking is the fact that despite being a generation that is blessed with having access to all the world's information we are still not enlightened, meaning we are still not able to strive for global optima rather than our own short-term benefit. One would think that as a civilization we should have advanced more.
- aragot 12y agoThere are 3 things our descendant would have a facepalm for. They could carrot the ice over the last thousand year and notice a short time when all the oil we dug up from underground would form a thick deposit all around the globe in various forms. They might even happen to know we had a different word for economy and ecology. Worse, it may reach their ears our most common way of expressing this concern was to like campaigns on facebook. We should build a big facepalm statue in memory for our children.
- steve19 12y agoHalf the oil that enters the sea comes form natural sources. It is consumed by organisms able to metabolize hydrocarbons. Source: http://www.whoi.edu/oilinocean/page.do?pid=51880 http://www.whoi.edu/oilinocean/page.do?pid=51880 Thus, I don't think anyone would expect the world to be covered in oil.
- azinman2 12y agoThe paradox of too much information / choice. You become desensitized and thus as a populous just resort to self-preservation. That echoes from the sources of pollution all the way to the consumers. Either culture needs to change and make it a priority, or businesses need to be disrupted by better choices so the old guard can die.