So, instead of the baby boomers we should blame China?
I have nothing against the baby boomers ... OK, well I do, and I don't absolve myself or my generation from blame. However, these crises all seem to be coming to a head while the baby boomers are in the height of their power both here and overseas. But we, of all generations, are the ones who put them in power in the first place, eh?
Being in the field I am in (and my paying job ain't music), I know that no matter what we do to the planet, it will survive just find, wiping us off the map neatly and cleaning and going back to ticking along. We might screw ourselves over, but don't kid yourself. "Save the planet" is just "save the humans". The climate has a funny way of readjusting itself after crisis.
That is not to say we shouldn't get our habits more in line with what can actually be sustained on the planet. We're at a crossroads where we need to do one of two things: (1) reduce consumption to live within the means of the planets or (2) figure out how to get resources/live on other planets.
Otherwise we'll end of with (3) extinction of the humans.
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Erik Gonzalez said on March 29, 2008:
So, instead of the baby boomers we should blame China?
I have nothing against the baby boomers ... OK, well I do, and I don't absolve myself or my generation from blame. However, these crises all seem to be coming to a head while the baby boomers are in the height of their power both here and overseas. But we, of all generations, are the ones who put them in power in the first place, eh?
Being in the field I am in (and my paying job ain't music), I know that no matter what we do to the planet, it will survive just find, wiping us off the map neatly and cleaning and going back to ticking along. We might screw ourselves over, but don't kid yourself. "Save the planet" is just "save the humans". The climate has a funny way of readjusting itself after crisis.
That is not to say we shouldn't get our habits more in line with what can actually be sustained on the planet. We're at a crossroads where we need to do one of two things: (1) reduce consumption to live within the means of the planets or (2) figure out how to get resources/live on other planets.
Otherwise we'll end of with (3) extinction of the humans.