To All The Earth's I've Loved Before...

Hi there. How are you? Feeling good? Did that prick in accounting finally get nailed for downloading streaming videos of Brittany bombing on the VMA's? Did your boss get a mad case of mudbutt during her monthly meeting? Did your precious little Johnny get a C+ in history? Who gives a fuck? These are tiny, meaningless victories as easily forgotten as they were hard won.
I watched a few videos tonight on CNN's website. Mostly Anderson Cooper videos (Fuck yeah! Channel One star making good with his prematuring white hair!!!!) It was basically a montage of all the ill effects us humans are having on the environment, but backed with the newest R.E.M. song!!! Can you dig it? Color me surprised. Here I am, grooving to the newest single from that band that was big while the first Bush was in office and BAM, all of a sudden , I realize I'm processing a public service announcement. Too bad I was only listening to that shit in the background while I watched streaming videos of your boss getting a mad case of mudbutt during the VMA's. What I was left with, as I listened to Michael Freakin' Stipe wax philisophic about our fourth "near crisis" in regard to the environment, was this: We're fucked.
Take the rainforest, for example. Why are countries in the Amazon destroying 20-40% of our oxygen producing plants (For those of you in the cheap seats, humans need oxygen to breath)? Well, it's because these countries have no other way of sustaining their economy, of course. Do you think these mofo's are out there sweating their asses off cutting down trees because being an accountant entails too much schooling? Fuck no! It's because lumber is their #1 export and their #2 export is usually illegal in most countries. It goes without mentioning that Carbon emissions from deforestation are one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases (http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-deforestation.html). So these "evil" countries are destroying our oxygen output while adding to the ever growing global warming problem. How do we get them to stop? The easiest way would be government funding their economies with financial incentives directed at exploring other alternatives to stabilize their economies. The problem with this is, our fucking government doesn't have the money to fund the oil producing countries we already promised favors to and fight 2 wars, let alone throw money at these other countries (that goes for other world leading countries, including France, England China and Germany, though their money is not nearly as invested as the USA's in regard to oil producing countries). That fact may lead you to ask why are we subsidizing countries who produce oil? Countries who produce oil tend to be the wealthiest countries, per capita, in the world. The answer is this. Countries who receive money, and protection, from the United States give us a break on their oil prices. The English, whose country does subsidize oil producing countries, pay roughly $6 per gallon of gasoline. Us Americans threw fits when our gas prices hit $3 per gallon. Would we really, really, stand to pay $6 per gallon of gasoline if we knew it was to divert $$ away from oil producing countries in order to subsidize lumber producing companies if we knew it was to ensure our great grand children wouldn't have to walk the earth with oxygen tanks on their backs? No, we wouldn't. It's become now a proven fact and I think at this late date it would be too late to try. Even Tom Brady couldn't produce a fourth quarter comeback against the damage we've inflicted upon the earth. The brightest of us retards didn't stand up and take notice until they heard the death rattle.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote something to the effect, and I'm really paraphrasing here, that the earth was doomed and we should all try and live as comfortably as we could in light of that fact. I don't think he was joking and I agree with him. Our country is what it is and has been for a long, long time. I don't think it's citizens, my citizens, are willing to make the sacrifices it would take to change that. Working in health care, I've heard horror stories of people who are literally dying of cancer but who still insist on walking their IV bags out to the sidewalk to have a cigarette. That's America. This country is dying a slow death but we're all still insisting on smoking that cigarette. There's no stopping it now, let's all get comfortable.

P.S. I didn't do nearly as much research on this as I should have. Consequently, this thing invites refutation. However, I must insist that, if you were to post an alternative view, you at least do more research than I've done.