Go Green

Green. Green. Green.
The color of sewage. The color of rot. The color of envy. The color of money. The color of ill-gotten money. The color of corruption.
The polar caps are melting, the rainforests are burning, draughts are spreading, bio-diversity is crashing. So what do you do? Buy fair trade coffee, eat soybeans, eat vegan, eat local, use toilet paper made from recycled toilet paper, drive hybrids. Be good little consumers and buy buy buy to the bitter end. Vote with your wallet. Indulge your petty needs while the world collapses around you.
Do people really believe that whether you use Energy Star appliances or not will save the world? At this point in the game! “I’m doing what I can, every little bit counts.” Talk is cheap, but clichés are cheaper. And I hope such clichés keep them dry while their home floats away.
I think we need a little reality check to show you what the current state of our climate future is. The polar icecaps are expected to be totally melted during the Summer months by 2015. The more pessimistic guesstimates of the future say that due to the coming crises (plural) the human population will be reduced to less than 500 million by the end of the centaury.
And all of these snake-oil prevention measures and mere band-aid cures won’t save us. In fact they’ll probably going to kill us.
The technique is as old as time. A movement starts to grow powerful, strong and huge. The status quo freaks out. So they create new institutions that’ll curtail the movement, incorporate it into itself, so that the more radical aims of the movement are prevented via more moderate politics (basically throwing the movement a bone, a bone with no meat on it), and all along acting inside the normal system.
While trying to change the world by going through traditional channels of the (the free market) system people fail to see that the system itself is the cause of the problem. The companies now aiming to profit off the environmentalist buzz constitute nothing short of a scam. It is heavy capitalist industry that is polluting our planet not how long you take showers. If you keep the system intact then the problem will continue to fester.
The Hippys can go on and live in their bubbles and ivory towers, believing their Green lifestyles alone can change things as they asininely walk out over the abyss. Or they can take charge, take the initiative and make a difference for once.
The Hippys only have their credit card to loose. They have the natural world to regain.