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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2003-11-14 10:01 am

Cheerio Frosty England!

Forget chainsaw massacres, forget lunatics in masks who kill babysitters; forget aliens ripping out of guts and definetly forget a state visit by the American President.

If you want to be horrified, watch Horizon.

If I were straight, I would be feeling torn right now about having children. I would be terrified of bringing a human being onto this planet, when Britain is heading for ice age, Central America will become grasslands, and Asia will lose its monsoons. I'll stick with my original plan of adopting and becoming the coolest gay dad in town. And I'll always remind my adopted children that they must not reproduce.

I will begin a tradition in my family, a tradition of adoption. I'll play Bjork in the mornings, when the kids are eating their cornflakes and dancing around the table. We'll form a small community of like-minded people in Brazil's countryside, raising our adopted children who, in their turn, will also adopt. We'll try to stop reproduction. If the mystics from Brazilia are right, and Brazil is the country of the future (where all the survivors of the 21st century will be) then I'll be safeguarding my children's lives by moving there.

He believes in a beauty... he's venus as a boy

Question: If America is so knowledgeable about global warming, has all the specialists who know how our world is going to shit, why is their government blocking any changes??? Madness...

[identity profile] idioticpoet.livejournal.com 2003-11-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
because, the auto industry is very very powerful. Also, because wer'e a big fucking country in terms of landmas, and years and years ago, when cars became increasing prolific, so to, did the superhighway infrastructure. As a result, lots of the old rail routes have been torn up to create bike paths, or have been abandoned entirely. Also, much of the train tracks in this country, are owned by freight companies, so that if there's ever a freight or passenger train who are going to be on the same track, the freight gets the priority.
it's very comlicated, and i can honestly say, I'm not too happy about it myself.
Have you ever read any Buckminster Fuller?

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-11-16 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
no. Does he have a website? what books do you suggest?

I posted a comment somewhere else in this post, to [livejournal.com profile] jellyfishfur about the poor lobby the scientists in America have. What the auto industry, the oil industry, should be doing is begin research into alternative forms of energy to replace oil, because otherwise they are just heading for disaster, aren't they?

In any case, even if we stopped polluting today, it would be irreversible. Global warming is already upon us and now we'll just have to brace ourselves for the catastrophes.