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11 comments on The Round-Up: July 11th 2007

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Samsara on July 12, 2007 - 8:07am

After reading about the Amphibians and Whales,

Read this one by Joe Bageant, This guy is a GREAT writer, give him a listen to...

The Ants of Gaia

It's only the end of the world, so quit bitching

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When forced to look at catastrophe on this order of magnitude, we either go numb in shock or look in delusion to something bigger, or at least something with more grandeur than Mother Nature flushing humanity down the toilet. Otherwise, one must accept the both ugly and the weirdly beautiful prospect of oblivion. Meanwhile, we begin too late to "make better choices." Grim choices that do nothing but postpone the inevitable, which are called better ones and sold to us to make ourselves feel better about our toxicity. Burn corn in your gas tank. Go green, with the help of Monsanto. But not many can be concerned even with the matter of better choices. Few can truly grasp the fullness of the danger because there is no way they can get their minds around it, no way to see the world in its entirety. The tadpole cannot conceive of the banks of the pond, much less the wooded watershed that feeds it. But old frogs glimpse of it.
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http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/07/the-ants-of-gai.html

http://www.joebageant.com

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CrystalRadio on July 12, 2007 - 9:24am

I worry about an economic collapse but not that one will happen but only that it won't be complete enough to do any good. This is some cleft stick to be in, on one hand we loose all the benefits of this civilization and on the other we gain the prospect of starvation and mass death with only a vague possibility that it is not already too late for the worlds ecological systems to survive relatively intact.

That is some message to sell to anyone, and it is no wonder even the less stark messages cause the multitudes to run off to places like 777, have a little dance, make a bit of love, do a bit of drugs, and then go back to normal life.

BTW, http://wtdwtshtf.com/ , the new site for those interested in survival in a PO/GW world is back on after a some tech teething difficulties.