The Oil Drum

So, we are running out of global-warming poison in our neck of the woods. Hmmm. Let's see if we can jimmy up some imports to keep the planet's destruction on schedule.

Now, I know that many here will say they are only speculating on what the powers that be will likely do to keep the entropy machine going, but that only smacks of the current media's obsession with "fair and balanced" treatment of the news. Put simply, the media feels they cannot challenge the logic of anyone and will merely allow any ole insane person put forth their views without commentary from the program's "journalist" hosts. Thus, lunatics like Robertson, Rove, Frist and the entire neocon circus can come onto the Sunday pundit pulpits and blather their idiocy without fear of a run-in with contradictory facts. We don't have to do that here. We can call it like it is.

Any continuation of the existing paradigm will result in increased suffering a little further down the road, increased war just around the corner, increased mortality for the human species in twenty years instead of lesser suffering in ten. Those who advocate technical solutions involving the release of more carbon into the atmosphere are simply allowing more people to overpopulate the planet and thus are increasing the number of people who will die unnecessarily. It is tantamount to murder. Murder in the name of consumer greed. Murder just so the current generation can continue their consumer orgy, so they can buy more plastic crap that ends up in the upstairs closet in two weeks, so they can overeat incredibly bad food from their local Mickey Dees.

Obviously we deserve our fate. We cannot seem to look beyond our two hundred function graphing calculators to the ultimate reality; it HAS to end no matter what we do to keep the party going. Physics is not the energy glutton's friend.

I can now see that this has to play out in the worst way possible. We are just like the monkeys at the zoo. A keeper tosses a treat into the enclosure and one of the smaller females grabs it and runs. A small male runs her down and takes it by force. Finally, the bull male slaps the small male around and eats it himself. Ahhh, America, bull monkey in the enclosure of life. Here we are a bunch of selfish monkeys all fighting for the scraps of the industrial revolution. Will we act in a reasoned manner? Of course not. The monkeys have tribes and the tribes are about to face off over the oil. One day the keeper will not have enough treats and then the monkeys will kill each other. Many will die of starvation. If this is the only way to kill off the energy monkeys, so be it.