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Unfortunately, various and sundry people keep voting oil barons and various other corporate fuck ups into office, and it's interesting to note that these same grandiose politicians are affiliated with right-wing Christians and/or their values. You see they have many Americans blind sided.

I was telling Zwoti this the other day that I'm really disillusioned with the US, even as an American. Looking at what we've done on a global level is craptacular, to quote Bart Simpson, but if you look at our own nation... It's a joke. Maybe it's the pissings of this current administration, or maybe it's the realization the democracy doesn't work. My bro and I had a discussion and he thinks that all political systems are a joke because they go completely against human nature.

The rest of the world can help by stop capitalizing off of our capitalism. We can all help the environment by stopping our consumption of goods from other nations who don't support of the needs of this planet. The Germans, as has been pointed out, have developed a hydrogen engine. They did that years ago, but it hasn't caught on because of the idiots in the US and the Middle East. By switching to hydrogen not only would we put a huge cramp in their wallets, but make a huge difference in the environment. It's not the emissions, drilling for oil is destructive to ecology on a massive scale.

To say that global warming is a gradual process that occurs over time is as ludicrous as saying our current mass extinction is just another mass extinction like the one at the end of the Pleistoncene era. The interesting thing is, the mass extinction then was a process, due to evolution. The mass extinction now is due to over consumption, over population (of humans), over development, and total disregard on our part. Global warming is a piece of this.

To even toss this off lackadaisically is dangerous. Yes, the planet's temperature has been changing for the 4-6 billion years that the Earth has been around. The gasses in the atmosphere have been changing, but we're talking very gradual and in a manner that is conducive for survival. This is not gradual, this is extreme, and not conducive for the survival of most species. If you look at the history of differents eras of evolution, life, and geologic time, we've been here a second. It's not time yet. The pattern doesn't flow. No one can tell me that this is just the way it is. We, as humans, are fucking up in a major way.