A Darwinian rapture
November 20th, 2007 by Jim JustSteven Pizzo has posted a really funny piece at The Smirking Chimp – at least it’s funny if, like me, you have the kind of warped sense of humor that makes you a social outcast. I’m going to quote just the end, but be sure to read the whole thing.
“I would wager that, if you waterboarded them, even the most cockeyed, biblically lobotomized, American Enterprise Institute, US Chamber of Commerce types would admit that there’s no way on earth – literally — that the world’s remaining resources could feed, cloth and energize 9 billion humans, without turning the Earth into a smoking cinder. And that was before adding in the affects global warming will have on our ability to produce and transport food and energy around the globe. It just ain’t gonna happen.
“Meanwhile the bus we’re all traveling on is heading full tilt towards that sold wall of mathmatical reality: Too many people, consuming finite resources at an excellerating rate while also producing toxic wastes faster than nature can neutralize them — at least not in ways that aren’t equally toxic to human existence.
“It’s also obvious that the folks we have piloting our communal bus are, at best, in denial, and at worst in cahots the those with vested interests in staying the course. They’ll tell you that there’s plenty of oil, food and water. That it’s more important to keep the world’s artificial economic systems greased and humming along than worrying about critters, like owls and fish. (BTW, such folk don’t consider themselves critters.) They’re solutions center around economic “growth” –more trade, more commerce, more travel, more drilling, more mining, more, more, more.
“Of course that can’t happen, and it won’t. Mother Nature will simply clean house as She has so many times before whenever the Earth’s systems got out of whack for one reason or another. And She doesn’t give a fig what Dick Cheney or the American Enterprise Institute freemarketeers think, claim or want.
“And, unless someone pulls the emergency stop cord, and soon, Mother Nature will make sure Dick Cheney and George Bush’s kids and grandkids — along with ours — get front row seats to the Darwinian version of The Rapture.”