Hummmm, what’s new?? Nothing really. Same old same old … not that it’s a bad thing. After all that has been going al all year with travelling and events and whatnot, its kinda nice to be static for a moment and just live … sometimes that crazy thing called life flies right past ya!
I did watch a very I interesting documentary on Friday night that really got me thinking, thinking quite a lot …. It is called THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream and man, was it a wake up call for me. I had no idea the oil situation is what it is, the kind of impact the world will feel once we reach the Oil Peak and what that will mean to the future as we know it. It was a real shock to me to hear how we are truly gluttons of our planet, consumption fanatics and waste such unbelievably precious resources each and every day.
Ask yourself this:
In August 2003, if you were part of the huge blackout felt along the eastern coast of North America (as I was for the complete duration of the power failure, 3 days), after your experience during that time, have you made any efforts to change the way you live and use power, have you changed your consumption of fuels and oils in any way, or are you back to living life as you had been on that very afternoon? A/C running, driving to work each day, driving here and there to get a carton of milk and to hit the post office, creating waste at every turn, consuming recourse that are finite.
It may sound flakey and you may think that these sentiments are stemming from my move to the West Coast where all we do it climb mountains and hug trees, but you know what, maybe it does have something to do with it. I am forced to see the true beauty of this planet each and every day and yes, it has changed my perspective on things. And after hearing and seeing what is going on in the oil industry each and every day, I can honestly say that once and for all, that the statements and points made in this movie made me realize that I will NEVER live in a suburb and will always live in a high-density urban setting, will never again own a car and empowered me to learn to be agriculturally self-sufficient. Watch out, here comes Urban Farmer Erin!
Please, go out and rent this flick. It’s at Rogers in the Documentary section. Do it for you, your kids, your sisters, your brothers, your parents, your grandkids and all those of future generations and everyone else sharing space together here, on the only planet we have.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,an aeroplane
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak,, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing!
Fine, then.
Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with
the rapture and the revered and the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic,
slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
REM: It's The End of the World
