Protecting the planet, NOT!!!
 

I'll try not to make this too much of a rant, try being the relevant term.

I'm tired of people saying we have to "Save the Planet!!!" My family has been green for decades longer than this green movement has gone on, and I'm here to tell you that THE PLANET DOESN'T NEED SAVING.

The same people that say we need to save the planet, the scientists, also believe the earth is billions of years old. Explain to me how 200 years of industry, or even 10 thousand, is going to to come close to causing permanent harm to the planet. We have a huge potential to destroy the world enough to cause immense harm to human society, but the planet isn't going to give a damn, it'll just keep trucking.

I think people need a reality check. No matter how much we love dolphins and seals and bears and whatever the hell else, it's our own asses we need to be concerned with. If people really want to correct the situation, we have to quit trying to be poetic by claiming we're "Saving The Planet" and get down to the nitty gritty aspects of HOW.

I live in Conway, Arkansas. I love this town to my core, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the Redneck Central OF Redneck Central. I work with a girl who's either still 17( she was when I met her) or just turned 18. She's been living with a 25 year old(!) for over a year. I mentioned the pedophilia laws to her and she said,"Oh, I'm about to turn 18, so it's no big deal." I'm no expert on law, but the term Statuette(sp?) of Limitations comes to mind, those things last a good while I think.

My point is that there are ignorant people everywhere, and the Green Movement is no exception. We need to quit making it a political thing and make it a personal thing. If people don't give a damn about carbon dioxide, how about carbon monoxide. I'm pretty sure anything that can capture one can capture the other pretty well, so you simply scare people(yes, scare) with the one they hate the most. Instead of talking about the distance between the testicles and the anus(scientists suggest that the average distance is becoming smaller because chemicals in plastic are feminizing the male population) show them some of the more horrendous effects, like birth defects, or higher rates of mental retardation.

People say,"Don't **** where you eat," but in this case people don't actually realize that they're doing that, they don't believe it. We(people who do believe the problem exists) need to get WAY more organized in our methods, and we need to do it soon. Everything from pressuring Intel and AMD to dramatically lower the power usage when the cpu isn't being used much(like in laptops, but even more so) to convincing people that buses are awesome ways to save money.

We can do this. Because if we don't, nobody will care in a thousand years, they'll be too busy trying to get the mule to pull the plow harder.