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[skeptikool]

William Deverell, author. Caught yesterday on CBC radio. Really made his points well in a compelling short essay.

http://www.cbc.ca/thisibelieve/essays/may17_William_Deverell.html

[thwap]

It'll take a revolution. That is all ...
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Man! I hate them fancy-lads!

[anne cameron]

We've been dumbed and numbed to the point I don't think this country could muster the energy for a revolution. There is such apathy, such malaise rampant, and the sheeple seem to be content to mutter but not really get up off their lardarses and DO much.

I'm not going to go into a litany of "fer example". We know the examples. All too often we ARE the examples.

Corporations are co-opting the vocabulary. One of the most destructive logging companies has TV advertising about reforestation and keeping the wilderness safe for the feathered and finned. You'd think Greenpeace was running the ad. The fish feed lot industry is making huge noises and spreading propoganda about "new advances in technology" which are, of course, going to solve all problems, probably even before they are identified.

What's the use of there being "new technology" if they aren't compelled to use it? And while they blether on about this new technology the sea lice are wiping out the coho.

And this propogantic bullshite doesn't ever mention that the only reason any movement at all has been made to "clean up" their foul practises is that, over the years and even decades the "tree huggers" have held industry's feet to the fire, have publicized the worst excesses, have raised holy old hell and forced the recalcitrant to modify their behaviour and cut back on the amount of muck poisoning our children.

There was a thing on the TV news about this group of urban hippytypes who were lecturing the rest of us on recycling, and this guy proudly said they even recycle their styrofoam egg containers..they fly them to Toronto, to the only facility which handles them. And I thought Great, now they're burning AvGas by the gallon to get rid of styrofoam egg cartons when they could always just buy the bloody eggs in biodegradable cardboard egg cartons. And then I thought Right, and we could continue to shave the forests flat in order to have fibre to make the cardboard cartons.

IF we had any kind of guts in Parliament a law could be drafted banning surplus packaging. IF...even disposable diapers could be made biodegradable...IF....

Bill's right. He's spot on. But as long as we allow our schools to have junk dispensing machines in the hallways, and as long as we demonstrate to our kids that it's okay to destroy "surplus food" while millions starve we probably aren't going to see the return of any dispossessed wildlife or even dispossessed people.

I just re-read Dickens "Hard Times"

Damn, Charlie, but you are STILL spot on!!

[thwap]

Yeah. But we still need one.
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Man! I hate them fancy-lads!

[anne cameron]

You're right, of course, Thwap. You know I wasn't hollerin' ATCHA, I was hollerin' WITH YA!

[thwap]

Oh. Okay then. Back to the Barricades!!!


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Man! I hate them fancy-lads!