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WILL WE SURVIVE?

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Fuck mankind
We have no idea what the hell we are doing. "The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. " Paul Hawken. We, the people of the United States of America, are the ones defying nature. We use to brush off the idea of global warming and the idea that one day we will run out of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources because why? There was really no solid evidence. But not what? There is FUCKING SOLID EVIDENCE! And what do we do? Defy nature still. Sure some of us are coming around to realize we must start making a valient effort to ensure that the human race survives and doesnt die in a flood or drought or extreme heat or extreme cold or whatever the hell doomsday will be. Maybe when we get close to running out of all resources and the ice caps melt a meteor will hit earth and that will be the end of it all. That would just be out of knowwhere. BOOM!

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We need to start relying on resources the earth gives us naturally. Such as Wind power and solar power, and what the hell ever happened to Hydropower plants? Didn't that work. You just dam up a river and it will provide power right? I think we use to do that, let me check

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Yeah we did do that before. The hoover dam. I believe that powered a home or two. In fact I believe it can power about half the state of Nevada at full productivity. Don't we have a river or two in America that we could do that also? How fucking convenient. You know what would be a change also, applying solar panels to the side of the dam and that would increase the amount of energy we collect. what a great idea.
“A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world.� Andrew Gaines. Ok we defied nature because there was no proof. Now there is proof that parts of antartica and greenland are melting that have never done that before and we have only a limited amount of fossil fuels left and we are burning them extremely fast. So what does America do? We buy Hummers and build mansions and we have recycling but that doesn't seem to be very effective. We pave over parks to build a parking lot so that everyone can drive that measly 1 mile to work in our SUVs and not have to worry about working out or exercising by just walking, or even take public transits. WE are promoting a bad life for ourselves. With the average family having around 2.5 cars and not worrying about the emissions from this shit. WE are getting fat and lazy, and society is promoting it. When did we stop treated our bodies as temples and move to be obese.

We are getting worse. We need to make a drastic change to keep on keeping on. America needs to change, or the world will be changed forever. Live healthy, build healthy, teach healthy, survive.

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