Now that was a proper rant! Lol.
Yeah the consumerism is crazy and annoying for sure. We get some products but the things people focus on are absurd, such as drinking straws. I get that straws do damage to a small subset of the animal population like turtles. I think most people have seen the videos of straws getting taken out of turtles noses and yes it's difficult but they also don't seem to see the videos of the toxic sludge that gets pumped out of those factories and can't seem to care about that, because it isn't as convenient and moralizing as claiming that you are against plastic drinking straws!!!
I don't think we should be eradicated as a species, because we can do lots of good however there is a group of people who insist on keeping us under the thumb of these conglomerate corporations and that also means squashing real innovation and competition every chance it gets. There are certainly lots of better ways to do things but if they can't make a few dollars off the whole thing, they buy it and dump it to the memory bins.
I can't quite figure out smokers, especially ones who throw their damn trash on the ground. I had a lady yell at me for throwing compost in an area as she was smoking and flicked a cigarette butt. I was dumbfounded at how stupid her attempt at an argument was!
Haha, I thought you'd like that. I held back though.
I know...but it's inevitable. I believe that thinking we'll be around indefinitely is a little naïve. All things die, and the planet will too...But I guess maybe by then humans will have found a way to colonise (and fuck up) another planet...or would have eradicated ourselves in world war three. I understand, as someone who has a kid, that our demise is not a nice thought, but I believe it to be a certainty.
Selfish, ignorant and arrogant nutbags.
Yeah I think we will colonize somewhere else. I actually have half a mind that we are just one of many iterations of what we think of as "human" species on the planet. There is more evidence coming out of highly advanced species that existed around 12k years ago, who had pretty darn advanced tech to do things. Learned that as well from Randall lol. What they did to fuck it all up though, is the question. I know that at some point in the future we will fuck something up pretty bad, just not sure if it will be in my lifetime or not. A grim thought with children but sadly it is the nature of humanity.
I think humans should colonise two different places as follows:
Oh! I bet my healthy, thin and slender figure of smoker no doubt will find Uranus as a very placid and peaceful place to live and work in front of a computer screen well away of other nasty humans. LoL
;o)