What is Best in Life or What Doth Life?

Let me begin by saying the 'green movement' is a fraud based on junk science and even junkier solutions. Don't get me wrong. I don't aim to suggest that everyone trying to go 'green' is a fraud or that everyone promoting 'going green' is trying to swindle you. Most people fail to have a clear idea of what exactly they're promoting or consuming.

Yes, we have learned the 'audacity of hope,' and we are witnessing the results. As longtime 'environmentalist' Derreck Jensen asserts in this article ( http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/170/ ), hope leads to complacency about our situation here on this planet. A celestial body we refer to as "Earth." Buckminster Fuller called it Spaceship Earth http://www.futurehi.net/docs/OperatingManual.html. Unfortunately, based on the perspective of Jensen we must all give-up the 'American Dream.' In short, no more baseball, shopping malls or cellular phones or anything else that requires an element of human intervention in order to exist.

Yes, a hard pill to swallow. So, in other words the hope we feel when we think, if everybody recycled or brought a canvas bag to the grocer's or bought a hybrid or used solar etc, etc, etc; we would all be saved from 'global warming', and everything would be bright sunshiny days. However, the common misconception appears to be that by replacing one good or product with another that has some capacity for reduction of carbon emissions is somehow going to resolve our planetary demise.

The pollution figures are staggering. In another article by Jensen, (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4697/ ), he writes:

There are 2 million dams just in the United States, with 70,000 dams over six feet tall and 60,000 dams over thirteen feet tall. And we wonder at the collapse of native fish communities? We can repeat this exercise for grasslands, even more hammered by agriculture than forests are by forestry; for oceans, where plastic outweighs phytoplankton ten to one (for forests to be equivalently plasticized, they’d be covered in Styrofoam ninety feet deep); for migratory songbirds, plagued by everything from pesticides to skyscrapers; and so on.

The indication of output of individuals pales when compared with manufacturing and industry. In other words, we as individuals have very little impact on the destruction of our planet, other than insatiable appetite for more...but we're not entirely to blame for it. Although I firmly like the notion of accountability. Again, I think our myopic context of being 'green' has lead to even more folly and apathy.

In the movie Conan the Barbarian, Conan is asked what is best in life. I guess you have to ask yourself that. I kind of agree with Terence McKenna's Plan/Plant/Planet ( http://deoxy.org/t_ppp.htm ). Get back to the basics. The more technology we accept, the more humanity we give away.