Some people say the end of the world is coming in October of 2011. I don't know if I believe that, but if we believe it might come or that we might be an instrument in achieving the end of the world, why would we break our backs and our banks trying to fix the planet? Maybe this is just how the story is supposed to go. It could be that we're supposed to die a slow death of poison air, undrinkable water, population overgrowth, civilized wars and religious lunacy and that's what the revelation turmoil was all about. It sounds like hell on earth, but unless the sun explodes or a meteor cracks the planet in half, the end of times is probably going to be more of a whimper than a bang.
Do we really think we can fix this problem? To get everyone on board, we would have to have a really good dictatorship that could keep people in line even when they were poor and oppressed, or maybe a genocide that left only people willing to work towards a brighter future. Right now, we have too many countries pointing fingers at each other. "China is using more resources than they should and oppressing their people." -- "America is burning more fossil fuels than the rest of the world combined three times." -- "Saudi Arabia isn't even civilized enough to have schools for women." If all but one country did a good job fixing their environment, the one that's left could still ruin it for everyone and spend and waste everything the others saved so they would be riding into the rapture living the good life while the rest of us suffer.
I think I'll just keep spending and let the world take care of itself.
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