Originally posted by 1776:
Let's solve this problem just like we have over the past ten years.......
bury our collective heads in the sand and rejoice that the environment is pure!!
Turn off all computers for 10 days each month....Ground all aircraft 10 days each month.......Close all government offices for 2 weeks each month(course pay the employees 
)......Ride the bus to and from work 5 days a month.....ride a bike.....walk....eat veggies only.....spread peace, love, and good vibes 
Oh, what a happy world we would be
Everyone one sing,"this is your land......this is my land......etc"
BAH!!!! I want STEAK, an eight cylinder musle car, air conditioning at 72 in summer and heat at 75 in the winter. If the precious environment needs to take a hit to provide the above, so be it!!!
GIVE US OUR FREEDOM!!!
Ok, libs, ya can go back to dope smoking now (dope smokin=pollution)
[This message has been edited by 1776 (edited 05-23-2001).]
[This message has been edited by 1776 (edited 05-23-2001).]
(Steps up to the podium. Raises his eyes slowly, looks around the room, and begins to rant ...)
1776, I think you already have your head buried in the sand and it is exactly this kind of thinking that really pisses me off. I see it when a teenager tosses his trash out of his car window. I see it when big businesses toss their waste into our rivers. I see it when GM produces gas-guzzling boats for our higways and biways. And I see it when people sit down to their mega-steak dinners only to end up throwing half of it away because their greed was bigger than their guts. People whose only interest is in themselves and their own pleasure with no thought to any further out in the future than when their next gratification is going to come.
Come on, guys, do any of us think that relying on a non-renewable source of energy is going to do us any good? Sure it will in the short-term, but what about in the future. What about for our kids and their kids and their kids? What about 100 years from now? Or a 1000 years from now? Or 10,000 years from now? How many of you ever think about that far into the future?
I, for one, think that we, as a civilization, are on this planet for the long haul. I don't believe this isn't just some religious playground we can use up and throw away. It's our HOME, for god's sake, and we'd better start acting like we care about where and how we live or we're going to lose it. Maybe not in our life time, but eventually. If we keep bickering and ignoring our impact on this planet WE'RE going to be the ones responsible for denying some future generation their "right to life", and that would be a genuine shame.
You know, the vets of WW-II that we so revere put their lives on the line so that "future generations" would be guaranteed precious freedom. We need to put our lives on the line so that future generations from now will be guaranteed a precious environment in which to be free. If any of us think that we are not f**king up this world big-time, we are only deluding ourselves.
Oh, you can think like 1776 and "live for the moment" if you want, but in my mind that only makes you a fool and does a lot more harm than you can even imagine. To you I say "pfpfpfpfpfpt".
But, from what I've read here on this thread, I see that most of you care about what's going to happen to our progeny in future generations. Maybe you don't agree on the exact solution, but at least you're talking. At least YOU'RE saying something constructive and thinking about the problem. To you I say, "Thanks!".
Have a nice day!
(smiles, slowly closes his notes, turns away, and walks away from the podium shaking his head in disbelief)
Buhdman,
