REDUCE YOUR FUCKING CARBON FOOTPRINT
by theRealist
I'm seriously done with the people on this planet. I have such a bitter detest for so many human beings that it's hard to keep my head on straight. I can't go into Superstore anymore, for numerous reasons, but one being the fact that I come so close to straight up drop kicking 90% of the people in there. I can't watch the news (not like I ever fucking did anyways), I can't read anything interesting online, because everyone is always in this fucked up state of panic. Right now we are in the middle of, dare I say it, a PANDEMIC, with the swine. Fuck that shit. I don't even want to get started on the fact that I think the whole H1N1 thing is synthesized and had nothing to do with pigs in the first place, but that's a different rant. Oh, and if that weren't bad enough, we've got 2012 to worry about. PACK YOUR SHIT FOLKS, WE'RE GOING DOWN!
Seriously. Let's take a little trip shall we, through the minds of human beings throughout the ages:
- 1914: World War 1 breaks out (there's some serious shit to worry about there)
- 1930: The Great Depression that occurred after the war had ceased (yet again, shit to worry about)
- 1939: World War 2 starts (Jews are fucked)
- 1945: Start of the cold war (oh yes.)
- 1959: The Vietnam War (Just plain stupid)
Ok so basically what I'm trying to show here is that there were a lot of valuable reasons to be freaked out back in the day. There was some crazy ass shit going on! Horrible things! But now that brings us to the more recent timeline:
- 1980's: the AIDS epidemic breaks out in America (People started to think that you could get aids in ways I'm not even going to go into. Stupid, stupid shit.)
- 1991: End of the cold war ("Oh. Yeah. Shit we forgot about that. Sorry!")
- 1999: Y2K! (AKA END OF THE WORLD PART 1)
- Midnight January 1st, 2000: A unanimous, "Huh..." reverberates around the globe.
- 2000: The millennium scare (You remember that right? "Everything is fucked ! It's not actually the year 2000, it's the year 2001! WE ARE DOOMED!" yeah...)
- 9/11/2001: Obviously a horrible day in its self, but beyond that it has created a ridiculous slew of fear that we now harbor against anyone who comes from the middle east. Everyone is a terrorist, and after 9/11 there were scares about Anthrax in public telephones, bombs in backpacks, the list goes on and on and on.
- 2002-2003: SARS makes its appearance and threatens life on the planet. Blame the chickens.
- 2004 - Present: Global Warming has made a huge appearance and is my reason behind this article, so I'll come back to it.
- 2008: 2012 bullshit starts. End of story.
- Late 2008-09: Economy "Crashes" (Reality of crash? Banks investing your life savings into stupid ventures so the rich stay rich).
- 2009: H1N1 becomes a stage 6 Pandemic. Retarded.
So ok, basically what I was trying to show with that was that we've always got something to be afraid of. The world is constantly changing, and right this second everyone is freaked out about the Swine and 2012.
First of all, if you don't have pre-existing issues with your respiratory or immune system, you won't die of the Flu. Even if you do, your chances of dying from it if it's properly treated are slim. So fucking forget about the H1N1 shit. I know like twelve people who've had it, including my mom, and it kicks your ass for a couple days, then you get right back up like nothing happened.
Then 2012. First of all, I want to say that the movie that was just released, should be destroyed. A girl I work with, who is not the brightest crayon in the box, said it was stupid. When someone as daft as her thinks a movie is dumb, you know it's true. Beyond the movie, I recently read a NASA Scientist's open forum (20 questions basically) geared around 2012. He addressed all the issues facing us and completely dismantled them all. 99% of the hype right now, meaning the things that could kill us in 2012, is bullshit and not possible. Also, if people are worried about a huge Asteroid killing us off like the Dinosaurs, NASA has a program called Spaceguard (or something like that) which is specifically a set of telescopes constantly scanning the universe 24 hours a day 7 days a week, seeing up to some ridiculous length away (like 30,000 Light years or some shit) to let us know if anything is potentially heading our way. This is apparently updated daily on their website, so if something's going to hit us, we'll know about 30,000 light years ahead of time.
The main thing that the scientist said that really stuck with me was that we have bigger shit to worry about, and the biggest is Global Warming. I'm not going to fucking Al Bore you, and drone on about how we should be changing the world, but it is true. There are so many fucking things that piss me off it's ridiculous. Like, I walked into Walmart the other day, and they've installed giant flatscreen TV's to the ceiling about every thirty feet, you know just in case you get bored while pushing your cart around the store. The fact that they already have to heat that whole building, light the entire place (which is a ridiculous fucking amount of energy) and run all the other electronics, they just thought, "Hey! Let's throw some TVs up right here, where they really have no purpose, just so we can look modern and suck the life out of the rest of the world."
People are complaining about the big windmill on top of Grouse Mountain saying it's an eyesore. GO FUCK YOURSELVES. I think that every person that complains about that should have to live for thirty days without heat or electricity. That one little eyesore will power 400 homes. WITH WIND! It produces 2,000,000 kWh of energy, so get the fuck over it.
I'm not saying everyone has to run out and buy hybrids. Just try and do your part. Put your TV on a fucking sleep timer if you fall asleep to it. Turn lights off when you leave a room. It's simple.
Now the real reason I have to rant, is because for those that want to go a little farther, and try to be Super Green, like I have been trying to do, the cost is UNBELIEVABLE. So I can completely sympathize with someone when they say, "well why would I buy these carrots for $4 dollars a pound when I can get these for $2.50?" It adds up.
The margin on building green is generally 35%, meaning that if you were to spend $16,000 on the glass and windows in your house, and you wanted to, "Go Green," while doing so, you'd be looking at spending more along the lines of $27,000. And look at car companies: other than the Prius, Lexus is the only company to come out with an all Hybrid line of cars. No one else has offered that yet, but I can't buy a fucking Lexus.
Some one was talking to me about this at work yesterday and they brought up a good point. It's like we always have something to worry about, and could 2012 be a metaphor for the fact that we realize we've kind of fucked everything over, and we keep finding these armageddons so we can pass the blame off of ourselves and onto an old Mayan Calendar? I have a Calendar that ends too: December 31st, 2009. OH NO! Whether it be Swine flu, or 2012, or Aids or SARS or Cancer somethings going to kill us off, and we'll never take the blame ourselves.
So all in all, just be fucking smart about shit, and that goes for everyone. Stop complaining about a windmill that generates enough power to keep 400 homes running non-stop. Stop installing fucking TV's every ten feet in a store so that we aren't bored while we shop. Stop leaving lights on, carpool and all that other jazz, because flat out, going green is not easy right now, and it's fucking expensive, meaning it's less likely to be people's first choice. But when we are all cooking in hotter than hell weather, and then floating on an atlantis type city because the world's flooded, I know that the first thing people are going to unanimously say is: "...Huh..."
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