Crazy Cliche Environmental Rant!

So, why is there so much damn corruption in this world? And why is, seemingly, everyone's opinion 'well, one person can't do anything about it, so why try?' I find that to be such a cop out for people who are just damn lazy! Guess what people? If all of those who use that ridiculous excuse got up off their asses and started fighting for something, don't you think that perhaps there would be quite a large group of people?! And there are people who are trying to make some sort of change for the good in this world and they need more support than they get. No, I am not the most pro active person around, in fact I'm pretty bad about these things, but I care about things that are going on in the world, and I refuse to partake in events that make me feel uncomfortable. I care about the deteriorating environment and Ozone layer, so when friends of mine tell me that they are going out into the bush to have a "tire-fire" I straight up let them know how fucking ridiculous and horrible I feel that that is. I've been to one in my life time; when I went out to a pit in the middle of no where to have a fire, I wasn't really aware that they would be piling all sorts of random tires that they found and pouring gasoline all over them and laughing when they explode and laughing at the enormous black clouds of smoke that went barrelling into the sky. I almost felt like crying for how much death and destruction that that act alone possibly caused. I couldn't even stay, the person I was with was having quite a bit of fun just being completely apathetic towards the cost that it would later have on the world. He even knew that it bothered me, and teased me by saying "look at that black smoke, isn't that awesome?!" well, No, it isn't fucking awesome, it's horrific, and I can't believe that I actually partook in such a repulsive action. And what really pisses me off is, that friend of mine will never give a shit because he'll be dead by the time the effects are really evident, which is more or less what he said to me, only in less intelligent terms. I hope he never reproduces because he won't care what happens to his children, or their offspring. A very large percentage of people don't seem to understand that sending toxic fumes and mass amounts of black smoke into the atmosphere might be why we have a dying Ozone layer and why there is more damage to our world and the surrounding space than people have ever known of. Sometimes I almost hope that humans wipe themselves out, just so that Earth has a chance at survival, but there is too much beauty and there are too many good people for me to really want such a thing. I just wish people would smarten the fuck up and REALLY start working towards a bettered world.

I believe that in all likelihood humans will, one day, kill themselves off, but I don't think it's fair to tear the Earth down with us. I am currently talking to a friend about the subject, and he brought up the point "No person has evolved enough to catch up to a speeding car by running, have we evolved enough socially/intellectually to do anything but postpone our demise?" Well, I highly doubt that we have. Or ever really will, unless something similar to "The Day the Earth Stood Still" happens, and half of the world is wiped out by micro-insects that devour everything in their path. And even then, I think we'd fight until we could force the "alien" beings to leave and then we'd go back to our old ways, with newspaper headings like "There was something in the world's water, don't worry about it". And obviously, the media would never lie to us! Which is probably why we're in the state we are, we had no real knowledge about what was going on in our world until it was too late, because the people who are supposed to keep us informed about the world's business are controlled by goverments. Hell, in China, one of the worst countries for air pollution, they have complete control over all media and entertainment. I wonder how hidden the nation's people are from how damaging their country is to the entire world? You'd think that walking outside and seeing a gray smog over every city would give them a clue, but humans can be pretty stupid.

I just researched something very interesting! and just says so much about propaganda! So, China is bad about air pollution. In 1999, carbon dioxide emission reached 18.57 million tons, air pollution emission reached 11.59 million tons and industrial dust emission reached 11.75 million tons. Pretty horrible huh? Well, in the United States between 1970 and 2006 carbon monoxide emissions fell from 197 million tons to 89 million tons, nitrogen oxide emissions fell from 27 million tons to 19 million tons, and sulfur dioxide emissions fell from 31 million tons to 15 million tons. So, even after a ridiculous amount of improvement, the US is still WAY worse than China. And yet, we so often hear about how horrible China is for these things. Oh, you gotta love propaganda! Perhaps the United States should start looking at themselves as harshly as at everyone else. I haven't even checked how bad Canada is, I'm a lil frightened to.

So, there it is, humans are pretty fucked all around. I hope we learn one day. (To those who really try to live good lives, are environmentally friendly and who put effort in to not being harmful to anyone or anything, this is not directed at you, please don't take my insults to humans as being directed towards you and I hope you've read the whole thing to get to this part)