I have to disagree with the writer above since it is the small steps that count. Rome was not built in a day and neither was Spain. So why the negativity? They are both beautiful cities. I am doing my part by brushing my teeth without water altogether and my kids aren’t using the slip and slide this summer. It all seems like a big waste and it is attitudes like yours that are going to make us die. People are important and we are really smart too. How else could we have made all the great things that we use everyday? I bet that you could not even answer that question. I think that the article brings up some good points and shows how urgent this situation really is. Even the U.N. says that there is a problem with water and it’s going away. I live by example and it shows so that others can understand how i do it.

Now for my crazy rant:

The “everyone does a little to collectively improve the situation” theory is a fallacy. Why do we tell our children that their small bit will make a big difference when the outcome will be very small? “Because if everyone were to do it it would promote change”… is the story. The problem with this is that not many people will do it and even if they did they would inadvertently leave a large footprint anyways. If i live organically and turn off the tap when i brush my teeth it still does not make a difference when it takes 40,000 litres or more of water to make my car. (quoted from here:) http://bankervision.typepad.com/bankervision/2008/04/a-bank-account.html

You could argue not to use a car, for example. But the people who make your organic cotton bag drive them because they can now afford to buy one with your free trade cash. We cannot make a difference on a person to person level because most people want cheap stuff that makes them feel good. People don’t care and it is too late.

Sometimes the ramifications of our green or eco-lifestyles might seem right and make you feel like you are doing something unselfish. But your existence is selfish in itself: we are better off not existing at all in order to leave a footprint that is remotely sustainable. The only way to have change is to completely dismantle the system and get rid of this bureaucratic-government-corporation orgy that has been screwing the common do-gooder since the beginning of industrial man.

Humans have a cancer that is slowly killing the species. We are all going to die an excruciating death from the environment that has been destroyed by our own hands. This will cleanse the earth so that she can start a new cycle. Let us rejoice in this death and sacrifice ourselves for a future that is more beautiful than our insignificant minds can imagine. A place where the fish and trees and bats can coexist without straining the entire system to collapse. Let us not love ourselves more than we deserve in prolonging the suffering. Slow death is the saddest of all and this is the happiest time for the earth. Let’s not lose sight of something that is much bigger than we will ever be.