Conservation

Like an ass-kicking contest among one-legged men, our politicians are busy proclaiming concern about the debt future generations will inherit, without demonstrating any concern for shrinking supply of natural irreplaceable resources.

Despite warnings as far back as Teddy Roosevelt’s concern for conservation, Buckmeister

Fuller’s “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, we continue to pursue amazingly wasteful methods in pursuing our necessary and unnecessary objectives.

Who will apologize to that generation with the line “Sorry we used it up ?” Easter Islanders used all their trees to make rollers for moving stone heads until their culture collapsed. We are fast following in their footsteps.

Never accepting a concept of thrift, enough, we built larger than we need, SUV’s when a small sedan would suffice, distribution grids which waste most of our power; rebuilding for efficiency deemed “too costly” not profitable. And there you have it. Always the magic - Oil short ? Drill in Alaska - as if this would supply more than a drop in the bucket, if that, 10 years down the road.

Well good luck - and I am really sorry we used it all up.