Corporations, in bid for increased profit, are enabled to write the laws in the US. Monsanto agricultural biotech firm authors corporate protection into laws regarding food safety; Citigroup practically drafts the entire Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and consumer protection act.
Severe weather rips through the nation, taking lives and destroying millions of dollars worth of property. Our atmospheric conditions seem to under nearly continuous assault.
Despite the best efforts of mankind to make it rain and resolve drought, the drop in the underground water table continues at an accelerated rate. We are using water that has taken thousands of years to accumulate. Drought conditions in many farm states cannot help but worsen, even as we experience devastating flooding in some other areas.
As the water table drops we see vast increases in the number of sink holes occurring. Our mantle and our infrastructure both crumbling as bridges and dams and pipelines constructed decades ago erode and fail.
Meteor strikes occur with increased frequency and the risk of military nuclear strike seems to grow on a daily basis as well.
Massive animal die offs are brushed aside as "over-population" results, when really the primary infestation seems to be from mankind, using up all the available resources in wasteful, and often destructive ways.
Just a few examples of the ongoing doom; the long downhill journey toward non-sustainability we're experiencing. I'm sure you can think of others. As it worsens it will speed up, or maybe a better analogy would be a smoldering fire, because it's just as likely there will be a flash point.
I rail against it, the doom being wrought out with my own compliance as I live the life dictated to me by the powers that be. I go to work to make money, then spend the money buying consumer goods, and producing waste, and then work to make more money. I continue to try to do what I can to turn things around, although I believe it is all likely futile.
Really all we can do is our best, and be happy in spite of the awareness of doom. So eat, drink, be merry and make the best quality of life you can obtain. Live each day like you might not see another one, because Death has always been the only certainty for anyone, after all.
Something is better than nothing, pay attention, it's still free. Lead by example.
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