Suburban Chimp - Finance & Social Commentary

A presumably satirical article to rile environmentalists raises some interesting pointers about how environmentalists want it all, but are basically deluded. I got bored of reading it, but I thing the crux of the argument is that people should take precedence over the environment and if we need to build billions of houses so be it and if we need to use GM technology to feed everyone, crack on with it.

What I think the article doesn’t address is that there aren’t enough resources to last out already so adding an expediential amount of people to the already over inflated population isn’t really the best way to go.

Technology will solve a lot of problems, but ultimately believing that nuclear energy offers a short to solution to anything is silly and saying that animals are better off with humans around because we maybe able to blast meteorites out of the sky and save the planet is really quite inexplicable when we think about all the species that have been driven to extinction by the human race and the impact we have on the planet right now.

Personally right now I believe the future is pretty bleak, but it doesn’t matter because hedonistic tendencies to live now, pay later will ultimately prove to be our undoing. Ultimately if you drive your car with the revs in the red all the time, don’t get it serviced regularly and generally treat it with disrespect the engine will blow up and you’ll need to get it fixed. Unfortunately when the earth is in need of repair, there won’t be a mechanic around with the right parts to be able to fix it and they’ll need to order them from the manufacturer and we could be in for a long wait.