Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Saturday, October 17, 2009

What's happening while you read this blog post (Part II)

As you read this, I’d like you to contemplate just a tiny sampling of what’s happening elsewhere:

A fishing boat is engaged in the practice of bottom trawling, dragging nets along the sea floor. Greenpeace explains that bottom trawlers “will destroy deep sea species, before we have even discovered much of what is out there. Think of it as driving a huge bulldozer through an unexplored, lush and richly populated forest and being left with a flat, featureless desert.” The ocean—where 80% of all the life on Earth can be found—seems destined to become nothing more than a watery landfill.

Don’t even begin to talk about progress until bottom trawling stops…

Such posts often provoke questions as to why I focus on the “bad stuff” about America, the “bad stuff” about capitalism, the “bad stuff” about industrial civilization. I’ll let Dick Gregory reply for me.

As James Baldwin sez: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

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