the Age of Aquarius

Although, reading posts from this site is like talking to the local vagabond, this post seems more fitting of the times. Without prefacing the entire site by reading the book 2012, which i painstakingly have done, superimpose the age of fire into the environmental crisis. As what some would call a caustic age, comes to an end, what better way to quench it than with water. With some Boulder egg-heads giving a time-line of 5-10 years for the ice caps to melts. More water than we can deal with might be upon us. On the same note, companies are buying up water rights in fear that water will be the next precious commodity as oil is now. .
In the context of the environmental crisis there seems to be some camps forming, the ignorant right (nucUlear power and off shore drilling to the rescue!), environmental activists (lets make the changes that we haven't accomplished in the last 40 years), capitalists pigs (green business will survive cause that's what the people want), last and definitely the least the politicians (legislation will save us). I like two analogies to discount all of the above. clue: some of these are already disregarded.
When Apollo was in a dire situation, engineers, ironically in Houston(the irony will come), compiled everything the Apollo crew had at their disposal in a cardboard box and then spilled its contents on to the work bench. With a time-line of 5-10 years for drastically rearranging the face of our country, economy and world, we need to start looking for a cardboard box. I would give capitalist a fighting chance at accomplishing this.
The next analogy. As in many cases of cataclysm, people on 9/11 in the WTC stood waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Sadly enough, Americans are good at this, like lemmings we affably wait for someone to direct us. Capitalism would be good at this, HOWEVER, the education level on environmentally sound business is minimal. With many people, people with money I might add, willing to follow anyone willing to lead them, leaders that create results that raise us to higher ground might be engulfed in the elapsed clock of the next decade.
moral of the story: WERE ALL GONNA DIE! AAHHHHHHHHH!
no, no, no. We have a chance. What it is I don't know, but lets think about it. Take a shower (not to long, we might need the water) and lets start with a clean slate and think outside of the box.
some thinkers that might help, might be the reality sandwich, otherwise i rcommend checking out, James Kunstler, Barry schwartz, and for some sage like advice The Dali Lama.

Fun with Video

Although its the second in the series defying trilogy rules, I like this one more.

The Distant Technology

As i re-read some Chuck Klosterman, I earmark the passage about how his manimanl brother cant eat the meat of the deer he killed with his bear hands, but can eat any other meat. Admittedly quite removed from the context i think about how technology distances us. How snapping the neck of a downed buck makes the reality of you killing an animal with your bare hands all the more "hands-on." Using a gun adds to the distance between you and reality. i know this isn't cutting edge topic. But, the juxtaposition of reading about the distance technology puts us at in a "book", linked to the efficiency of Google and how that translates, compared to killing a deer with you bear hands, is quite the journey talking about technology. So what is lost in with this new and improved "web" of info? where are we headed if this is the next step?
Is losing a library culture a price we pay for democratizing information and removing barriers in mining statistics. Will we maintain an impetus to get the whole story and not just skim the surface? giving more people access to information might just a swoard for them to fall on if this is not the case.