Global Harming II
I've suddenly become an optimist. As the world appears to hurtle toward the point of no return on global warming, I've begun to believe it's not too late for mankind. All we have to do is follow a few simple rules.1. Open the refrigerator only twice a day, once in the morning to get out whatever you're going to need that day, and once at night to put it all back. Okay, so you might have to do without ice cream and mayonnaise on hot days.
2. Allow yourself one trip a week in the car, even if it means sleeping in your office. (Hey, softies, whalemen were gone from home months, even years at a time.)
3. Everybody move to Palm Desert. It would be best if you walk there, pulling your belongings in a cart.
4. Don't turn on the television or radio. Do you have any idea the energy that's consumed broadcasting those signals, not to mention the wasted energy every time a news anchor opens his or her yap?
5. Make your own clothes by hand, without a sewing machine. And do without shoes, which will also save a lot of animals.
6. Stop eating at Pizza Hut. It won't do much to help global warming, but it's my way of getting back at them for their immoral TV spot where the guy is jubilant because he managed to cheat the pizza delivery kid.
I think there may be a chance for us.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:25 AM
4 Comments:
Why Palm Desert?
Santa Fe would work.
Great cartoon, John C. and agree with the commentary.
John, I don't see it as global warming, but the fact that we don't want to face the fact that the earth has had major changes in climate over all the years, the ice age, etc. During the 1930's the lack of rain turned the middle of the country into a dust bowl and no crops were grown for years.
The best thing that Jimmy Carter did when he was president was convince everyone to lower the speed limit and buy smaller cars that used less gas. Why doesn't he speak up now?
I am old enough to remember the days of the depression and before most rural areas had electricity or indoor plumbing. Also the WW11 period with gas and food rationing.
This generation is spoiled and using up all of our oil and coal with no thought about what will happen when it is all used up.
I like some of your ideas. We should make everyone take classes in survival training without all of the conveniences of home. No radio or TV, only books.
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