You gotta wonder what's wrong with our society...

[mousme]

You have wonder what's wrong with our society when so many people envision a brutal apocalypse as the only solution to our troubles. After Armaggedon, people seem to believe, we're going to settle into some sort of agrarian utopia (after we shoot all the zombies starving looters/suburbanites, that is) and live happily ever after in a world without yuppies, SUVs, or water shortages.

Have things become so bleak that we can't envision things getting any better without most of the world dying off?

Comments

[moonandtree.livejournal.com]

Nah, those people are generally lazy and don't see a way around capitalism, which is the purvue of the second greatest force in the world of humans - greed.

Myself, I think that the electric car, while not perfect, is just around the corner and will kill a great deal of gas emissions. Survival trumps greed every time.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Myself, I think that the electric car, while not perfect, is just around the corner and will kill a great deal of gas emissions.

In Quebec, and small parts of Western Europe, where electricity is a fairly clean, re-newable resource, yes, it will. In most of the rest of North America, and Europe, and Asia, and Africa, where electricity is generated by burning oil, or natural gas, or *shudder* coal, the electric car won't change a goddam thing, unfortunately.

[moonandtree.livejournal.com]

I think you're wrong. Nuclear.

It won't help people everywhere, but I believe that if there's a solution in quebec, there's a solution everywhere.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Although I am cynically optimistic, I don't think we will get away from greed. Greed is a very primate characteristic. Think about the monkey trap where a monkey just won't let go of something on the other side of the hole to get its hand out.

I think we will have to find ways to make greed useful.

[moonandtree.livejournal.com]

We don't need to get away from greed. We have Survival instincts that outweigh the greed ones. We are finding ways to make greed useful. That's the only reason the electric car even exists, because someone saw a way to make a big fricking pile of cash.