Paying Attention: Fraught For The (Dooms)Day

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Fraught For The (Dooms)Day

So Long, And Thanks For All The Filth

April 22, 2023

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Earth Day. I’d like to, but there’s not a heck of a lot for the Earth to be happy about. Instead, it is more appropriate to send Mother Earth a get-well-soon card. What is wrong with the Earth is of course, us. Hairless apes. With brains so large we can barely figure out what to do with them.

In case you have been overly hopeful, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to 90 seconds until midnight. The closest it has ever been to Doom. If you are unfamiliar with the Doomsday Clock, it monitors the likelihood something will happen or someone will do something, to end humanity.

We must not have a Doomsday Gap.

Not everyone thinks that Doomsday is something to be avoided. I’m looking at you fucking fossil fuel fuckers. Like you Joe Manchin. As anyone who doesn’t have their head up their gas knows, the already-well-under-way climate crisis is a key factor in gauging the time of our doom. That, and the fact that Donald Trump continues to roam the Earth unshackled.

Here’s the pitch the immeasurably greedy petroleum dealers are using to scare MAGAts and other morons from transitioning away from greed-ridden, murderous, non-renewable energy. What if the products we rely on just disappeared? From the clothes you wear, to the products in your hair, our modern lifestyle would look very different without oil and natural gas.

It’s not like anyone is saying that petroleum should never be used for anything ever again, but that should be the next step after we eliminated it as something to simply burn up without a second thought. Or use once as plastic and then toss into the ocean. Can you say hemp? Yes, hemp could replace a great deal of non-renewable petroleum-based Earth-killing products which are contributing heavily to the destruction of our environment, and by association those who live in it. Human and otherwise.

Plastic waste is everywhere. It’s in everyone. It’s toxic. And, if and when it breaks down (which can take up to 1000 years), it’s even worse. Can you say microplastics? Maybe not, but you cannot avoid ingesting them. And neither can any other life form that eats.

The Mothers of Invention – Plastic People

Microplastics: It’s what’s for dinner…and lunch…and breakfast

So yeah, what if the products we rely on just disappeared – as the paid shill in the ad asks? What if we stopped the slow-motion murder/suicide pact we have made with life on Earth?

And here’s the ad these sadistic, suicidal/homicidal monsters perpetrated recently:

Life Runs On Energy, Energy Transfer (30 sec commercial)

And here’s their bullshit website: https://energytransfer.com/pipelines-petroleum

Say It Ain’t So Joe (You Duplicitous Fucking Asshole)

That brings us to President Joe Biden. Biden is unquestionably doing many good things on many important fronts. Unfortunately, he is dropping the ball on what is in fact the single most important issue in the history of human civilization. Biden seems prepared to put his corporate-stained hands on the minute hand of the old Doomsday Clock in order to push it even closer to the brink of midnight.

“No more drilling on federal land. Period. Period. Period. Period.”
Joseph R. Biden, February 9, 2020

Despite flapping his gums about the importance of fighting the increasingly out-of-control climate crisis, the former senator from Citibank continues kowtowing to the corporate-overlord-fossil-fuel-fuckers, approving drilling site after drilling site. He says it’s a necessary bridge to a renewable future, but every gallon of gas that’s extracted and burned or turned into plastic, or fertilizer shortens that in-no-way-guaranteed future by some yet as undetermined number of days, years or decades.