The convenient price we will have to pay
So you've just left work and as usual you're stuck, bumper-to-bumper, in stop and go traffic. As you inch your way home to your suburban McMansion, in your Suburban 4X4 SUV, inhaling a double Big Mac with the A/C on blast, it suddenly hits you; If you lived in the city you worked in, you would be home by now! The new urbanism is here, and not a moment too soon.
It is common knowledge that fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy. Gas prices are going up for a reason; it's called supply and demand. The demand for this cheap source of energy has skyrocketed internationally, while the supply has become harder to find.
The age of oil is almost over, and shortsighted, ignorant, selfish, suburbanites are still buying Hummers to drive for hours to get to work. They are blasting the A/C, and leaving computers and TV's on all day while they are not even home. They are eating food that is grown out of oil based fertilizers, sprayed with oil based insecticides, packaged in oil based plastic and shipped halfway around the world in oil powered ships and trucks. Oil depletion will hit them the hardest.
Thankfully many people are finally doing the opposite. They are working from home, or living very close to work. They are using mass transit, bicycles, and their own two feet to get around. They are eating healthy, growing their own, or buying food from local organic farmers. They have solar panels and windmills for electricity, and all their appliances are energy efficient. Their houses are well insulated and they conserve energy in all possible ways, they vote for the green party, and wear green on Fridays to promote peace instead of war.
We can free ourselves from the oil companies' chains, and move towards a stable world. We would never be subjected to another war for oil. There would be less toxic pollution. Things would be better economically, because innovation requires a lot of work, and workers need that, and the economy needs workers to work and pay tax.
It is an individual choice for us all to make. If we are greedy enough to think that we deserve to continue our existence at all, we need to change our ways. There is very little time left but we do have a final chance to prove ourselves to our dying mother; the earth. We have done much harm to her. Without her we are nothing, so why do we collectively choose to destroy her? Are we as a species that maniacally suicidal?
I for one will not feed the machine of death. I will not promote consumerism, war, greed, oil, occupation, torture, lies, or genocide. I promote truth, to get justice, to reverse the enslavement of the people, to bring them freedom. Once there is freedom, there will be equality for all. Once we live as free equals, there will be peace.
Come see a great new documentary, about the end of the oil age. It's called “The End Of Suburbia”. We are lucky enough to have a screening in our very own college on Wednesday, October 18 in the Forwell Hall at 7 pm, admission is free (donations accepted). Brought to you by Fanshawe Social Justice Club, and Post-Carbon London.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
It is common knowledge that fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy. Gas prices are going up for a reason; it's called supply and demand. The demand for this cheap source of energy has skyrocketed internationally, while the supply has become harder to find.
The age of oil is almost over, and shortsighted, ignorant, selfish, suburbanites are still buying Hummers to drive for hours to get to work. They are blasting the A/C, and leaving computers and TV's on all day while they are not even home. They are eating food that is grown out of oil based fertilizers, sprayed with oil based insecticides, packaged in oil based plastic and shipped halfway around the world in oil powered ships and trucks. Oil depletion will hit them the hardest.
Thankfully many people are finally doing the opposite. They are working from home, or living very close to work. They are using mass transit, bicycles, and their own two feet to get around. They are eating healthy, growing their own, or buying food from local organic farmers. They have solar panels and windmills for electricity, and all their appliances are energy efficient. Their houses are well insulated and they conserve energy in all possible ways, they vote for the green party, and wear green on Fridays to promote peace instead of war.
We can free ourselves from the oil companies' chains, and move towards a stable world. We would never be subjected to another war for oil. There would be less toxic pollution. Things would be better economically, because innovation requires a lot of work, and workers need that, and the economy needs workers to work and pay tax.
It is an individual choice for us all to make. If we are greedy enough to think that we deserve to continue our existence at all, we need to change our ways. There is very little time left but we do have a final chance to prove ourselves to our dying mother; the earth. We have done much harm to her. Without her we are nothing, so why do we collectively choose to destroy her? Are we as a species that maniacally suicidal?
I for one will not feed the machine of death. I will not promote consumerism, war, greed, oil, occupation, torture, lies, or genocide. I promote truth, to get justice, to reverse the enslavement of the people, to bring them freedom. Once there is freedom, there will be equality for all. Once we live as free equals, there will be peace.
Come see a great new documentary, about the end of the oil age. It's called “The End Of Suburbia”. We are lucky enough to have a screening in our very own college on Wednesday, October 18 in the Forwell Hall at 7 pm, admission is free (donations accepted). Brought to you by Fanshawe Social Justice Club, and Post-Carbon London.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
