Once the environmental destruction is complete.

What will even be the point of stepping outside your front door. I almost feel that way now. I'm reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring which has me depressed. ANWR is going down the tubes and now somebody has a thread about Florida coral reefs dying off in LBN. Fuck... If you really think about the amount of livable space in the known universe, it is confined to a small band of lithosphere that isn't under water and is generally between the 60 degrees North and 60 degrees South latitudes that has an atmospheric surface pressure of 1014 millibars and an atmospheric composition of 78.084% Nitrogen (N2), 20.946% Oxygen (O2). These are very delicate balances when you consider that the majority of what we are surrounded by is the empty vacuum of space. We do not have a whole lot of space people to live in people, yet we continue to destroy it. Just think about the areas of our planet that we can visit, but to remain there would be certain death, the Arctic, the Sahara, the Himalayas. This isn't rocket science people it's about survivability and the corporations and the Bush family evil empire just sell off our resources and the future of the planet to pad their already fat pockets. Fuck them, fuck, fuck, fuck!

the environment and the future.

I'd be sick with worry about the future the next generations will be facing.

As it is -- it do care, but I don't feel guilty about bringing children into this world.

One would think that leaders who have children and grandchildren would care about the quality of life they will be passing on to these kids. But I don't see any of this sort of forward thinking for the current crop of NeoCons and GOP.

ExxonMobil needs to make its numbers each quarter or they'll send their money to Democratic leaders.

Someone discussing the ANWR drilling (and how it would interfere with the calving grounds of the caribou herds) pointed out we should not interfere with the calving grounds of big oil - I thought that was pretty funny (albeit fucked up and true).

The only thing we can truly do is take care of our little piece of earth and lead by example. Watch how you live, who you vote for, and let others see how it benefits you - they'll follow.

we don't have to worry about the survival of the planet, just the lifeforms that inhabit it . . . if any of these lifeforms get too parasitic and disrupt the balance of things too greatly, the Earth will simply change enough to make them extinct . . . and then continue on her merry way through space until the next parasites come along in a billion or so years . . . that'll give her plenty of time to heal from the damage we're inflicting, don'tcha think? . . .

Very depressing. Goes as far back 1898 with H.G. Wells "Time Machine". Last two I remember was "Logans Run" and "Soylent Green". BattleStar Galactica is a little like that. One can only hope that if things get that far, people that got us there all die and that leg of the species dies out.

For our greed and lack of consideration for anyone or anything but ourselves,I'm really ashamed to have been a part of all this.Even though we fight our voices are not heard.