Ashmo said:
:: shoves alec onto a buttplug ::
Remember: buttplugs require fossil fuels. No fossil fuels, no buttplugs.
frissy said:
Well that might happen, but remember one thing. Where do the most people live? In industrial countries? Hardly. Most people live shitty shacks that have no electricity nor heat. A starving Marvin in the deepest Africa isn´t really (of course he is, but you get the point) affected that much when oil runs out. He doesn´t have a cellular, or even electricity. Ok, so he might loose he pirated Nike-shirt, but he´ll live. They mostly live of the land (now those pansies have been teached to feed on aid, but time to learn the basics again!).
I would pay to see you survive in a shack, frisco. Hell, I'd pay to see you survive in a shack wearing a pirated Nike T-shirt.
You are also absolutely wrong, by the way. Sure, some people live in 'the deepest Africa', as you so blatantly put it, but what kind of a life do these poor critters live? They live in tribes. They live in huts that are made out of straw and cow shit. They have worms crawling around in their intestines because 'pharmaceuticals' are for them what cold fusion is to us. They have 5 to 10 children but they made about 30 of them, fuck, they lost count, because when their 20th baby died, they just stopped caring. They spend most of their days working the dry soil and hunting for critters that are barely edible. And when they get seriously hurt or sick, they die. They die from diarrhea or some other stupid illness. What a way of living. Wow, I'd give up my spoiled, Western life immediately for this pure, raw way of living. NOT.
Huge conglomerations of people, big fucked-up metropoles, like in overcrowded India, means there is water and food a plenty in the neighbourhood. You really think you'll find a billion people trooping together in the middle of nowhere, in the dry fucking desert, just for the heck of it? Think again, frisco. It's so common for Western people to think that these countries are underdeveloped. That they do everything on foot or ride on mules. That they communicate with each other using smoke signals and shit. I'll tell you something: I have without a single doubt in my mind walked more kilometres on foot than your average Indian. You shouldn't worry about any of these people. Their video store has more worn out tapes of obscure Bollywood motion pictures than we have dvd's. These guys drive the cars that we don't want anymore. They've never heard of lead-free fuel. And they have cellular phones, don't you worry. Two outta three Chinese farmers have a cellular phone, and as we all know: one outta five people on earth is a Chinese farmer.
Plus: everybody just loves the Western way of life. From Alaska to Beijing. And this will only get worse in the coming years. Soon America will no longer be the world's greatest polluter. Soon their shacks will be replaced by plastic non-bio-degradable shelters. Soon they'll be buying fresh, clean air from us.
How come it is so fucking hard to admit: we are almost at the last page of the novel, the end of the movie, the grand finale. We've fucked up and it's because of morons like you and your mother and father and my mother and father and everyone's mother and father that this last page, this final moment, this so-called climax will be the biggest disappointment ever: 'WE'VE RUN OUT OF OIL, AND NOW WE'RE DOOMED!'
Try making plastic out of solar energy, frisco. Try transporting tons of food along the concrete highway with wind energy, frisco. Try flying from Brussels to New York on bio-diesel, frisco. And try feeding six billion people that way. I dare you.
I give all of us ten more years. By that time fossil fuels will be as rare as platinum or 24-carat diamonds. By that time it'll be survival of the fittest. I wish all of you good luck.
