Saving The Earth In A Hummer
I went to the movies for the first time I have in years. If you think ticket prices in the US are expensive, they are better than the prices in Japan which are about $18 a piece (although they are catching up quickly). That $18, however, doesn’t guarantee you a seat - if the show sells out, the $18 buys you standing room in the back of the theater. So as you might imagine, I didn’t frequent the movie theater very often while in Japan.
We saw the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” about global warming. A couple ahead of us who were complaining loudly about how terrible global warming is and how inspirational the movie was ended up getting into a Hummer and driving off. I just sat there thinking, what is going on in these people’s minds? Irony at its best…
whenever I see ppl driving (almost always aggressively) in one of these monstrosities, I can’t help but give a nod to Stephen Colbert (on the Colbert Report): there should be a huge bumper sticker on the back that says, “fueled by oil. . . and the blood of patriots” or maybe even “we support terrorists.” Essentially, ppl who want the added “security” of driving around in one of these vehicles are destroying the environment, supporting the worst elements of the global marketplace (both terrorist cells and despostic governments rely heavily on our addiction to their oil), and are ensuring that we’ll always have brave men and women dying over in some godforsaken country because it’s in the “national interest” that Americans have access to cheap oil. It’s the epitome of selfish, vapid, arrogant egocentrism. . . . I don’t mind flamboyant displays of wealth, unless they’re blatant blights on the environment, the globe’s future, and so on. . . People are so arrogant and ignorant that it makes me want to weep, sometimes. . . .