What ho. The Age of Stupidity. Again I attend a Green Party meeting. However,
it is only because I wanted to see the movie.Apparently we get a little advertisement excorciating Canada's efforts to
implement climate change restrictions.
Hmm, some sort of supernova in the credits. Not sure what that has to do with
climate change, unless you have to form a planet first before you can wreck it.
Ah! A ficto-docu-drama. Las Vegas consumed by the desert. Sidney in flames. Et
cetera. A tower 800 metres over the water north of Norway containing the past
of humanity. Extinct, sort of, but computers still work. Or at least one
computer.
Ho! An evil Indian entrepreneur creating a low cost airline in India. Did I
say computers were still working? I meant supercomputers with touch screens and
streaming videos and voice commands.
A melting glacier. Powerful bit of film.
A heroic Katrina fellow who fortunately had a camera along to take photos.
Much preaching to the choir, then finally some interesting stuff about an
English family in Cornwall thinking about cutting down their carbon emissions
and doing something about it.
Then the movie gets interesting and quite powerful.
Then the movie ends and the discussion starts. After all, this is being run by
The Greens. Any event run by any political party ends up with a discussion. If
the Conservatives showed "Citizen Kane", there would be a discussion on how
futile it is to have wealth and a conscience. Just sayin'.
And we get to what the Green Party, to me, always dances around. The question
of the economy.
Thesis:
The Adam Smith model where resources are infinite doesn't apply anymore.
Antithesis:
We must change our economic model to one where people accept a lower standard
of living.
Synthesis:
A miracle happens with respect to human nature with respect to wars not being
fought over diminishing resources and lowered economic security except it won't
be a miracle because the new economy will have jobs too that somehow won't piss us off enough to grab pitchforks and march on our masters.
Well...maybe there is a coherent economic plan explaining how jobs will work in the brave new future that has been developed by the Green Party. I just haven't seen it yet. Or heard it.
On the other hand, all the other parties have their heads in the sand while
quietly expecting their own miracle from some fantastic new technology that
will provide limitless energy, thus allowing us to keep squandering resources.
Me, I'm hoping I can develop teleportation to some other planet where folks are
more sensible. If you're nice to me, I'll even invite you.
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