Reply #8: The China Syndrome [View All]

[ramapo]

Personally I find the experience of watching the developing countries, especially China and India, rush to duplicate our automobile-based infrastructure to be most depressing. In my fantasy world, I imagined that others would see the folly of what we've done over the past decades and try to do better. I guess nothing beats the thrill and freedom of pissing away gasoline while polluting the air.

The immense ecological changes reported in this forum go on in the background. Few are cognizant of what is happening. Fewer still have any intention or ability to do anything significant about it.

I get sick when I think back over the past three decades at the huge and seemingly unalterable mistakes that have been made. Our leaders have failed us but only because we allowed them to while we celebrated with the ever-destructive lifestyles of the past quarter century.

Or as another poster put it, we're fucked and just don't know it yet.