\u201cWe\u2019re so self-important. Everybody\u2019s going to save something now. \u201cSave the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.\u201d And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don\u2019t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I\u2019m tired of this shit. I\u2019m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I\u2019m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren\u2019t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don\u2019t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don\u2019t. You know what they\u2019re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They\u2019re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn\u2019t impress me.<\/p>\n
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles \u2026 hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages \u2026 And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn\u2019t going anywhere. WE are!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We\u2019re going away. And we won\u2019t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam \u2026 The planet\u2019ll be here and we\u2019ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet\u2019ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.<\/p>\n
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we\u2019re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, \u2019cause that\u2019s what it does. It\u2019s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it\u2019s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn\u2019t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn\u2019t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, \u201cWhy are we here?\u201d<\/p>\n
Plastic\u2026 asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe\u2019re so self-important. Everybody\u2019s going to save something now. \u201cSave the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.\u201d And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don\u2019t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I\u2019m tired of this shit. I\u2019m tired of f-ing Earth Day. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[282,283,281,280],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-rants","tag-diatribes","tag-human-hubris","tag-meaning-of-life","tag-plastic","category-5-id","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}