April 22. Saturday. I got no clue it’s Earth Day.

Earth Day doesn’t get a hell of a lot of publicity. Not in my news bubble. I don’t keep up with the Save The Planet News. I don’t contribute my time to Greenpeace. I’m part of the problem.

I figure it’s a lost cause.

Yeah…so I’m driving to the Corte Madera Safeway…I’m happy as a clam cuz I got this suck ass job…I turn on my radio and get static. I switch channels and everything’s fine. It’s just the NPR station has static.

It’s not static.

It’s the sound of rain.

A downpour. Steady, like my nerves. Sea birds caw. A real downpour…

Now I remember. NPR radio has a tradition. They play earth sounds on Earth Day.

I’m thinking I could kick back on a hammock and listen to NPR’s Earth Sounds and drift off to sleep.

But I’m on the freeway with assholes passing me like Hell’s Angels.

I put on a Mega Death CD and speed up.

Global Warming

I know the human race is fucking up the planet. I believe in Global Warming. I don’t call it Climate Change. That’s bullshit. Call a spade a spade. It’s Global Warming. The real deal. I believe the science. I’m not a fucking Medieval Dude like some of these people. Mostly Republicans. They call it WEATHER. Say it’s all a hoax. Vaccinations. Drilling Restrictions. Birth Control. Climate Change. It’s all radical progressives imposing Socialism. What they mean is COMMUNISM. They don’t say it. They say Socialism. Why, I can’t figure. Maybe they actually think Socialism is Communism. Lenin purged the Socialists. They were too moderate. Conservatives don’t know that? Well, I’m veering off track. Climate Change is what we’re talking here. I mean Global Warming.

Call a spade a spade.

Lenin 1920

It’s a loser’s game

I believe the planet’s heating up. But fighting it is a loser’s game. People getting born faster that rats. Especially in third world countries. Trump calls them Shit Hole Countries. And these countries. Brazil say. The president of Brazil sits on the largest rainforest in the world.

The Amazon.

Since 1998 an average of 10,000 acres of rainforest cover has been destroyed every day. In 2021 alone 4.8 million acres of the Amazon rainforest were lost.

Sentient Media

By twenty fifty half of it will be gone.

And what can you do to stop that? We’d need to take Brazil by force and impose a radical progressive government. An EcoTopia type government. That’s the only way we’ll save the rainforest.

Force. Not love.

Anyway, Brazil is just one example. Plenty of other countries with threatened natural environments. Populated by desperate humans. The only positive? The desperate ones aren’t hanging around to buzz saw their rain forests. They’re escaping up here.

But they leave behind the real Rat Shits. The despoilers. Gangsters. Red Blooded Entrepreneurs.

The tough take charge.

We know the score. We invented it. We call it Rugged Individualism.

John Wayne in The Big Trail (1930)

So if nobody is tough enough to stop Deforestation. If the toughest country, us, won’t stop it. Because we’re as bad as the despoilers. If nothing is gonna stop the pace of depletion. What then?

Nothing.

The buzz saws keep buzzing.

Recycling is pointless. If everybody recycles while the buzz saws buzz you might as well be pissing in the wind. It’s like fighting a pit bull with a fly swatter.

And the thing is, I only gave you one category. Deforestation.

Forget about fossil fuel burning. Drilling. Plastic bottles clogging the ocean. War Mongering. Overpopulation. Species Extinction. Etcetera. Etcetera. Etcetera…

Playing Earth Day on the radio. Recycling. Paris Agreements. Climate Protection Treaties. United Nations Conferences….It’s all a Loser’s Game.

There is one bright note

The Earth is not doomed.

We are.

All we’re gonna do is despoil ourselves.

When the air becomes poison a few of us (the fat cats) will survive in bio dome type bomb shelters. But even those will be dust in a few thousand years.

Unless of course we do it quicker with Nukes.

Then, say a hundred thousand years go by. Two hundred thousand.

The Earth will be pristine once more.

And a more deserving species with occupy the land.

Maybe I’m talking shit.

I don’t know.

What do you think?