reply to post by dervishmadwhirler
I believe you just hit on the real conspiracy.
My use of a resource is not a sin or a crime. Your use of a resource is not a sin or a crime. The real problem is not people's use of resources, but
the concept that people must be extremely careful to not overuse a resource.
We live on an awesome planet. We have resources in such abundance that it is unlikely we will ever run out of them. I have a garden that will provide
me with food forever. I plant seeds, spend a little time and effort to make sure the weeds and grass don't overgrow them, and each tiny seed becomes
days worth of food for my family. I save a few of the new seeds and plant them next year, and the cycle begins again.
I use lumber to build my house. That lumber comes from trees which grow naturally. Each tree drops seeds in abundance each year, each of which grows
into a new tree if not trampled. There will never be a shortage of trees this way, as new ones grow to replace those which are used.
I burn gasoline in my pickup to get from place to place. that gasoline is never destroyed; it is converted into CO2 and H2O. The trees and garden use
the CO2 and H2O to grow and give off O2 which I can then breathe. The plants die and return the carbon to the soil and geologic processes convert it
into more oil which can be made into gasoline. A slow process, this, but we still have as much known oil as we have ever had. We just don't use
it.
Pollution does not exist far from the cities. My water is clean and pure. I am surrounded by trees and grass and berries and fruits and vegetables. I
have deer I can hunt for food, and any time of the day you can stand outside and hear a cow lowing or a chicken clucking. My water comes from a well
which has never run dry and does not need clorine or flouride to make it 'safe'. No shortage of anything. Abundance of everything.
Pollution only exists when mankind bands together in cities so tightly as to make it impossible for nature to clean itself as fast as it is being
soiled. It will catch up if we allow it, but we seem adamant about our need to have everything delivered to us in a truck and everything covered in
rock (concrete). That's why I don't buy the stories about how we are destroying the planet. We're destroying small concentrated population centers
only. And it is those in the population centers who are screaming the loudest about how everyone else has to do 'their part'.
I do my part. On my 90 acres, we allow a few deer to be taken each year, and those are eaten. I have a standing agreement with the taxidermists that
should anyone be hunting for sport and not want the meat, I will take it and pay the fee. Just call me and tell me when it will be ready and how much
money to bring. I leave my mountain alone, save for the occasional walks through it to sooth a savage spirit. That ability alone is priceless to
me.
None of the things I do affects you in any way. If I eat more than is necessary to survive, what is it to you? I grew it, not you. If I drive a pickup
truck, so I can buy material to build a house or a shed or a fence, what is it to you? I pay for the gas, you don't. If I smoke a cigarette, what is
it to you? The lungs inhaling it are mine, not yours.
But instead we have bought into this concept of watching our neighbors, because they might do something that would affect us. We cower because someone
driving a Hummer is using too much gasoline and should be driving a Prism. We become oppressed because someone is living in a house that is too large
for them. We get angry because someone is eating too much food.
We want to control others. But we never will. We will eventually allow ourselves to be controlled by those who have force-fed us this socialized
lifestyle. And what is really scary is that we will happily accept this control, because it means that those evil overusers will be punished. Well, at
least until we become seen as the overusers. People tend to see things different when they become the target.
In the end, it will become one long struggle for freedom, marked with blood and death and terror. And someday, should the world last, we will achieve
that freedom, although at a terrible cost. Then, slowly but surely, we will again be fed the lies and agendas that will send us happily back into
slavery.
And in the meantime, we will continue to berate those who speak the truth, as morons, as uninformed, as unenlightened.
Feel free to call me a moron, uninformed, or unenlightened. I know you want to.
TheRedneck
