Showing posts with label affluenza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affluenza. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Don’t Have To Sleepwalk The Exceptionist Dream

There really is different way but it just took so long for me to see that I could take it
I actually can get through a day without massive doses of factory-extruded sugar, fat and salt
Loud noises need not be a major part of every single goddamn thing I ever do
All those daily tasks I must perform plainly should not require gigajoules of energy

Need not take advantage of far off poverty for some new plastic baubles
Can listen to the flow of natural sound instead of modern carbon-based cacophony
Don’t have a need to go to extremes in coming-of-age displacement recreation
It’s really not necessary that I pack on a few more extra pounds, year after stressed-out year

I can walk as they drive by, pedal in their exhaust stream and meditate in their stalled traffic
Take my cotton bags to be used again and again, much to their sardonic laughter and scorn
Humbly find my clothes among their once-expensive castoffs at the crowded thrift stores
Refurbish, re-use and re-purpose without over-paying those ignorant, so-called, craftsmen

No law states I must spend a fortune to try and cosmetically hide my perpetual aging
There is no reason that I should not save a goodly portion of everything that I earn
Now I really believe that these long daily commutes are simply fool’s errands
Needn’t keep on acting out like I’m as rich and attractive as their media models

I just won’t consume this so-called meat they build with all the care of factory production
I found that there’s a different tour available of this vast and mysterious cosmos
We can cook and bake for ourselves with natural and maybe even organic ingredients
Won’t confuse comfort and efficiency with a lack of their boorishly faux luxury

There is another horse I can ride when I need to head off into the sunset
Staying off to the side, still swept along by their currents, but not completely hypnotized
No fad diets or best-seller of the month can raise my consciousness anymore
Let us instead whisper of those quiet, gentle voices which soothe our mortal wounds

No sense to leave behind a pile of shiny, unused and worthless, yet still unpaid-for toys
No point in over-compensating for my mass-produced and artificial shortcomings
Just seeking things that we’re all really looking for, in doses that I can handle
Simply staying in the shade when it’s hot, seeking out the sun when I’m cold

Worshiping over-inflated media sports heroes will not provide me with a guiding light
This specter of blinding patriotism they so frenetically raise will not sustain me
Their deadly bickering over worn out and irrelevant religions cannot soothe my soul
Happily I begin to see there is nothing in eternity from which we can be saved

There is another way and if you’re quiet they’ll ignore you as they speed on by
You can reduce your earthly footprint and they won’t even notice it at all
Striving peacefully for a sustainable lifestyle will not raise their ire
I can smile inside and be elsewhere, not amidst this foolish noise and choking dust

Wondrous New Opportunities


When the arctic ice cap melts for good within just a couple of decades
the big boys can save tons shipping all that cheap shit they import from china

When oil becomes a bit more expensive there will be shining opportunities
we can coerce the illegales to swarm our filthy landfills for discarded plastics

The dried up, dead rivers will not feed us, clean us or quench our thirsts
but we can find cheap ways to desalinate the now lifeless waters of the sea

Now that the factory meat producers have spread drug-resistant pathogens
Big Pharma can make more billions while still ignoring the 3rd world’s suffering

Miring ourselves in a war of liberation not only gave terrorists an oil-rich base
But opened Somalia, Palestine, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan to our humorless friends

Having each year be within the top ten warmest ever measured
provides an ever-increasing market for the makers of air-conditioners

With the smoke and dust from asia circulating on the winds worldwide
personal respirators and oxygen bars will become real money makers

Before they rot by the millions in junkyards, far too expensive to be driven
kits to convert giant American SUVS into homes for the working poor could be big sellers

Thanks to the ever-increasing size of the deserts of the world
ATVS and dirt bikes will always have more places to stir up choking local dust

By paying them to recycle your discards and further encouraging litter
we can keep the poor in fast food money cleaning up our streets and parks

As our lands dry out and heat up and can no longer support crops
we can declare them to be game reserves and begin bringing in rich tourists

When the oceans rise, lapping up and over all of our great coastal cities
they can be declared to be international marine sanctuaries

The coming of unsustainably large populations provides rich opportunities
for cooperation between politicians and clergy in marketing resource wars to the faithful

As the deserts increase in size, driving out millions of marginal inhabitants
these vast newly empty areas can be used to produce wind and solar energy

Booming populations and urban sprawl giving rise to food shortages
may force agribusiness to stop fattening cattle on indigestible human grains

Burning up our remaining oil as fast as possible may have a green effect,
for if the cars and trucks and buses no longer run, they can no longer spew CO2

The world’s overdue realization that the credit of the US is not worth a tranche of CDOs
will deflate the huge consumer debt burden, to the benefit of our negative savings rates

If everyone migrates to the clean north to escape the heat and grow their crops
maybe the mid-latitudes can adapt in peace, free at last of our poisonous footprint

Though burning ever more coal for power will kill millions every year
Scientists say its toxic smog blanket will reflect some incoming solar heat

There is a good chance that horrible worldwide pandemics will kill millions
hopefully easing the retirement burden our youth are inheriting from their elders

Conditions in impoverished lands may worsen given their unsustainable birthrates
allowing political and religious leaders to train legions of brainwashed child soldiers

As it becomes far too expensive to pay utilities and upkeep on McMansions
they can be profitably subdivided into tiny hovels for swarming immigrants

When food, shelter and energy are more than most families can afford
at last they will stop lavishing wasted resources upon their foolish lawns

As the economy collapses and we must finally concentrate on the basics
illiterate sports thugs on drugs and steroids will no longer live like royalty

Famine, war and plague may reduce population by a frightening proportion
thus finally lowering our species’ dirty impact upon the face of the earth

Gasoline may well become too precious for 5 mindless trips a day for this and that
helping reduce epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease

When we can no longer afford to buy because they will no longer lend
the chinese can tear down their factories and start growing food again

Though the greenhouse effect will come down hard on many species
at least the Russians can put their vast and long ice-clogged wastelands to use

Even though I won’t be able to afford the gas for a vacation
I won’t have to watch a fat Okie idling a monster pickup on his cellphone in colorado

Transport expenses for food and other subsistence items must rise dramatically
But happily, costly fuel will garage those stinking OHVs, jet skis and snowmobiles as well

This dog-eating-his-own-tail ethanol fairytale will be exposed as corporate welfare
and at least the poor cattle won’t have to eat corn that they cannot digest anymore

Since all of our children are gifted, special, spoiled and selfish, they might not have the time
to raise another crop of proudly ignorant consumptive whiners, exactly like ourselves

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tiny But Unlikely Rightwing Flip-Flops


Why, we’ve even talked of downsizing on out of our beloved giant McMansion
Working on a plan to reduce my negative savings rate sometime...over the long run
Don’t necessarily need corpro-restaurant food every third meal or so
May have to cut back on sucking up on lamely-scripted corporate happy visions

Might not even strongly support every single goddamn defense spending bill
Perhaps we might need to start thinking about possibly looking into that global warming
Taking up meditation 3 times a week as soon as the next class starts
Gonna get the kids organic white bread and low-salt, trans-fat-free chips

Turning the heat all the way on down to around 70, like next winter
Probably going to hold off on buying that other OHV for a while
Seeing my newest nine passenger vehicle in a slightly different light
Not nearly so sure about where our elected leaders are actually steering us

Thinking that maybe these multiple meds aren’t really supposed to make me better
After this next trip, we may not go out to Vegas again for a while
Might not take such an interest in the lives of them Hollywood couples anymore
At this time I’m also reviewing my oversize emotional investment in professional sports

It’s even possible I could revisit some of the minor decisions made with my personal savior
Pretty much ready to recycle as soon as the Left makes it worth my while
Cutting back a bit on the fertilizers, pesticides and water I endlessly apply to my beloved lawn
Gonna choke down some more of that leafy green rabbit food every once in a while, too

Got a for real fitness program in mind when I finally free up some time
Our stockholders may have expressed some interest beyond our results for the next quarter
Maybe I’ll ask the next candidates if they could write some of their own speeches
Seriously, this really will be the last time we vacation on borrowed equity from our home

I’m not putting another plastic yellow ribbon decal on my beautiful new pickup truck
Pretty close to cutting back to only 3 lattes per week
Got to thinkin’ maybe them Frenchies ain’t really so mixed up after all
I noticed we never watch hardly any of them 300 deluxe package channels

Probably not going to drive the ATV off of the established trails so much anymore
Maybe them polar bears going extinct will mean somethin to me, in the end
Possibly their petro-dollar pie chart does have a fat slice labeled Terrorist Subsidies
Next time I might just try to understand the list of 45 ingredients and calories on the label

I’m signing up on my 401K or whatever as soon as my credit cards are ever paid off
Everywhere we went on our last vacation I noticed the same identical shit built
Thinking about selling the Harley but it’s sat for so damn long it won’t start
Driving an obese pickup 70 miles a day to my stupid job is making less sense over time

I’m trying to do the math of being broke and laid off for good at 55 but living until 80
Finally noticed my kids might not quite be reaching up to their Exceptionist potentials
It seems a little hotter every year and the birds and plants are acting real funny
Maybe cleaning up the lake does make more sense than just putting up signs about the toxins

Perhaps tax and spend is more conservative than borrow and send overseas
Is killing evergreens and charging off artificial marketers guilt really a christian holiday?
Dang, them little hybrids are easier to load groceries into than this giant pickup
I begin to wonder where these leftover batteries, paints and pesticides all wind up

What if raising pigs and cows like they weren’t actually even alive really ain’t Jesus’ way?
Does it makes sense to spend all my money on incurable ailments just to die within a year?
If it’s all in god’s hands and by his will, why then, is greed so goddamn all-important?
You know, I got to thinking, with the AC on, idling in my SUV, it gets zero MPG but lots of CO2

How is it that illegal workers go to jail but their bosses get to keep the higher profits?
Just where is the money behind this vast global warming hoax, anyway?
Now, where do the jobs and tourists go once the big trees are all cut and shipped overseas
The wife is going to cut back on her nails, hair and tanning stuff real soon
Are their multi-generational neglected children worse sins than the sex we denied them condoms for?

I might even stop driving 80-85 every time I think I can get away with it
Had a drive-by epiphany near the projects on the freeway, going to work, I think
Gonna go green or whatever, now that it’s a toney, temporary, liberal fashion trend
We booked our spiritual quest thru holy India tour on a safe Internet site

Making up for my life of mindless hyper-consumption with these funny light bulbs
Maybe we should have impeached him, just to show the rest of the world we still have some sense
With my windpower check-off, we are in the vanguard of CO2 reduction
Bet I will get my weight, sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure down again, someday

Cutting back on that trendy new seafood that’s replacing the last one they over-fished into oblivion
I’ll be leasing a 300hp, 0-60 in 5 seconds hybrid to reduce my eco-footprint going forward
Waiting for that new career they promised to create by outsourcing my job to foreign slaves
So is it that since God is love, we the faithful are driven to keep on so lovingly killing in His name?

Wow, maybe it should be land, labor, capital and sustainable entrepreneurship
Perhaps free markets doom elephants and tuna by paying ever more for those fewer that remain
Saw the corporate ads on ethanol and now I am climbing onboard with that, as well
Even if global warming is a hoax, I’m tired of my 8 ton SUV, anyway

I’ll be waiting in the drive-thru line in my electric car for no-fat, organic fries
I’m for logging jobs here at home but we demand that Brazil save their rain forest
What if most of our problems really did have something to do with our overpopulation?
Pulling back from this wildly pitching blur real soon now to begin contemplating the eternal void

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Carefree Times On The Road To Our Extinction


We increased our numbers far beyond the carrying capacity of our native planet
We fouled the water and poisoned the air that, after all, only sustained our very lives
Our once rich soil has been blown away or contaminated due to our inept corporate farming methods
We poached the charismatic mega-fauna to extinction even as we destroyed their habitat

We have gouged the earth to burn the coal that sullies the lovely atmosphere…and our kid’s brains
We swarm upon each other in endless fool wars with our dear mother earth as but collateral damage
We cut the shading trees for firewood or for quick profits building things not meant to last
We dump our toxic wastes into the rivers that we have channelized and dammed. Yet still drink from

Our great cities appear as nasty pockmarks from the tiny vantage points we built out in space
We decimated the great whales and spiked the seals milk with exotic chemicals
Our miracle plastic litter drifts throughout the vast ocean basins and no one is responsible
We’ll melt the polar icecaps and turn the mountain glaciers into dry and naked rock

We have carelessly torched our vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas and released their CO2
Most of us live in ignorance and poverty in spite of our noble free economies
The poorest among us bring forth the greatest number of new offspring into our overpopulated world
We perpetually delude ourselves with petty gods, sex, work, drugs, kids, food and patriotism

The once-beneficent rain is now filled with poisonous acid thanks to our virtuous industrial efforts
Deserts encroach more each year given our ravenous goats, constant firewood need & CO2 emissions
We look forward to our lord’s infinite paradise after lives spent blindly pursuing individual happiness
The unsustainability of our societies shall not be altered should it perturbs our daily lives...at all

We make loud noise in everything we do, never even aware of how very still we really should remain
We slaughter each other over petty disagreements between our stale yet vapid religious fantasies
Our emissions silently destroy that portion of the atmosphere protecting us from deadly cosmic rays
We haphazardly introduce exotic species that wreak havoc upon finely-balanced native ecosystems

In our prideful ignorance our fictional god anoints only us, of all species, with a so-called eternal soul
We prefer catchphrases and demagogues to personal responsibility and inherited wisdom
We waste trillions on a military whose sole purpose is to kill people and destroy infrastructure
Our road to extinction is built upon ignorance, greed, hubris, intolerance and shortsightedness

We breed our meat animals to be weak and stupid and we exterminate all their wild predators
We unwittingly select for the strongest microbes with our anti-bacterial cleansers
We find fake news sound bites more effective vote-getters than reason and understanding
We fill endless toxically-leaching dumps with tons and tons of re-usable and like-new castoffs

Our batteries, paints and lawn sprays wind up right back in our own drinking water
We scatter lead and mercury which dulls the potentials of our own precious children
Our economic system is purposely blind to the fact that it totally depends on the global ecosystem
Though we tramp blindly down the road to extinction, we thank god above it’s not the road to hell

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Taking An Ignorant Dominion Over The Earth


Quote any out-of-context scrap of your wornout religious fairytale that can grease your own agenda
Plunder this earth in the truly wacko belief it was created for your ignorant and selfish whims alone
Righteously waltz away from your messes with profit in your pocket and hand on the good book
Rest easy in the certain knowledge of your divine right to an eternal and shameless greed

Take dominion over the beasts and despoil all the places in which they might take their shelter
Hunt them down, burn them out, or even, vow to protect those few your children deem attractive
Treat plants and animals just the same: For personal & disposable use in any way you see fit
After all, they lack the everlasting souls with which your one true god has favored you, alone

Foul the air with impunity seeking extractive revenue or gas-powered wreckreation
Cut and burn the forests for corporate gain under his command to go forth and multiply
Concoct and release any manner of poisonous chemicals - if you think you can make a quick profit
Empty even the vast seas of all their life to satisfy the insatiable demands of the blessed free market

Sanctimoniously treat your brown-eyed cattle as mere non-living, statistical units of production
Modify their genetics at your whim, deny them the calming shelter of their herds,
Raise them in crowded filth, kill them without any dignity and just as cheaply as is possible
Rend and cleanly package them in bloody factories and then bulk ship them as consumer goods

Remain smug in the knowledge that you alone are cast in your one god’s image
Channel the rivers, strip their banks bare and introduce all manner of your toxic runoffs
Casually block out the divine skies with your smoke and His stars with your paranoid nightlights
Consume non-renewable resources at unsustainable rates behind casual, knowing smirks

Take accidental dominion over the atmosphere, obliviously unbalancing its exquisite constituents
Unconsciously but innocently infect and pock the earth that He bequeathed only to you
Derive moral authority from scripture and trust the outcome to the blind hand of free enterprise
Try vainly to place yourselves divinely outside of the earth’s cycles and its cosmic web of life

Put people and jobs above the natural world and its cycles without which they cannot even exist
Righteously commend the territories of the heathen enemy and his false god to ashes and to ruin
Matter-of-factly demand adequate income from any lands socialistically held in the national trust
Praise those who gash and extract for us and allow them to move on without healing the land

Swarm into any marginal habitat you stumble on and guiltlessly tip its balance towards entropy
Measure the health of your society simply by its consumer spending and unemployment rate
Always make sure to put people first in a ceaseless, artificial struggle to overcome nature
Be sure and erect sturdy fences to cut off access beyond your leveraged holdings

Blindly trust to the wisdom of billions of isolated, greedy decisions to result in a sustainable future
Blithely waste and pollute irreplaceable clean water on a daily basis without the slightest regret
Pray for relief from the drought and heat while steadfastly denying that our efforts produced them
Take it on faith that air, water and an equable climate are inexhaustible free goods, provided by god

Let the animals and the habitat which supports them and us all exist simply at your pleasure
Ignore the finite nature of all the resources squandered in raising your precious children
Permanently alter ancient rain forests with a single-minded focus on the profit for this fiscal period
Rest secure in the perfection of heaven, independent of any god-willed mess on this earth

Take dominion over the forests and plant millions of cloned trees, equally spaced and fenced-in
Artificially color the modified fish that you unsustainably farm while poisoning the ocean
Thank god for his blessings then stuff down too much and just throw away the rest
Draw freely from earth’s finite resources provided for you alone in his infinite wisdom

Trust that he will look after tomorrow thus allowing you to blindly consume and despoil today
Sleep well believing that you follow the only true and righteous path to eternal salvation
Trample the silent lilies of the field in a smoky and noisy quest for your vital wreckreational pleasure
Celebrate our fruitfulness under his edict even as we render our very nest unfit for life

Take up arms for god and lay waste to the enemy lands in His name and for His glory
Twist and eviscerate your god’s teachings such that you evade responsibility for the earth that nurtures you
Teach that preserving this lonely planet is criminally negligent in terms of family costs in jobs and money
Dwell on important moral concerns like abortion, gay marriage and flag-burning while ignoring the vast ecological holocaust of our foolish lifestyles

Mindlessly shovel resources into that blind and gaping maw of global corporatism
Trust that things will turn out all right according to His mysterious and omniscient plan
Call the heat and drought and new deserts the unfathomable will of your omnipotent god
Respond grudgingly with tiny band-aids as entire ecosystems collapse but unquestioningly increase already unconscionably huge military outlays
Try and save the species of your choice, if you will, though they have nowhere to live or anything to eat

Marvel at the wonder of His creation over the roaring of the bulldozers in the background
Displace the plant and animal communities with filthy, teeming, unplanned slums
Rip up fertile sustaining farmland for shoddy strip malls selling throwaway plastic schlock
Destroy ecosystem linchpins but still, find your solace in prayer as the mystery of His ways unfolds

Twist a fossilized religion and out-of-context economic theory into a rationalization for unencumbered, shortsighted & suicidal greed
Give thanks for all of our blessings and righteously ignore their toxic origins and externalized costs
View all of his creations through the unique lens of our own divine entitlement
Take dominion, secure in the knowledge that His will be done, in the fullness of eternity

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Abandon Unsustainable Programmed Hyper-Consumption


Junk all your oversized, poorly-built, gas guzzlers you silly hypnotized children
Realize that others are not sleeping as you relax in a comatose and ignorant arrogance

Convert your laughable McMansions into comfortable multi-family residences
Quit replacing productive farms and fields with sterile rows of throwaway dream homes

Build it to last and not to just make a quick buck and strut away with a cynical smirk
Ask how others are building spaceships, capping CO2 and recycling - without whining

Wander out of this cultural desert and think, just once, what you leave for the future
Go visit the castles and churches they have preserved from a thousand years ago

Quit tossing away all this hyper-packaging and compost the 25% of food you waste
Find out how they tunneled subways beneath their ancient cities but we simply won’t afford it

Scream bloody murder about the sinful waste of ever-increasing military spending
Don’t let them shovel so-called clean coal down your lungs as a green alternative energy source

Only flush your toilet with just enough water to get the job cleanly done
Bury the fast food corporate giants underneath a vast and empty indifference

Learn what real bread is and shut down the meat animal death camps
Simply slash the fat, cut the sugar, remove the salt and reduce the calories

Quit eating just because you are artificially nervous and overwrought
Forget silly gas-powered wreckreation and engage your body in real outdoor activity

Silence all the artificially noisy airplanes, trucks, motorcycles and automobiles
Just don’t let them charge any more useless shit that they cannot even afford

Get their god out of your pocketbook by taxing these sham corporate salvation franchises
Put the environment and our future ahead of this quarter’s stock price

Learn to speak and read at least your native language - and then we can talk
Out the corporate subsidy hoax of corn-based bio-fuel before it costs even more

Quit justifying eco-rape and unsustainability by falsely pitting them against people and jobs
Challenge the ridiculous notion that healthcare is, or even should be, left to the free market

Don’t let big coal and oil stifle the alternative energy boom that’s sweeping the world
Dump the black or white, just say no, do-nothing two-party system and embrace working coalitions

Cook good food at home and make them clean their plates and do the damn dishes
Wake up and think for yourself before they come to carry you off the couch on your back

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Greedily Pimping The Holidays

Every year, stoking your guilt with their latest phony hot items and newest big sellers
Another month and, What do you know? Yet another Merchant’s Holiday has arrived
They’ve got jingles and decorations, gifts and zesty-sweet, factory-produced treats
For they must perpetually increase an artificial demand simply to stay in business

They have special offers, items on sale, deep discounts and great promotions
They try to pump you full of shame and guilt should you dare not to spend
You can still buy on credit - even if there is no income behind your card
Your very humanity can be defined by simply following their purchasing cycles

$XMAS, birthdays, anniversaries, valentine’s day and others which come and go
Beautiful people in expensive advertisements meant to part you from your cash
Since you love them, For the family, Just for her, Thinking of you – And buying too much
Assuaging your guilt, buying their love & pretending to maintain Traditional Family values®

Co-opting christianity, playing on emotions and performing a greedy mass hypnosis
It’s on sale, Don’t you love them, Time’s running out. Are you some cold, cheap loser?
Halloween, thanksgiving, easter and Mother’s Day all beckon with their own tailored ads
The advertising pimps purify and hyperbolize them and parade them in front of your noses

For mother, Don’t forget Dad!, Because they love you. Buy now or forget the Happily-Ever-After
Buy this to avoid some unspoken punishment of guilt and loss of humanity
We were late again with the rent since it was little Timmy’s birthday this month
The kids are dosed with our ads and screaming for it - Won’t you make them happy?

Show her that you still love her by taking on a few more years of easy, over-budget payments
You can feel good about your debt because you didn’t buy any of this for yourself
The Chinese slave factories are being geared up for the anticipated phony holiday demand
And after every holiday the garbage truck takes away unused things that you could not afford

Perversely enough, Buyer’s Satisfaction lasts something like maybe almost 10 minutes
And then that gnawing emptiness returns and you must quickly focus on something else
You know you don’t really need it and you can’t afford it, But It’s ‘Christmas’
You struggle with your current car payments as you salivate over their latest models

Their survival and your jobs are tightly bound to leveraged over-consumption
Desperately they flog you with their absurdly creative and expensive fantasies
Their stock prices and bonuses dependent on increases in year over year sales
Locked in a deadly embrace, we dance blindly together towards an unnecessary credit abyss

They’re pumping tired Christmas carols down your throat for 2 months every year
You must buy big for birthdays and anniversaries or you are forgoing human relationships
Get with the program or face the fact that you’re an inhuman scrooge heading to hell
And don’t you dare coldly dwell on the fact it’s all invented by marketeers for salesmen & CEOs

Friday, August 13, 2010

Long-Term Free Market Environmental Solutions


Old growth forests wont be such a divisive issue after they’re all cut down and milled
Species preservation will be a lot cheaper once all those many useless ones finally go extinct
Numbnut loud pickups and noisy Harleys will go silent when there’s no more gas to waste
Government meddling is being eliminated thanks to Washington’s political paralysis

They’ll stop this poisonous salmon farming as soon as there’s no little fish left to feed them
The American prairie will come back when it becomes too hot and too dry for our crops
Clean energy wont be an issue once it’s either burn coal again or simply freeze to death
Email spam will disappear when the bastards cant afford to run their servers

We will reduce our population to sustainable levels via global wars and epidemics
Everybody can live a developed country lifestyle when only a billion or so of us remain
We’ll curb transportation greenhouse emissions completely by wasting all of our cheap oil
Our fanatical Islamist enemies will be weakened after they finish their internecine jihads

Once we’ve stripmined the seas, there’s no worry that the fish are too full of mercury to eat
Global income disparity will disappear when everybody makes 20 cents an hour
It’ll all be organic when petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers are unavailable
Sound bites will be simpler to create once the vast majority of adults are illiterate

OHVs and snowmobiles won’t be issues if they cost too much to pull around for wreckreation
There’ll be no housing shortage when they turn foreclosed McMansions into refugee housing
Agribusiness won’t be able to waste fossil water when there’s no power for their pumps
Lean and healthy grass-fed beef will be the norm because people will again eat all the grain

Won’t have to regulate mileage or emissions when gas always costs at least $5 a gallon
Forget greedy developers when the forests are torched and the snow doesn’t fall
Once we’ve sucked the Middle East sands dry we can just ignore them once again
Our collapsing house of credit cards will halt the Chinese environmental disaster

The Russians, or probably Asian occupiers, will prosper when Siberia thaws out for development
Fertile virgin farmlands will open up in Canada once this warming really kicks in
Australia is set to prosper from unlimited solar potential as it dries out and heats up even more
The disruption of the monsoon will relieve the filthy overcrowding of Indian cities

As South Africa becomes a desert, its problem with malaria will be greatly reduced
Millions of fire-blackened acres will curb recreational pressure on our wildlands
The collapse of commercial fish stocks may allow the battered bycatch to recover
Government bankruptcy and a lack of military fuel will curb the world’s only superpower

Alienation and anomie will evaporate in the vastly simplified struggle for everyday survival
Multinational corporate collapse will put their faceless leaders where commoners can reach them
Obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure will disappear right along with cheap factory food
Blunt reality may finally force us to once again reinvent our tired and failed religions