Everyone--I mean, EVERYONE--is "on the pay-roll." If you tried to live a day without using a single petroleum-based product you couldn't do it. From aspirin to pavement, our existence so intertwined with hydrocarbons that it's impossible for anyone, from any occupation, to wash their hands of it. Whether you're a musician, a painter, or an off-grid minimalist, if you don't hunt/gather your own food you're part of the problem. Even Greta Thunberg's Malizia II yacht was made with recycled dry carbon fiber. But if we "try not to think about" it and we "try not to become too consumed" by facts like these, we can collectively deceive ourselves into thinking everything is alright. Just learn to love it; because you'll never stop it. And if our world order is just a slow-motion Armageddon, then this great species of ours will become the next dinosaur existence. Thus, when the next civilization discovers our decomposed hydrocarbon remains, maybe, they'll make something useful out of us.
Everyone--I mean, EVERYONE--is "on the pay-roll." If you tried to live a day without using a single petroleum-based product you couldn't do it. From aspirin to pavement, our existence so intertwined with hydrocarbons that it's impossible for anyone, from any occupation, to wash their hands of it. Whether you're a musician, a painter, or an off-grid minimalist, if you don't hunt/gather your own food you're part of the problem. Even Greta Thunberg's Malizia II yacht was made with recycled dry carbon fiber. But if we "try not to think about" it and we "try not to become too consumed" by facts like these, we can collectively deceive ourselves into thinking everything is alright. Just learn to love it; because you'll never stop it. And if our world order is just a slow-motion Armageddon, then this great species of ours will become the next dinosaur existence. Thus, when the next civilization discovers our decomposed hydrocarbon remains, maybe, they'll make something useful out of us.