Poo transplants

[Marburg]

yeah, personally, I'm not touching the cancer thing with a 10-ft pole. I can't pretend to know how I'd deal with it unless/until I'm forced to face it.

Anyhoo, backtracking a wee bit, there's alot here to catchup on without making a tedious wall of text. I honestly hate those things

Instead of doing the 'what if' things, I can comment on some big 'what did' things Fair nuff?

Suburban sprawl:
Back after the end of WWII, home ownership was uber cheap. America at the time was a world leader in manufacturing & it was possible for the man of the house to support the family while the housewife stayed home to raise the rugrats...this was a major change in culture because of large disposable incomes & low cost of living compared to the cluster eff of the great depression in the 30's
(incidentally, 'White Flight' was one of the biggest factors in the creation of suburbia because to be both blunt & historically accurate, Caucasians didn't like having to mix with the minorities moving in...so they ran off outside of the city limits)

Anyway, suburban culture gave rise to the idea of the 'american dream' of the white picket fence & 2.5 kids.
Now, with the need to commute from the burbs to the city where the jobs were, cars became more affordable and common. This raised demand for fuel not only for the suburbanites, but also for the support industries that supplied them. Gas was cheap & all was seemingly peachy. Even after hitting peak oil in the 70's America never learned to change consumption habits & still refuses to now because we allow ourselves to pass the buck to another generation. The combination of our long outdated 'convenience or death' attitude coupled with our ignorance and apathy of government means (Imho) that the only thing that will do the trick is a collapse of the system.

America is not the greatest country, it's not the smartest, but I give credit that we are slowly starting to glimpse the reality of the mess we've made worldwide.

We have long had the tech to rebuild our infrastructure, we have the workforce to do it & it wouldn't take long at all to go green. It's just gonna have to take a massive dose of pain to smack us out of the fairy tales that we are fed and love to cling to

Public protesting is good & all, but the only thing that speaks to corps is money. It's not hard to put global corporations back in their place where they belong if we simply put more effort individually to withhold our money from the corporations that hurt us more than help. Put a big enough dent in their profits and call bull**** on the infotainment industry, they will very, very quickly go back to kissing our asses & stop pretending to be Necktie Kings.

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