Protest Germanys support for tar sands

[Moco Loco]

Man Aurora, you write so much. I'm not trying to disprove you or anything, that was only my opinion. Okay, I guess that's a valid reaction, that those people in the US are just a bunch of radicals, and maybe a big bunch, but I know that a very significant portion of Americans are at least not sure, which alone is kind of unacceptable.

I think the desire of many people to not give up the standard of living society has achieved is perfectly reasonable, to be honest. After all the progress civilization has made, who really wants to take a step back? The best solutions would, in theory, sustain both the nice things we have now and the environment. Of course, the ringer for this type of solution is a significant population decrease with other changes to follow. I myself would rather not give up my nice things, and like everyone else (or the greedy majority, anyway) would prefer to trade them in for something even better. In the event this is not possible, I think it's the government's place to do something about it (restrictions, regulations, etc). I'm not trying to stand up for anybody (at all), but I think that ignorance is the major player here. In short, if people really /knew/ how bad things are, I believe they'd give many things up willingly, but I still hold to the impression that almost no one realizes exactly what's going on in the world. But who knows, really; I live in one of the most luxuriously ignorant regions of the world.

Also, when I make blanket generalizations such as these, I'm really referring to America unless I say otherwise, since I've never been out of the country in a significant way.