How soon will Mars be inhabitable?
October 29th, 2005
Well I’m not a fan of those country’s going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket-and-the-apocalypse-is-nigh-approaching folks, but I thought I’d join their ranks for long enough to make a couple quick comments. ExxonMobil announced $9.8 billion in profits this quarter, just as every oil company on the planet is gouging us for the last of the earth’s dwindling supply. They also announced that they have no plans to seek alternative or renewable energy.
Their spokesman, Dave Gardner had this brilliant explanation for the decision:”We’re an oil and gas company. In times past, when we tried to get into other businesses, we didn’t do it well. We’d rather re-invest in what we know.” That’s the kind of selfless, innovative attitude that led Barry Marshall to prove that Helicobacter plyori is the cause of 90 percent of all ulcers by infecting himself with the bacteria. No wait, that’s not really the same thing at all. Maybe that’s why Marshall was given the Nobel Prize and Dave Gardner cries himself to sleep every night over the shell of a man he’s become.
Last tidbit of joy: The US Senate Energy Committee voted this month to open up the Arctic for drilling. We are hacking away at the life expectancy of this planet with a machete. Who’s up for a trip to the moon?
Entry Filed under: Politics
9 Comments Add your own
1. John | November 20th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
I’m down to hit up the moon.
2. Barry | November 24th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
I connect the dots of exploitation of ultimately finite, non-renewable energy sources (fossils fuels) at a tremendous rate by those who have the means and power to exploit them to the privatizing of other resources. The “People” of the world have limited power in determining either fossil fuel consumption or the (lack of) development of renewables. Corporations and governments — non-democratic and “democratic” — are both permitting and engaging in the privatizing of energy, water, open land, and, less directly, clean air. This at a time when even in the grand democracy of these U. S. of A. we are agreeing to an ever-increasing rich/poor discrepancy.
3. Mark Stamas | June 17th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Well, you really ougth to realize that in fact it is over. Time is counting, and keeps counting, while humans while away their existence.
4. Mark Stamas | June 17th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Fucking spell checkless blogs. Pisser.
5. Mark Stamas | June 17th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
I don’t want to read a rehash of the NYT or some other “liberal” rag man. The real problem here is that the human race has no concept of a holistic world view especially the US. As Dylan once said “if there is an original thought out there I could sure use it now”. Ironic, quoting when decrying lack of originality. Fuck me.
6. Devin Castles | June 19th, 2006 at 1:27 am
You read The Nation, you don’t read the NYT. To lump them all together as indistinguishable liberal clones is lazy and inaccurate name-calling. Yeah, that’s right, bubba. An unoriginal post, yes, but don’t drag the NYT into this.
P.S. Katrina vanden Heuvel is an egomaniacal tart.
7. Mark Stamas | June 19th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Let’s not get personal blogger boy. I am a faceless commenter upon useless commentary.
I don’t read the Nation. In fact, I don’t read.
Slinging faceless baseless so called facts is the foray of the media monstrosity.
I on the other hand have opinions, my opinions, and this blog sounds like……(spoken with the corpulent cushioned sibilance of Rush)…the liberal media.
So fuck the NYT and all the rest and let the real Nived hang out.
My man Al is back, and dead in the water.
Where’s Nived?
8. Mark Stamas | June 20th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Lazy bastard. I tell you what, the sky is falling while not literally in the realm of this reality is actually the most accurate statement. We humans are facing some seriously hard times. Most of us don’t know it. Got nothing to do with no fucking politics either. Has everything to do with the earth and our sustenance upon it. We can save our race, still, but only just. I would rather party like its 1999.
9. Devin Castles | June 22nd, 2006 at 6:45 pm
And I’m the liberal. How is what you say fact and what I say bias? Is the sun green?
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