Bizarro World

Welcome to the bizarro world. Today the UK's top scientist declared in typical insane fashion that genetically modified crops had to permitted in order to ensure that humans survive the next century. One wonders how invested this fucker is in Monsanto or Bayer?

It's so great. If you have any sense of sanity left your only option is really to laugh. Or book yourself a few months in an asylum. Civilized humans screw everything up and the only choice we can think of is to embrace more of the same behaviour. The earth is trying to teach us a lesson, if we only still had the ability to hear.

The worst is that the voices that would speak out against all these loony moves are starting to shut up. Climate change (scary as it is don't get me wrong) trumps everything, especially sanity.

At work the other day we were discussing pushing for a ban on hydraulic fracturing a technique for extracting methane trapped (forever) in underground shale deposits. Now if you were a sane species you would recognize that leaving these gases where they are, effectively sequestered, would be a good ideal since this was yet another of the hottest years on record. And it's not like hydraulic fracturing is benign. The technique poisons groundwater with a cocktail of chemicals and methane of course.

But a colleague said, methane is touted as a bridge between oil and coal and the imaginary future of clean energy and a thriving economy. So we can move away from oil and coal by relying on natural gas (methane) for the short-term and build our happy little wind turbines and solar panels for the long-term. The thing is, I don't hear this plan coming down from Stephen Harper or Barack Obama. Their plan and this has always been their plan, is to grow the economy. This means no slowdown on coal or oil and opening up new energy sources to feed the dreadful economy. But because someone said that methane could be a bridge energy source we can't take a strong stand against dangerous hydraulic fracturing, let alone the death economy and our overpopulation of the planet.

The worst part of all this is that when I challenged my colleagues they all admitted that this was a dream, a fantasy hope against climate change. There is no plan. It's not going to work but instead of speaking out we are going to go along with it. Maybe the elites will take this seriously and won't do what they've always done and cash in on the killing of the planet.

Our hearts are broken. Our souls are shattered. We are as impotent as, well, ourselves (I know it sounds funny coming from me). This will be my last tour with an environmental organization. This will not get results. I know that there are some principled groups out there but they are few and far between. Thankfully it's not going to take a lot of people to get us where we need to go. We just have to get away from all the poison hope infecting the world. Let's get busy.