Yup.  This all makes me very sad.  I heard recently someone is conducting underwater tests (blowing something up) on the West Coast, and although they say they're 7k away from any marine life (how do they know?), whales and other sea creatures will have to deal with the shockwaves.  This happens all the time all over the world.  Sea mammals rely on their hearing to communicate and sometimes the underwater noise created by humans is unbearable for them and causes them to be deafened.  This is life or death for them.  And I don't even want to think about what happens to coral reefs, fish who find a bloom of some horrible chemical that has leaked from an old barrel or other nasty event.

I also agree about the water supply.  I worry that we don't understand how precious it is, and also that Canada will sell off it's clean water to the US with disasterous results.

We need First Nations thinking on this.  We should be looking seven generations (at least) ahead to gauge the impact of current practices.

I wonder what kind of monsters are gestating on the radiation of nuclear war bombs? I can only pray that my time on earth will cease before it is their time to rise up & feed off the only food supply left on earth. Us.

Hey I love sci-fi too but the chances of that happening hmmmm I don't think we could ever get that lucky .... but don't worry there's more than enough people to feed monsters ... survival of the fittest .. being eaten alive would be kinda cool ... better than that whole dying in bed thingy

Have you seen The Host ?

http://www.hostmovie.com/

 I know my ending was a tad overboard... but I just wanted to get my point across about the whole water crisis. Technology has had some dire consequences. We are not individuals. We are all connected. Mankind needs to act like it.

Is there a point to this absurd, poorly-written rant?

And what crystal-clear mountain springs had vitamins in them?

Watch out for the Soylent Green!

Ahh! Cthulhu calls! And Sie has a talk show!

Including some pretty pictures of "New" Creatures from the Depths

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8231000/8231367.stm

You're clearly in favor of "technology". Do you not see global warming taking its toll? The whole point of this rant is to focus on pollution & what it is doing to Mother earth. You sad close minded fool.  

I am very impressed with your rant as some people called it.

But I think it would be more helpful if you supplied solutions. I like to think that I'm doing my part but maybe you have some other idea that I haven't thought of. Like the others have said it makes me very sad and I like you hope that my life comes to end before I have to see the worse that is to come.

Maybe you need to understand a simple fact most people really don't care that much about mother earth because quite frankly we won't be around to see the destruction even those people who recycle and stuff really only do it when others are looking

Technology is great

Humans not so much your computer does not pollute the air with waste the way humans do

Good point.

However I don't understand why we can't put the technology to work towards a better planet. We have come so far already. What happen to the electric car? Why is it that my brand new computer starts to fail me after only a year of use? If technology is so great then why doesn't it last?

Why do you assume such creatures need be "monsters"?

Perhaps they will rather be the next amazing evolution-steps. New life-forms waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.

Why is it that my brand new computer starts to fail me after only a year of use? If technology is so great then why doesn't it last?

Because you bought a cheap computer never cleaned it and then it went to pieces ?

Technology lasts as long as the users of it take care of it .....

Never the product always the user

Electric cars have been around in some shape or form since the 19th century

They are still around today

Believe it or not consumers are the problem with mass production

Apparantly people would be too lazy to stop and do minor refuelling in between errands

So go figure

Please go to: www.thestoryofstuff.com

That will answer why your computers break, and why the electric car is gone...I was reading an article lastnight about how thousands of bees are dissapearing and scientists suspect it has to do with microwaves in the air from our cellular technology interfering with their directional distinction. They also think its poisoning us (the microwaves in the air from satellites, antennas, radio/tv towers, etc.)

You can checkout a documentary on that here: http://drbenkim.com/cell-phone-dangers

My personal opinion: It all boils down to money. A man-made idea, created for fair trade, has now turned into a greedy race which is destroying us all...slowly....

P.S. I love sea food. Even though its now laced with mercury, chances are I'll die from something else (tritium laced water, aspartame addiction, polluted air, etc), so I may as well enjoy whatever I want. But, because of all this chaos in the world, I've chosen not to bring children into it - ever.

I agree with this statement.

More then the fact that I bought something for cheap. Because I don't I try and buy the best stuff out there because I want it to last so that I don't have to replace it in a year or two. Bottom line technology is still a tool. And I wish there was a better way to recycle them.

Perhaps you could help me to understsand how our highly specialized society should/could function without "money". A return to pure bartering? 

A return to pure bartering? 

Yeah and bartering only works if people have actual skills and goods to trade

No one wants to trade their winter tires for say an Ikea bed ha ha ha

People who have negative issues with money don't usually have any to spend .....

Sadly, the world isn't ready for a money-less society. It has nothing to do with how specialized our societies may be either. The problem is that too many people are just too selfish. For a money-less society to work, a society in which things no longer need to be bought or traded for, there would have to be more of a cooperation-spirit between people. A drive to work for the betterment of others and ourselves, rather than just for the piling up of loot to satisfy our own greedy desires. I long for the day when such cooperation will triumph over greed. 

Money exists precisely because our societies are specialized. Without money as a medium of exchange to provide a common basis for exchange of services, society would cease to function in the productive capacity that has taken us from the depths of general social poverty to the conditions we currently enjoy.

Why can't working for other people remain voluntary - a process of charity? What is working for others if it isn't charity? If you remove the voluntary component of charity, working for others becomes a form of slavery - does it not? Why can't we work to better ourselves and simply be free to be charitable to others as we individually decide we're able? 

We label "greedy" to those captains of industry that provide us with every single one of our modern amenities, medicines... why? Because they live like kings - far beyond our conceivable standard of living? Do they not deserve it for making human life on this earth for countless others just that much more pleasant? 

How can you say we all "selfishly pile up loot for our own greedy desires"? What "loot"? What "greedy desires" are you referring to? Giving the best possible life to our children? 

I love the response on this thread. Thanks everyone for your fabulous input. As for you Aquaman... I don't know what kind of amazing creatures can be created from nuclear warhead radiation. Have you seen a fish with three eyes? Northern Alberta has spawned such "evolution" because of the oil & gas industry's pollution. Much of the deer and moose are contaminated and cannot be eaten. Hello? Does anyone remember the Mad Cow Disease!? I don't know about this world sometimes. I guess I should start getting used to eating meal replacements and a million vitamins, because I don't think mother nature will be providing sustinence much longer. 

Well, I know when I say the word greed, I am talking more so in terms of large corporations who continually exploit their employees for their own profit. 

Please, have a look at this essay written by a man who used to work at Chapters:

http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/04_chapters.html

People who work hard are deserving of the money they earn. I agree with you. The man who makes medicines, teaches our children, etc. But in another sense the tables have been turned as to what hard work truly is. The employee that makes $9.5 /hour and serves hundreds of customers everyday versus the owner of the store who sits in his office and waits, giving his employees nothing but grief. It is that exploitation, that greed, that stripping of human talent for the pursuit of a dollar which I believe is wrong.

I have worked in places where the owners are continually on the floor guiding their employees, and I've been in places where the owner is absent and does nothing but yell at this employees.

No one can picture a world without money because we've never lived in a world without it. If we try to picture it, or explain our version, of course we will be ridiculed. The idea is absurd. Or is that statement absurd?

I would love to live in a world without money for one day to see what comes of it. Co-operation, planning, team work....wow! Think of the possibilities!

Do you have a specific definition in mind when you say "exploit"? 

It's an interesting story - and probably a good future case study for how not to motivate people, or manage change effectively in a large corporation. The situation at Chapters before the reverse takeover by Indigo is completely ignored. Apparently good management prevailed at that time, and workers were happy and motivated, yes? If the specific negative management style that was implemented afterwards was so abhorrent to the workers--largely unskilled--nothing prevents them from looking for another job while riding out the crappy work environment at Chapters. 

When you say "owner" - do you mean manager? For arguments sake, I'll assume you do actually mean owner. That owner has taken a risk and opened a store - providing employment and wages (a living) to a number of people that previously were without a living - yes? Assuming business goes well, the owner hires a manager to look after his/her interests in the business and instead starts to look for new opportunities to either grow the existing business (more jobs) - or start a new venture (more jobs). 

If an owner truly "sat in his office collecting/counting his cash all day every day" - he's useless but certainly entitled to that priviledge. If the employees disagree - they can quit. 

The world before money can easily be pictured. It used to exist. What we can't picture is a time where human nature suddenly changes and we truly exist not for ourselves - but for others - altruism. 

I would love to live in a world without money for one day to see what comes of it. Co-operation, planning, team work....wow! Think of the possibilities!

Teamwork .... hey maybe some of us like to work alone do you really think all corporations are bad ?

Do you really think that a world without money would be any less chaotic ?

You can still have power without money and exploitation and slavery and injustice .....

Gosh where do you guys get these ideas have you gone to school ? taken anykind of business /economics courses where does this kibbutz thinking come from ?

Owing a business hardly means sitting around as is running a company never mind employees who use every moment they can to  diddle around instead of working .... you get paid what you are qualified to do .... you don't get special cred for just being cute ... well maybe if you flash your melons in the right industry but you gotta do that before they hit the ground.