The coming Ice age

So, it is reported today that a fifth avenue (ny) family have gone completely green. They compost, make their own vinegar, don't use the elevator despite their eigth floor walk up, and ride scooters to work. In another, unrelated story a NY apartment building has collapsed. It's a shame the two aren't directly related. Perhaps when this family's apartment building starts to decay they can master the art of making cement, creating bricks from scratch, miraculously hauling heavy loads 100 ft in the air without motors and growing enough food in a window box to sustain life. I gotta say coffee beans are gonna be tough.

I've noticed that many of my friends are going green. They are buying or planning to buy hybrids and they are switching over to poor household lighting. Fortunately for them when they plug in their electric cars the power will come straight from God's navel to their socket. They should all plan to try to get by without steel, plastic, silicon circuitry and rubber condoms for a while. They should depend solely on Hemp for building materials. I know that there are various websites out there that will tell you that Hemp can save the world. I can unconditionally tell you this isn't true. I've sold rope and I gotta say hemp rope sucks. (an interesting aside is that domestic hemp is pretty bad. The best hemp and jute is grown in the tropics and requires {gasp} fuel to be hauled around the world.} They say solar power will save us. It that is the case then we better conquer South Africa and parts of the former USSR in order to secure at least part of the rare minerals we will need to roll out solar nationwide. It is true that some of these metals come from New Jersey but, having grown up there I realize that there is a very strong movement to abandon New Jersey.

Now I can hear you saying 'oh he's some anti-environmental wacko'. This isn't true. I actually believe that one of the few things that governments need to do is to manage our limited resources. It's just that I don't believe that we can mandate technology that doesn't exist nor can we mess with an extremely complex society in a major way just to give the illusion of doing good.

Yes, we all should live in a utopia under the sea but I'm gonna wait until Richard Branson builds it and offers cheap plots with low taxes. In the meantime I am going to open up a repair shop that at least claims to be able to fix hybrid cars.

"Oh yes Mrs. Wilson, your flux capacitor is shot. It's going to cost $6000 to fix it." Sounds like a profitable game to me. After all no one will want someone driving around with a faulty flux capacitor.

In the meantime I will continue to warn people about the coming ice age, drink imported coffee that is purchased at the going rate and eat old fashioned organic food. You know the kind that's just grown in dirt by farmers like me.