[microsound] Someones finally said it

[Renato Fabbri]

this is maybe the greatest source of hope i've seen so far:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof
(more modest and widespread use than those on the wikipedia article though)


2009/5/14 Manannan Mac Lir <macdara at email.com>

> At the end of a day long symposium on "energy and sustainability" yesterday
> a round table discussion was held with all 6 speakers, 1 architect, 2
> engineers, 2 scientists and a writer. The final question to the panel was
> what their hopes were for humanity given all the current blah, the first guy
> said as long as we kept "crunching the numbers" we could successfully avoid
> total collapse, I can't help think that writers like philip k. dick were
> trying to prepare us for something, the second guy started off normal but
> turned sharply, he's been writing books and designing ecologically sensitive
> buildings for 40 years and he said he's lost more hope the older he's
> gotten, "I've lived through 3 energy crises and two economic meltdowns and
> nothing has changed" were close to his exact words, at this point he started
> to get visibly emotional and talked about the fact that now people are just
> making it worse by "eco-bling" as he calls it. Why the fuck aren't we
> getting the point? To see the pain sadness and fear in a man in his late
> 60's (i think) was the first time I've seen anyone publicly express the
> genuine vortex we are in as a whole (at least in ireland and britain
> although  i think everything, similarly to the berlin wall, will , melt into
> air like our financial markets have without the banging we're used to the
> media ensuring us of), there's a thing george benjamin (possibly) said, it
> would come to the point where humanity would become so detached that it
> would witness it's own destruction without even wanting or being capable of
> reacting, like through a pane of glass. The air outside my door is dirty
> because of the pollutants machines spew into the atmosphere, an exhaust pipe
> is given pride of place over my lungs, legally too, what happens if i smash
> a cars lungs up? im not a great believer in primitivism but government has
> not governed. where do we go? little bit's, paper bags instead of plastic,
> cleaner washing up liquid... this is what we're being given, culturally i
> think there's been a huge response, in subtle but fundamental ways obviously
> not in mainstream. our society is in a state of collective denial before
> it's mass monetary hallucinations finally begin to contaminate its blood,
> perverting the inside before total disintegration, we don't have guns over
> here but you can be damn sure someone's gonna get them. trying to get
> a sense of joy about the future is impossible, the only thing i can do is
> try and accelerate the immanent disintegration, politically, socially
> whatever.. sorry for a pessimistic rant but its only through talkin about it
> that people understand, haved to say itd be nice to SEE some microdudes some
> time, optimism is the smile il get on my face when the corporate capitalist
> detritus has been purged from the immune system of the planet, probably
> taking a larger chunk of us with it anyway, free market cannibalism, who
> knows, could be the next economic model for all of us...still smiling tho,
> maybe we can eat our friends
>
> Mananann Mac Lir
> macdara o maolbhuaidh
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