I haven’t had much time to read for the last few months so I was excited to get into some good books during my down time in Santa Cruz. I picked up Vonnegurt’s A Man Without a Country along with a couple thicker books. Though I purposely avoided buying anything that bore any relation to my work, Vonnegurt has a bunch to say about oil in the environment. I guess its not possible to escape work when you work on one of the most prescient issues of your time. Well I thought I’d share an expert of his thoughts on oil. Vonnegurt, as with every subject brings a perspective and style that is refreshing and effective…
I once had a high that not even crack cocaine could match. That was when I got my first driver’s license ~ look out, world, here comes Kurt Vonnegut!And my car back then, a Studebaker as I recall, was powered, as almost all means of transportation and other machinery today, by the most abused, addictive, and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels.
When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there wont be any left. Cold turkey.
Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t the TV news is it? Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts on fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.
- Kurt Vonnegurt, RIP
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