... in a world that worships the false god of economic "productivity" and consumerism.
I can't help but recall the various palm oil biodiesel schemes. Those were something worse than stupid fossil fuel burning diesel automobiles with fraudulent emission control systems, or future solar and wind energy electronic waste. Fuck you and your mother, baby orangutan, my biodiesel car is "green." Monoculture vegetable oil or ethanol ain't much better, there's no buffalo and wolves and aboriginal Americans wandering those bleak plains.
If the cheapest steel was made directly from the corpses of endangered species and welfare recipients there would be some worshiper of the Ayn Randian magic-hand-of-the-free-market willing to trade in it.
I'm of a Christian cultural background and had a very fine Easter with family and community, thank you. Very well sprinkled with water. Nope, didn't melt like the Wicked Witch, so there's still some hope for my twisted immortal soul...
I suppose it is comforting that our descendants, should they choose a far more rational path than we have, will be able to make the steel required to raise the living standards of every human being with minimal environmental impacts.
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