Technology- The Curse!

I was having this hugely interesting conversation with my friend today this morning about ways to save the world. I've realized that anything we can do you save a part of the world, damages another part. For example: We don't burn our wastes to save the ozone layer but we put our wastes in land fills that pollute the dirt. [Think of it this way, girls pads is in those land fills....EW!] We don't pollute our water but we pollute our air so when we have rain, it all mixes to create acid rain which falls onto our soil where we grow our food which eventually gets sprayed with peptides which causes epidemics!

The reason my friend and I believed was the main source of our problems is technology! Okay so we can't live without our cell phones, our computers, a refrigerator, and electrical heat. But the demands of oil for our cars and oils to heat our homes and everything have gone so up that we are going to end up destroying ourselves! The manufacturing of these electronic devices are killing our ozone layer which in turn leaves the world able to rot. But we can't live without a refrigerator!

It also goes back to the newspaper article in the school's newspaper. We have such huge problems shoved at us when we all turn 18 and graduate college! Anyways this whole conversation reminded me of my book which satirizes the modern day world and how it seems that the everyday things, like war [which if you think about it, the war in Iraq is an everyday thing to us], is leading up to our self destruction. Vonnegut says: "This financial crisis, which could never happen today, was simply the latest in a series of murderous twentieth century catastrophes which had originated entirely in human brains. From the violence people were doing to themselves and each other, and to all other living things, for that matter, a visitor from another planet might have assumed that the environment had gone haywire, and that people were in such a frenzy because Nature was about to kill them all." [25]

Also I think it's interesting to point out that the story is pretty much told from the future reflecting back to the past [which is our present] and Vonnegut states that in the future time period, such things could never happen. And yet...the further we get into the future, the more worst off we become.

Hmm....