Monday, November 22, 2010

Could Tie Dye save our planet?

Somehow it is comforting to think that law will save us from our environmental and energy collapse.  The bad guys have got to answer to a higher more powerful force like a father dealing with a school yard bully.  The problem is there is just too many bad guys now.  Namely all of us.  Regulation can't be our last best hope to sort out the mess of pollution and energy crises - We'd have to arrest ourselves.  So what is the answer?  Who or what do we turn to for redemption?  I say that brewing in the fabric of our society are the seeds of a green rebellion.  History could repeat itself with a grand stand 60's revival if anti environmental power takes seat in the political arena and the natural world is scarified further in the name of greed.  While they may choose an axe the youth now making loving study of the natural world may choose song, dance and peaceful resistance to any coming establishment that truly threatens their Green DNA.  Perhaps whole sale adoption of sustainable life instead of it being forced on us by law will gain the most ground.  Maybe we need to fall down politically thereby making the battle less about the unseen and more a rally point for mother nature.  I wonder if tie dye would come back?

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