Materialism up, Conservationism down

[Cavernio]

Yeah, the world's going to hell in a handbag. Damn youngsters. "Shonny, when I wash young"...wait, I'm still young.

I see conservation as a hopeless cause. This doesn't mean that I'm against it. I don't want to see the world turn into a vaste garbage heap, but the very act of living destroys something. Humans just happen to destroy a lot. But they also create a lot while they're doing it. No, the highway's not as pretty as the woods, but you can get from point A to point B because of that highway. Sure, those woods aren't holding wild animals for us to eat and kill, but we've got farms there now, and farming is sustainable, although not nearly as beautiful. I've been thinking lately about how in order for humans to develop at all, we put order into everything around us. Everything we rely on has got to be controlled, or else we die. Death = bad. Them's the breaks. And controlling things means destroying/changing them.

I don't know whether I'm materialistic or not. I've certainly got no collection of things or money, although I appreciate technology enormously, and I also like art, in all it's forms. But art's materialistic.