Gone Green

I've underestimated this world's potential to care about more than one thing at a time. A few years back when An Inconvenient Truth caught all kinds of national buzz, I thought to myself, world democracy > global warming. I knew our planet was dying but I believed the entire green-campaign was going to marginalize other, more important, global issues. Here I am, 3 years later, hopeful to live another generation's time and nostalgic of my summer in 2001 in the Monteverde Rainforesta in Costa Rica. I want my kids or my friends' kids, or if none of us have kids, then the neighbors kids, to witness nature's regenerative majesty. Just like how nature is so accessible now, it has to be that simple in the future. One plane ticket to Santiago, and you can get bit by black ants the size of penne pasta noodles! I say that because I'm eating some penne right now, and yes, I did see huge ants and they were beautiful!

I still haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, and I probably never will. Regardless, I know its right to recycle, save energy, kiss the earth, blah blah, as do the rest of the world. People are smart these days, if not guilty. I'm afraid of what will happen when I don't recycle old papers in my office, considering half the staff are vegetarians, one a vegan. I respect vegetarians and vegans by the way. I was a vegetarian for a few weeks once, and it was such a healthy, glutton-freeing, experience.

Among other things... theres the issue of war that I hate myself for. If theres one thing people hate Bush for its his opportunistic, exploitative foreign policy. I call his executive leadership "killing two birds with one stone". Yeah, I do. Its so sad though, and I always always think to myself, can a non-violent state really exist in a defensive, retaliative world. I don't know. Last year I read two books on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, one from an Israelian point of view, and one from an Palestinean point of view. The latter was more convincing.
Have you heard that quote, it goes something like, "War is like a game, and people are the players, if no one wants to play, the game's over". That would bring me to my knees.

Yesterday I was channel surfing on the radio, and when I got to 107.9, I immediately heard "This world belongs to the devil."
I won't expound on that. Think whatever you like.

Anyways, Do your part. And remember to wish Happy Thanksgiving to people who are away from their families, like Orson Hwang who is stuck in Texas alone with no body. Ask him what his job title is. It's hardcore.