Yeah, but the thing is, is the ecological & individual physiological damage so much worse now than it was when we were kids? I mean, I was born in an age when my mom smoked and drank her way thru her pregnancy, my grandmother worked at an asbestos manufacturer, pesticides caused silent springs, acid rain destroyed lakes and forests, there were plenty of plastic goods and other synthetics like teflon in use, we ate plenty of junk food produced in factories 'that has machinery that processes nuts and nut products', and yet there weren't these widespread über-allergies and stuff...
I just find it odd that besides bottled water in plastic bottles, and a ton more electronics in the home giving off EM, there's not a huge lifestyle difference between then and know. Actually, all the residual pharmacologicals in the waste water leeching into the ground water is relatively new. But 'mommy's little helpers' have existed since the '40s... so is it just the grander scale on which everyone and their mother are taking fistfulls of pills? I dunno.
Bah. We're all doomed. I have a gaia rant brewing in me, but I just don't have the energy right now.
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:08 pm (UTC)I just find it odd that besides bottled water in plastic bottles, and a ton more electronics in the home giving off EM, there's not a huge lifestyle difference between then and know. Actually, all the residual pharmacologicals in the waste water leeching into the ground water is relatively new. But 'mommy's little helpers' have existed since the '40s... so is it just the grander scale on which everyone and their mother are taking fistfulls of pills? I dunno.
Bah. We're all doomed. I have a gaia rant brewing in me, but I just don't have the energy right now.