Fun While It Lasted

I have rigorously researched the quantity of fossil fuels that Americans consume for entertainment / recreation on an average Saturday in June and it exceeds the yearly consumption of all African and Carribean nations combined. In my calculations I have included motor boats and the trucks needed to pull them, jetskis, racecars of all classes, sporting events, joy riding and fishing trips. Cruises.Jet travel. Etc. Just kidding. I don't have anywhere near the energy or inclination for such a study. But that doesn't mean it isn't true! The point is, you will have to pry American's toys from their cold, dead fingers, along with their guns. And at the same time they are burning all this fun-fuel, they will complain about how they have been unfairly taken advantage of by the rest of the planet. And how they're done with being the nice guy.Time to get what's rightly theirs! The quintessentially American term "joy riding" kind of says it all. Even if they believed climate change was an existential threat, most citizen/consumers would have to think long and hard about giving up joy riding just to save their children's future. Generally (again, according to my research), those same Americans believe climate change is a "problem" that Elon and the Tech Bros are working on and will soon solve with some cyber wizardry. Since few of the "best and brightest masters of the universe" seem concerned, they aren't either. Certainly not enough to give up the jetski, go-cart or ATV. So yes, we've got trouble, right here in River City, with a capital T that ryhmes with P that stands for phuel. And Production. And Progress. All of which are toast. No easy way to tell the Modernizers that the dream which has sustained them for two hundred years is in fact a nightmare. I included fishing trips in the recreation category because that is how I burn my grandchildrens future, chasing trout around Montana and other salt-water speicies in their various habitats. Sorry kiddos. It's just how we all roll.