Ecology of Doom
Sep. 12th, 2007 08:48 amThere's something slightly weird about eco-warriors and their sense of doom. Like1930s existentialists, they believe that everything we do is pointless, but we do it anyway, because we have to. Talking about a food swap in Walthamstow (no, it wasn't exchanging fried chicken for a burger), my colleague said that it was good to practice bartering because that's how we'd get food in the future. Another colleague said she didn't like going camping because that's how everyone would be living after global warming meltdown. Another starts sentences: "Come the apocalypse..." I believe that they really do believe this; they remind me of socialist worker types in the early 90s wanting total economic collapse so that. a new socialist utopia could be built.
Or maybe they just want to say: I told you so.
Or maybe they just want to say: I told you so.