Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Going to get neo from cadets

9pm
Driving east on 12th
by kits high school

Jeannie looks up from her math book she brought
To study in the car and says

We are on the wrong side of need

What's that mean I ask

Look around she says

Kids on the high school playing soccer
Nice kits homes
Nice kits cars

These are all wants she continues

By now we are at 12th and Arbutus

She goes on

Sometimes wants overshadow needs so that people forget about their needs

I suggest she write this down. She shakes her head.

And then, alas, I interrupt her
To tell her what she already knows in theory
But give her an example about the republican climate deniers

She knows

What they need is an earth strong enough to support people through disasters 

I was too busy to realize what she had just said until writing this out

But this is it

We don't need to find the exact moment of peak oil or peak water

We need to find the moment at which we no longer have enough oil to sustain us through a disaster 

What disaster?

Sea level rise


We are committed

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