I get to thinking a lot about how people are concerned about the enviroment, the planet and the air and the soil. Being raised on star trek, star wars, babylon 5, voltron, gobots, autobots AND decepticons...I can say with honesty, we will fuck up our planet and we will have to get the hell out of dodge. My opinion on the enviroment is this. living creatures have been around for about 1 billion years. Humans have been around for a about hundred thousand. Wow, we've been here for .01% of the time since creatures started doing what creatures do. (is that math correct? I took calculus twice...) Anyways. In the grand scheme of things, we aren't even a fleas fart in the wind of the universe. So why do people get so concerned? In 40 years you'll be worm food anyways. an 140, your kids will be worm food. So you're worrying about 0.0000001% of the history of earth? Hrmm.....

Here's where it gets interesting. So now that greenhouse gases are making our planet warmer (god it was a hot winter this year, i think it hit 12 degrees F in chicago). When we fuck up our planet in the 0.000001% of history we're working on here...where do we go, check this out:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8397

Neat huh? Ice on mars, lots of it. Is it water ice? Maybe. If you ever caught Total Recall, you were blow away by Paul Verhoeven's awsome direction of Arny pulling a beach ball out of his nose right? Well remember how they colonized mars? They melted the underground ice layers. Yeah, so sci-fi is now sci-sorta-not-totally-proven-fact! In your face martians!

Ok, now my point. As we slowly burn up all our oil (lord knows we can't drive on dead dinosaurs and tree ferns forever) and heat up our planet, we humans have 2 options:

• Adapt as Las Vegas becomes a tropical rainforest and all plants go apeshit with all the CO2 in the air.
• Move to Mars, which with some planning can become livable (water+rich soil=plants and plants=air)

If we all stay, it will take hundreds of years but everything will change, NY, SF, LA, Oak, Portland, etc will be underwater, which is cool, we can move on, bums will just have to shoot up on the mountain tops and urinate on cars that on high ground.

If we move to mars, who is gonna go. Rich people, and Smart people. Which begs the question. What happens if a planet is founded on rich smart people. What will the focus be. Power? Control? Universal Remotes that wipe your own ass? How do we as a society protect the culture and history of our checked and beautiful past?

You think Craig Berstein the Planatry Zoologist gives a fuck about the new indie bands? Or if Mr. Winterfogchestingtonville the 4th cares about what artists in Soma are doing? They don't and what ever society we begin with them at the helm won't either. So again i ask, what's the answer? As we slowly kill ourselves, are we going to adapt or flee (which seems to be our thing!)