Double Double Oil and Trouble

I just saw a showing of "A Crude Awakening."  I liked this film very much.  My one criticism of it is that people who are not yet informed about the oil crisis will more than likely be very freaked out by it.  It freaked me out.  I'm not always a fan of freaking people out to try to organize them into action.  Although perhaps this film didn't want to do that.  Anyway, you can't argue too much about the fact that we have to become less dependent on oil.  Ideally I think we should be completely independent of it as an energy source.  The difficult truth for some people is that there isn't a viable alternative energy solution currently that can completely replace oil and still allow us to maintain our standard of living.  I say that's cause for me to live more simply!  But a lot of people won't be into that.  Many people think technology will solve our problems.  We can't just sit around waiting on someone else to come up with a solution!  Futhermore, oil processing was a new technology in the early 1900's and we thought it was going to last forever.  We didn't have the forsight to predict how quickly it would run out.  Humans have to start thinking more consequentialy.  We have to look at long-term effects and see how interconnected we are to this planet  and every single being and thing on it.  Pull a link in the chain and the whole chain moves, pull too hard and the chain smacks you in the face.  How do we get people to care? 

In my last blog I talked about modeling behaviors.  I think my simpler lifestyle raises a lot of questions for others.  Many of them ask.  I'm more than happy to educate them on why I do the things I do.  It doesn't mean that they are going to go out and make drastic changes to their life right away.  But it does plant the seeds.  Someday, when we are in a crisis, and on the brink of a revolution, it may sway them onto the side of simplicity.  It may not be the fastest way to start a revolution, but it's what I've got to work with right now.  I don't want to alienate people.

The positive side of this is that I'm starting to meet some more people around here who feel simlarly to the way I do.  It fills my bucket and gives me hope.
On a lighter note... 

At this very moment I would like two things...to start an environmental revolution and to go see Andrew Bird on Dec. 8. Both of them are beyond my current means and abilities and arguably equally important j/k :( 


Peace, Walking, and Solidarity,
Courtney