World War Five

The way we do things as a species, and as Americans, is so annoyingly ass-backwards in so many ways. A lot of it because of corruption and greed among our leaders, and the ignorance and stupidity of their followers.

Take going to the bathroom. Water and sewage are included in my rent - I’m paying, but I don’t know exactly how much, a monthly fee to urinate and defecate. This money goes to pay for treating the sewage, and cleaning up the water before it goes back into the environment.

This is STUPID! The sewage treatment plant should be paying me! If the plant, and our plumbing systems, were properly designed, sewage treatment plants could actually generate energy and make money. My bodily waste is actually a valuable commodity, if only the world would wake up and realize it!

The trick is separating the urine and the fecal matter into two streams. The brown stuff could then be used to easily generate methane, which could be burned to create electricity. Urine can be turned into fertilizer and a bunch of other valuable chemicals.

Imagine if every time you took a shit, you got paid 25 cents, every time you took a piss, you made a few pennies. What if instead of paying the sewage treatment plant every month, they sent you a check?

Here’s a link to an article detailing the science and technology involved:

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19225831.600

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So I have added all sorts of raw nuts to my diet in the past two weeks. That’s my snacks now - raw nuts, dried fruit, raw pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds. All part of my ingenenious (but probably futile) plan to avoid heart disease.

I stopped eating red meat a few years back after reading a book about mad cow disease. (Cut back is more precise, I still eat bacon occasionally). One of these days I’m going to save up my money and buy me a nice big juicy organic grass-fed steak.

Evidence continues to mount showing that organic food is more nutritious than non-organic food, and even has fewer pesticide residues, so I buy organic whenever possible. On the west coast, organic food is not much more expensive than regular food, or rather, regular food isn’t much cheaper than organic out here.

I bought a food steamer, no more frying. Steamed vegetables taste fantastic, steamed meat not so good. Maybe I just need more practice. I cook chicken and fish on my tiny little gas grill - sure, it’s carcinogenic as hell, but meat tastes best cooked over an open flame.

Chances are high that I will get cancer and heart disease. I work with lots of toxic chemicals and breathe in lots of dust. I live and work next to a highway - the primary cause of heart disease is breathing in tiny little microscopic particles of diesel exhaust, which get into your bloodstream and act as nuclei for arterial plaque.

But there’s a good chance that the world won’t be around long enough for me to even start showing signs of these diseases. Global warming is spiraling out of control, and we have probably already passed the crucial tipping point of a runaway greenhouse effect.

It’s all downhill from here, folks.

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I bought myself a pillow stuffed with buckwheat and millet hulls. When I lay my head on it, it is as hard as a rock - but it is a strangely comfortable rock. My neck has never felt better. My sleep is far from perfect still, but it is much improved. All thanks to a sack full of agricultural debris that I paid an ass-load of money for.

I’ve slept on pillows stuffed with feathers, down, polyester fiberfill, and high-tech memory foam. They all suck. This pillow stuffed with farm waste, popular in the middle ages, is by far the best pillow I have ever slept on.

Progress ain’t progress if shit gets worse.

Now I want a whole bed stuffed with buckwheat hulls. Fuck this innerspring mattress shit. Whose bright idea was it to sleep on METAL SPRINGS? Real genius material there.

Buckwheat hulls are expensive and heavy. Once upon a time, I bet they were free, like water and air used to be.

The good old days…

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I saw the Al Gore global warming movie a few days ago. It’s very good, actually much more engrossing than most movies out there. And it’s all sadly true.

I hope that this movie can make a difference, because it is fucking hot outside. I am roasting without any AC. At least it’s not humid here, but still, it’s just brutal out there. And it’s just gonna keep on getting worse. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in days, ’cause of the heat. Last night, I woke up like every 15 minutes. My kitties are just melted puddles of laziness sprawled on the floor. It’s too damn hot to think.

I had a vision of the future, twenty years from now. The young people, gathering all of us older folk up in labor camps. Mass trials, where we are found guilty of killing the planet. The wealthy, the oilmen, the politicians - they are crucified, and allowed to die of thirst in the scorching sun. Lucky bastards. They thought their money would protect them, but their money was worthless when the economy tanked, and so they and their children are the first to get nailed up. Lucky bastards, I say again. The rest of us old folk - we are forced to work, and live lives without computers or cars or electricity, which are things the young keep and ration carefully among themselves, while we old folk work nonstop to repay our “carbon debts”. We are fed Soylent Green of course, but it’s so hot we don’t have much appetite anyways.

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