Stop Complaining and Do Something
John Cortez Turner
9/25/2012
English 104 Stop Complaining and DO SOMETHING!! You know, I sure am glad to live in a world where we’ve got super heroes like Superman, Batman and the Flash. Honestly, having them around makes life so easy, I barely have to do a thing for myself. Someone robbed me? Superman will catch the bad guy and return what was taken. Oil starts leaking into the sea? Not a problem with Aquaman or Aqualad! With these defenders of the depths, you can bet your barnacles that they won't sit by and allow oil to spill into our oceans. Stupid logging companies destroying our forests for the sake of something like money? Well, she may not be a hero but Poison Ivy will most certainly have none of that. Sure she might kill everyone involved with the logging company and attempt to create a utopian society for plant life, but hey, as long as someone gives a crap about the environment and it doesn’t cost us taxpayers anything, someone will do something about it without getting involved in politics right? Oh wait, NO! The world doesn’t work like that. We don’t have superheroes around to clean up after their or our messes and defend the world from all sorts of evil. The only things we can rely on are ourselves. If only the people of Montana could see the reality of that though. Writer Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed, spends an entire chapter of his book describing the struggles of Montana. This is done to illustrate the division of the state’s people and presumably how close we Americans are to a societal collapse ourselves. In order to show this, he describes the problems they face with issues like mining, government regulation, population growth and development and subdivision of agricultural land. Now Mr. Diamond might put on this façade of being completely indifferent while he sees and sides with both those nutty environmentalists and those cold hearted big businessmen, but I can see right through this
9/25/2012
English 104 Stop Complaining and DO SOMETHING!! You know, I sure am glad to live in a world where we’ve got super heroes like Superman, Batman and the Flash. Honestly, having them around makes life so easy, I barely have to do a thing for myself. Someone robbed me? Superman will catch the bad guy and return what was taken. Oil starts leaking into the sea? Not a problem with Aquaman or Aqualad! With these defenders of the depths, you can bet your barnacles that they won't sit by and allow oil to spill into our oceans. Stupid logging companies destroying our forests for the sake of something like money? Well, she may not be a hero but Poison Ivy will most certainly have none of that. Sure she might kill everyone involved with the logging company and attempt to create a utopian society for plant life, but hey, as long as someone gives a crap about the environment and it doesn’t cost us taxpayers anything, someone will do something about it without getting involved in politics right? Oh wait, NO! The world doesn’t work like that. We don’t have superheroes around to clean up after their or our messes and defend the world from all sorts of evil. The only things we can rely on are ourselves. If only the people of Montana could see the reality of that though. Writer Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed, spends an entire chapter of his book describing the struggles of Montana. This is done to illustrate the division of the state’s people and presumably how close we Americans are to a societal collapse ourselves. In order to show this, he describes the problems they face with issues like mining, government regulation, population growth and development and subdivision of agricultural land. Now Mr. Diamond might put on this façade of being completely indifferent while he sees and sides with both those nutty environmentalists and those cold hearted big businessmen, but I can see right through this