The Delusion Revolution

Here is a thought-provoking article that expresses some of the frustration that I feel with our society's unwillingness to take crises, especially global climate change, seriously. It is best exemplified in this excerpt:

Imagine that you are riding comfortably on a sleek train. You look out the window and see that not too far ahead the tracks end abruptly and that the train will derail if it continues moving ahead. You suggest that the train stop immediately and that the passengers go forward on foot. This will require a major shift in everyone's way of traveling, of course, but it appears to you to be the only realistic option; to continue barreling forward is to court catastrophic consequences. But when you propose this course of action, others who have grown comfortable riding on the train say, "Well, we like the train, and arguing that we should get off is not realistic."

The article goes on to describe how our society is barreling down the wrong track, and how we very well might not fully appreciate the scale and immediacy of the coming train wreck until the point of impact, or seconds before. Basically it doesn't paint an optimistic picture, but I believe it paints a realistic one. I think it is well-worth a read. And as an added bonus it contains a bit of a feminist critique again pornography. Check it out:

The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial
by Robert Jensen, AlterNet

Also check out this article on our over-medicated society.