Yesterday was my last day! I will no longer wax poetic about serving coffee too fifteen year olds with nose jobs and cranky rich people. Last night after work I went out for sake and sushi with one of the servers from my work, following that we went to see, "The Eleventh Hour". As much as I can see almost the entirety of the celebrity environmentalists as shallow and short sighted, the film was actually great. It didn't try to give people too much hope and what it did give was honest. It actually made me feel better than I have been about the state of the world.

That and I've been reading this book called The World without Us, which basically describes what would happen to the planet if every person on earth were to die tonight. The process which nature would take back cities, the geochemistry behind decomposition of synthesized materials, the continuing breakdown of plastics in our oceans, and what lasting artifacts we would leave behind and what plants and animals would take our place. This is one of the first popular works I've ever seen that actually makes the point that anthropogenic (people-caused) environmental change has an inertia to it. Nearly one hundred years from today we would still be causing minor reverberations in natural systems due to our activity following the industrial revolution. Even one thousand years from today there would be minor reverberations.

There will never be the sort of return to Eden, rocket to the moon, zero impact hydrogen panacea that many hope for but that's okay. The conversation today should focus around planning, mitigation, and personal responsibility. The last point here is the most important but also the most far-fetched. People are fucking lazy and they are happy being miserable as long as they maintain buying power to shop recreationally, wants become needs as long as your wants are accessible and people are selfish and lazy and that's okay. Despite the fact that attempts by movie stars to address shit like this bothers me, I enjoyed it. It tried to criticize consumerism, bravo 4-stars. Also Thom Hartman was in it, he was great.