Everyday, whenever I hear the hum of a combustion engine. It’s the sound a group of people make when they’re indirectly killing someone; however, as of yet that person likely isn’t known to them and the death happens maybe in a few years so they can easily ignore these facts and continue to pretend that they are a good person.

The most prudent passage for me is the lyrics of the poem spoken in God Speed You! Black Emperor’s song Dead Flag Blues:

We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

What scares me is a humans ability to ignore things. To continue to behave in such a way, to maintain a lifestyle, that is excessively detrimental to themselves and everyone and everything they have ever known and loved and will come to know and love.

They can easily come up with excuses for their actions, exactly like an addict, and just like an addict you can’t use logic with them. I am sure there are people reading this, if they got this far, that are thinking up thousands of excuses and reasons for why they continue to burn fossil fuel for their own convenience. How to dismiss this somehow, with an angry reply or whatever else. As if the chemical waste they themselves released into the atmosphere doesn’t count, as if it somehow did not contribute to the catastrophic biosphere collapse that has already killed millions of people. Hundreds of millions. As if they can be forgiven for that small transgression. As if by being part of the group they can avoid blame for the groups actions and it’s consequences.

They simply can’t give a shit, because they’re good people.