Monday, January 29, 2007
a modest proposal for a doomed planet
Ang sabaw ko na... wahaha! Be aware that I am not serious about what I am writing. I am somehow following the style of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
The world is doomed. Look around you, and see the degradation of our surroundings. Global warming is taking its toll on the environment. The climate is changing at a faster pace. Things that were once improbable is now happening. It is now normal for a country to experience 3 or more terribly devastating typhoons in one year. The scenario of Day After Tomorrow, though exaggerated, is not far away.
Ecosystems in the ocean are at the brink of disaster. Mankind's growing population, along with the appetite of its people is contributing to this disaster. By 2048, seafood as we know it will be gone.
Our world is in a sad fate. The future generation will have to endure a more polluted and doomed place. Therefore, so as not to contribute to the increasing doomness of the planet, I propose that people should not procreate! Let the human race die. Let no child suffer the coming end of this world. The planet is doomed anyway, why agonize these children? To show my sincerity, I will lead by example! I will take a vow of chastity and I will cease to be a burden to the entire world. I am appealing to everyone to do the same! Do not marry! Do not reproduce!
It is only us that will enjoy the resources of this planet! Forget the future generation because there will be NO future generation. Do you understand my plan? It is brilliant! This is a better solution rather than worrying about what will happen to the planet. We no longer have to conserve energy because only our generation will have all the energy. Cut down the trees! Do not recycle! Use fossil fuel for your cars! Kill all those endangered species! With my plan, we will exponentially increase the planet's rate of killing itself. But we will all die first before the planet is entirely destroyed! And what will be left is a desolate planet. Yet who cares? No one is left to worry about it. No one is left to care for Earth.
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ange...i simply do not know how to describe you...
ReplyDeletewhy? i'm still angeli! :P
ReplyDeleteyeah...pero you're morbid at the same time not morbid...and when you write, i wouldn't know that it's you unless i look at the name...hahaha...the topic, very you. the way it's written? no...
ReplyDeleteMay I just say that you have one hell of a plan, Angeli! It's by far the most unique of all the cliche plans about saving the earth that I hear all the time. Way to go! Nyahaha!
ReplyDeletethank you, Derrick. I will be the dictator... I mean leader of this Utopian society. hehe
ReplyDeleteAnd all your minions... este members will be ever willing to follow you. haha. To world domination!!!
ReplyDeletederrick, i find you quite disturbing in your replies to ange's posts...seriously...hahaha
ReplyDeleteOT: i would like to congratulate Derrick for winning a limited edition National Bookstore umbrella :D
ReplyDeleteyeaa!! and the main point of the constitution of thst Utopian society: Amores Perros!!! haha.. LOL
ReplyDeleteangeli buang... pero kamao ka murag in-ani baya akong line of thought ganiha while nag mock battle mi bout global warming.. humor round man.. haha!! igsu jud ta... :P
ReplyDeletedyl: aside from being your igsu, i am also your distant cousin... craziness is in the blood after all :P
ReplyDeleteI will take a vow of chastity --> crazy girl! hahaahaha
ReplyDeletei don't see anything wrong with my proposal. hehe :P
ReplyDeleteahh...the product of regretting not choosing ES as your nat sci (traydor)...though really, whoever said that ES is an easy A lied :p
ReplyDeletekristine: i don't regret not choosing ES :P
ReplyDeleteI can't help but comment on such a morbid proposal. Although you have safely hidden behind a disclaimer that you are not serious about what you said, I can sense a troubled soul behind the veneer.
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine how a world that has abandoned procreation would turn out utopian. On the contrary anarchy would reign supreme. Unless the civilization that adopts such a prescription has advanced to a state where it has totally halted the advance of aging and has totally relegated critical tasks to robots and androids, the absence of youth and the next generation would mean that everything organized in society breaks down. Who will man the hospitals? Who will maintain peace and order? Who will fix our cars? Who will maintain roads? Who will invent the next miracle drugs to keep us healthy? Aren't these the jobs filled in by young and dynamic people? Life is a never ending cycle of beginnings and ends. Where some exit, some take their place. Do not be deceived by the false assumption that the world is a static place, that a simple solution as stopping procreation will unravel into a simple result. Life is far more complex and sacred than that.
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