Signs in hotels, little placards, admonish us to do our part for the environment by conserving water. If we hang up our towels it will signify that we are a good citizen and then the maids will not wash them, thus saving water and energy. Does anyone believe that the hotels have established this program out of true concern for the environment? When hotels spring up left and right, displacing woodlands and pasture with their concrete parking lots and shoddy constructed buildings? No, I think it is advantageous to the hotels to not wash as much laundry and they are more concerned with conserving their own financial resources as opposed to the planetary resources. Yet still it is a good thing in a small way.
However these small illusions are not enough to stave off the disaster looming in mankind’s future. There is a biological law of all living things. When rabbits become too numerous, thus comes the wolves, or disease, or slow starvation as they exhaust the food supply. Human beings have yet to achieve such a technological superiority that we shall be able to avoid the consequences of that biological law. Oh, mankind will survive it, but a new society will be formed. Ragged survivors in small communities, existing but not thriving. Fortified encampments on the banks of mighty rivers where once there was commerce but now there is only small boats fishing. Empty and desolate highways where slowly expanding ditches reclaim the broken blacktop with sod and weeds.
