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just one corporate job to the next.

In 1975 Greenpeace launched

its anti-whaling campaign,

confronting whaling fleets on the high seas.

In June 2010, Greenpeace agreed

to a deal that would allow

nations like Japan to continue hunting

whales for commercial purposes.

The only measure in which

we'll be judged by those

come after is the health

of the land and

the health of the water,

the health of the Earth.

They're not going to give a

sh*t as to whether we recycled;

they're not going to give a sh*t

as to whether we wrote our legislators;

they're not going to give a

sh*t as to how hard we tried.

What they're going to

care about is

whether they can

breathe the air and drink the water,

whether the land will support them.

And they're not going to

care how hard we tried,

they're not going to

care about any of that --

what they're going to care about is...

...do we live on a living planet?

Figure III

OK, so...

...I don't know if you know this, but

the original draft of the

movie Star Wars was not

written by Lucas.

The original draft was

written by environmentalists

and it's a little bit different.

For one thing, it wasn't

actually called "Star Wars".

It was called "Star

Non-Violent Civil Disobedience".

But the plot of Star Wars, for those

of you who don't remember, is that

the Empire has created this

giant machine called the Death Star.

And it's a machine that's

capable of destroying entire planets.

In the movie the rebels find a

way to destroy the Death Star,

and then at the very

end, Luke Skywalker

uses the force to get past all the

tie fighters and to drop a torpedo

down a thermal exhaust port,

and to blow up the Death Star.

Once again, the first draft

of the movie written by

environmentalists was a bit

different:
the rebels

didn't actually blow up the

Death Star. Instead they used

other methods to slow the

intergalactic march of empire.

For example, they set up programs for

people on planets about to be destroyed,

to produce luxury items like hemp

hacky sacks and gourmet coffee

for sale to inhabitants of the Death Star.

Audience members will also

discover that there are plans afoot

to encourage loads of troopers

and other citizens of the empire

to take eco-tours of doomed planets.

The purpose will be to show to one and all

that these planets are economically important

to the Empire and so should not be destroyed.

In a surprise move that will get

viewers to the edges of their seats,

other groups of rebels will file

lawsuits against the Empire,

attempting to show that

the Environmental

Impact Statement that Darth Vader

was required to file, failed

to adequately support its decision

that blowing up this planet would

cause "no significant impact".

Viewers will thrill to learn

of plans to boycott items produced

by corporations that have Darth

Vader on the board of directors,

and they'll leap to their

feet in theaters worldwide

when they see bags full of letters

written directly to Mr. Vader himself

asking that he please not

blow up anymore planets.

Now, we all know that all

would be enough not only to

bring the Empire to its knees, but to

make a damn fine and exciting movie.

The thing is:
there's more.

Thousands of renegade rebels,

unhappy with what

they perceive as toadying on

the part of the mainstream rebels

decide, in a scene guaranteed

to bring tears to even the eyes

of the most cold-hearted

theatergoers, to stand on

the planets to be destroyed, link

arms, and sing "Give Peace a Chance."

They send DVDs of that

to Darth Vader and his

boss the Grand Moff Tarkin, to whom they

also send wave after wave of loving kindness.

A the few rebels sneak aboard

the Death Star and lock themselves

down to various pieces of

equipment. And stirring debates

are held onscreen as to

whether the rebels should

voluntarily surrender on approach

of the troopers, or whether

they should remain locked down to the end.

And in a brilliant and

brave touch of authenticity,

the rebels are never

able to come to consensus.

But there's more. Once inside the Death

Star, a splinter group breaks off,

they burn a couple of transporters,

and they etch "Galaxy Liberation Front".

And then another group breaks

off from that group and they

finally make it to Darth

Vader's private room. And when

they get there, they sneak up behind him

and then they hit

him with a vegan cream pie.

And the directors decided

to cut that because

it was way too close to

a scene in another movie they

were developing at the same time

called "The Plot to Pie Hitler".

As the Death Star looms directly

overhead, a few of the rebels

advocate picking up weapons to fight back.

And those rebels are

generally shouted down by

pacifist rebels who argue that attacking

those who run the Death

Star is "just another

example of the Empire's harmful philosophy

coming in by the back door."

"If we want to change

Darth Vader," they say,

"we must all first become

that change ourselves.

To change Darth Vader's heart,

we must first change our own.

We must, above all else,

have compassion for

Darth Vader, and remember that

he, too, was once a child."

So finally Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca,

and a couple of robots show up

and tell these others they've found a

way to blow up the whole Death Star.

And the rest of the rebels,

of course, are just horrified.

A scuffle breaks out between Leia,

Luke, Han, and Chewbacca and the two

robots on one side and the

pacifists on the other.

And the pacifists chase those four

from the room and from the film

which is not a big deal because

they are minor characters anyway.

But anyway, the way the

movie ends is that

the Death Star looms closer

and closer and then you see

the Death Star, and then

you see the planet,

and then you see the Death Star,

and then you see the planet,

and then you see the Death Star

and you see the laser start to glow

this hellish red, and

then you see the planet again,

and you see this little light --

and what that is: that's

the environmentalists

getting away before

the planet gets blown up.

And then you see the Death

Star again and then it

blows up the planet,

and then, the final

shot of the movie, which reveals

what complete triumph this was for the

rebels, is a still showing an

article on the lower left of

page 43 of the New Empire Times

that devotes a full 3 sentences

to the destruction of the planet.

So it's like, "Yeah we got some press!"

Premise IV

The culture as a whole and

most of its members

are insane.

The culture is driven by a death urge,

an urge to destroy life.

- The public really needs

to understand that no combination

of alternative miracle fuels,

or biodiesel, or ethanol,

or nuclear, or sun, or solar,

or used french fry potato oil,

no combination of these things is going to

allow us to keep a happy,

motoring society going.

- We are using up all the very

easily accessed energy sources:

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