The Sound Green

Prompt 1: I know that simply because we are in this class means that we are all now, and always have been, die hard environmentalists. The fact that we are at UW means that we are all open-minded liberals, boiling with hatred for all the right wing morons that we hear about MSNBC (but rarely ever meet personally). Im sure that everyone is super pissed that Obama is opening drilling in Alaskan and Atlantic waters, and that we are not all zooming around in electric cars in our politically homogonous city, but in case you forgot, America still runs on oil and will for quite a while longer. It is not very difficult to imagine Hiskes’ clean, pedestrian friendly, high speed train city, but all you have to do is look around you to realize that there is a lot of work to be done before we get to that point. Our progressive eco friendly city was built with oil and continues to be built with oil. The free trade coffee you are drinking right now would still be in Central America without oil. Things don’t change in an instant just because there is some new cat running things. Not everyone in this country is an atheist living in Seattle with a compostable toilet. We still need oil, and we need oil to get to a point where we can stop using oil.