Affluent, lazy American society

[Mari333]

Not everyone is, I know, but the oil dependency of this nation is horrific.
Go into your supermarket, check out all of the plastic. Everything is wrapped in plastic. Everything. If theres an item wrapped in paper, it probably is from trees, not an alternative source, like hemp, which makes great paper.
As long as we are this dependent on oil, and no one in leadership states "we must change our lifestyles to be less dependent on petrochemicals", we are doomed to be in oil wars, vicious ones with the world.
The US public is unaware of the devastation of peak oil, and unaware of the fact this whole war was about oil reserves for the US and Israel.
Bottom line, its going to be up to the people to change the way they live.
I can hang my clothes on the lines, I can take less showers and be fine. I can ask for my deli goods be wrapped in paper. I can walk instead of drive, I can bring my own bag to the store, I can buy used clothes instead of new clothes. I can eat less. I can cook outside on a fire. I can do a lot.
if people just choose to change their lifestyles, a lot could be accomplished. It could be touted as patriotic to be less dependent on ME oil.
Otherwise, neverending wars.