Can Two-Day Shipping Survive Climate Change?

3 thoughts on "Can Two-Day Shipping Survive Climate Change?"

1. Capitalism is a suicide pact. It is based on the false assumption that Nature, the ecosphere/atmosphere/biosphere within which we live, and upon which we rely for our very existence, is an ‘externality’… that Nature has value only when monetized.

   A forest has no value until it is turned into lumber…

   Clear rivers flowing unimpeded to the sea have no value… until dammed and, thus, monetized.

   There is no value in wetlands; they should be (how did Joni put it?) paved and converted to parking lots.

   There is no value whatsoever to a spectacular sunset (unless one can take pictures of it and start an online channel where it’s then possible to monetize images of Nature)

   One cannot tech one’s way out of a situation one tech’d oneself into.

   Einstein once said there were only two things that were infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. And he wasn’t so sure about the Universe…

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2. Feel free to share…

   I’m an Idiot
   (A parody based on Monty Python’s I’m a Lumberjack)

   Lead: I’m an idiot and that’s ok.
   I believe the lies media vomit out each day.

   Chorus: He’s an idiot and that’s ok
   He believes lies media vomit out each day.

   Lead: Let’s cut down trees. Let’s eat our lunch. Let’s go to the lavatory.
   Every day let’s go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.

   Chorus: We cut down trees. We eat our lunch.
   We go to the lavatory.
   Every day we’ll go shopping and have buttered scones with tea.

   We’re all idiots and that’s ok. We believe the lies media vomit out each day.

   Lead: I cut down trees, breathe wildfire smoke
   Bulldoze wild fields of flowers
   What bugs me most is watching
   Men dress up like me ma.

   Chorus: He cuts down trees, breathes wildfire smoke
   Bulldozes fields of flowers
   What bugs him most is watching
   Men dress up like his ma?…

   (As in the original, the Chorus fidgets and looks nervous, but resumes heartily on the refrain)

   We’re all idiots and that’s ok.
   We believe wha media vomiteaches up each day.

   Lead: I cut down trees, pollute the land, the oceans and the sky. I’m living large for right now. The rest of life can die.

   Chorus: He cuts down trees, pollutes the land, the ocean and the sky. He’s living large for right now. The rest of life can die…?

   (As in the original skit during this last bit the Chorus begins to breaks down, using questioning, agitated, raised voices but in this version turns and accosts the lead singer)

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3. Of course it can survive, what can't survive is price point.. Amazon already figured out that 1 or 2 day service is possible, but not with inexpensive items, and w liberal return policies. Not going to work

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