"Too busy sipping latte to save the rainforest"

We have become distracted.

We are all too busy watching Big Brother or

Celebrity This or That while the corporations

take the rainforest down, one tree at a time.

While the polluters carry on their merry way,

we are sipping our coffee, mulling over which

plasma to buy.

While Gordon Brown talks green, this

government is approving airports,

motorways and trying to wriggle out of

green energy targets.

Yup, we have become comfortably

numb to it.

The entertainment industry is keeping

the masses quiet.

Keeping us from thinking too much

about stuff.

It used to be opium for the masses, now

it’s reality TV.

Jeez, how did we get here?

We are all part of the problem.

We care. But we are just too busy to

say something.

The government, the corporations, the

polluters must just love us.

Protest about nothing.

Accept just about everything.

The Distracted Nation.

“Oh waiter, another latte please.”

(12,090 trees were cut down in the time it took to read this)

Fra Howies sommerkatalog 2008, men ikke noe mindre aktuelt i dag.