If you've gotta start sometime, why not now?

85 months and counting takes into consideration the fundamental psychological aspects behind the lack of sustainability within today's world. It indicates and addresses the change in mentality that must take place in the minds' of the human race in order to effectively develop our planet and pull ourselves out of the grave we are burying ourselves in. 85 months and counting points out how the most economically developed nations within our society are playing the blame game, carbon laundering and not taking responsibility for their nonchalance. It was originally their responsibility to initiate the global aim to neutralize the world's carbon footprint and eradicate excessive greenhouse gas emission. The responsibility was placed in their hands, as the leading nations of our economy, to take the first step towards sustainability. However they failed miserably and passed the buck on to the less developed nations without the ability to initiate such a change; Brazil, India and China. The author of 85 months and counting really took into account the downfalls of human nature and recognized that when the buck was passed to these less developed nations, they had the ability to play the "Why should we, when you didn’t and still aren't?" card. American politicians are blaming our carbon issues on the overpopulation crisis within China, however the rest of the world including China, realise that the majority of carbon emissions per person actually come from the United States.


As pointed out by this blog, the very army that is dedicated to controlling the decline in oil supplies actually use up tremendous amounts of oil themselves, an on-going problem with a limited number of solutions, one solution being the use of alternative energy. However as stated by the blog regarding the US military's relationship with the control of oil supply, "It’s possibly the greatest energy inefficiency we have, not to mention the way that this military “oil protection racket” also removes the incentive for energy alternatives to develop." Furthermore, as stated by 85 months and counting, in 2007 the US spent over $17 billion dollars on fuel, $17 billion dollars being equivalent to 363,000 barrels of oil per day - clear evidence as to why the world is in ecological overdraft and unable to sustain the lives we (in particular those who lives in the States) live today. The evidence stated in this reflection highlights the urgent nature of our ecological issues, human greed and the human race's typical way of passing the blame and not taking responsibility. Since it is evident the human race are too greedy to sacrifice just a little (collaboratively) to help themselves in the long run, 85 days and counting suggest radical methods of countering this issue. A few may think that these solutions are bordering extreme, however taking into consideration human nature, extremity is needed to tackle is significant issue. Personally I believe that when the economic recession eventually fizzles out and the world returns to its relatively stable financial condition, a 100% tax must be imposed on the usage of oil hence encouraging society to turn to alternative energies since by then they will be cheaper. I feel that this is an effective solution although it is not realistic to explore under current circumstances. The world must first tackle its economic crises in order to use its finances and overcome its ecological issues.


http://www.neweconomics.org/programmes/climate-change