Opiate Addiction
Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America
David T. Courtwright (Paperback) Harvard University Press 2001-05-31
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Since polar bears are living organisms with whom we share the planet, they are, or should be, much more important than our seemingly desperate need for personal high speed mobility.
Unfortunately, we humans are motivated more by greed than by thoughts of our fellow creatures. It's a sad fact but true.
However, on the plus side for the planet's remaining large animals, the way we are going we are driving full speed towards our own early extinction.
Burroughs#39; work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his ...
When America and Canada were first being settled , the people were encouraged to spread out . They did . Now the widely scattered homes , town , cities , businesses, etc becoma a major problem because of the distances- - and the fuel necessary to get to work , or to get produce to market .
The idea that some of our politicians have that if gas goes up high enough , people will stop using their cars , is nuts . Workers have to get to their place of employment no matter the cost . It's either work or loose everything .
Public transportation in great in compact cities . But we have millions of homes far out in the country , miles between them .There is no way that those millions of workers can use public transportation . They would have to walk miles to the pick-up and drop-off places , Just not possible or practical .
In a most cases , oil is not an addiction , it's the difference between life or starvation .
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Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America