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Today I went for a walk. It was Sunday, so I expected a lot of other people. The track followed a creek in a place where Aboriginal people used to live sustainably for thousands of years. But there weren't many other people. It was beautiful and quiet except for the birds and the fish jumping in the water. There were a lot of other people there. But all the others were near their cars, getting their motor boats into the water or driving jet skis. The car parks were full of cars with boat trailers. There were thousands of boats there.
This is what people think of as "recreation". They just burn up scarce oil all day for no good reason and get no physical exercise. They pretend there is no oil crisis.
But I
I just read that:
"world oil and gas reserves are as much as 80% less than predicted"  and
"400 gallons of oil equivalents are expended annually to feed each American" (not just the Americans) - see
Strong Current.
So these people are driving their boats so that their children will not be able to eat one day.
All this is happening in the middle of a most beautiful national park.
Why not just go for a walk? Keep fit and save the oil for a good purpose, like food production.

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