Virtually all Westerners use quite a lot of fossil fuel each year, and whether we like it or not, there are consequences for obtaining it, both environmental and human-rights-related. It is easy to try not to think about it, but, thanks to this latest green-awareness revolution, people are being reminded throughout the multimedia world that we are needlessly wasteful of oil, natural gas and energy in general. We can use less, we just don’t feel like it, mostly. Well, water supplies and our air are being polluted, mountaintops are being blasted away, and human conflicts have arisen because of the competition for natural resources and fuel that currently defines our world. And, more often than not, the poor people unlucky enough to live somewhere with these treasures, are displaced and do not get a share of the wealth.

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Many of zeitgeistland’s blog articles focus on environmental issues in the US, but of course there are many dire situations all across the globe, and they need publicity as well. In this case, it is difficult to believe that people would be so abusive to a lake that is both a very important water supply and food resource, and yet, it has happened. This is certainly one example of how globalization has had a deleterious effect on the environment, and we consumerists in the West have played our role in this unfolding environmental disaster.

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