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humanity will survive only if we are rooted closely to the earth unbridled technology will lead to our demise our tools come from nature but we cannot let our tools poison the soil the neon screen that you are reading like the pages of man’s great canon of books grow from the ground precious conductive earth metals more valuable than gold mines when those are gone no more text messages or Twitter no more blogging or wind turbines we will return to primitive communication land lines, letters and talking i wonder how our grand kids will make the transition from rare earth metals and petroleum to whatever is next will they discover a revolutionary pearl of knowledge that we cannot yet imagine or will they relearn forgotten technologies and replant in their ancestors’ livelihoods or will we leave the land sapped and useless humanity will survive only if we are rooted closely to the earth we grow from the ground shine from the sun blow in the wind flow in the water originally posted to my blog https://sublimeobscenities.wordpress.com on 5/2/2014
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 2:04 PM UTC
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humanity will survive only if we are rooted closely to the earth unbridled technology will lead to our demise our tools come from nature but we cannot let our tools poison the soil the neon screen that you are reading like the pages of man’s great canon of books grow from the ground precious conductive earth metals more valuable than gold mines when those are gone no more text messages or Twitter no more blogging or wind turbines we will return to primitive communication land lines, letters and talking i wonder how our grand kids will make the transition from rare earth metals and petroleum to whatever is next will they discover a revolutionary pearl of knowledge that we cannot yet imagine or will they relearn forgotten technologies and replant in their ancestors’ livelihoods or will we leave the land sapped and useless humanity will survive only if we are rooted closely to the earth we grow from the ground shine from the sun blow in the wind flow in the water originally posted to my blog https://sublimeobscenities.wordpress.com on 5/2/2014
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 2:04 PM UTC
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