Foxes and Dragons

I was just reading more on alternative energy. Wind and solar look the most promising with the least unintentional side effects, but they'd have to be supplemented...

But it got me thinking. With all of this frontal lobe in our brains that supposedly differentiates us from animals and leads to consciousness, we can't seem to get out of the mindset of burning stuff. One of the first technological advances our species made, being able to start a fire for personal use, and yet thousands of years later we are still burning stuff.

We use glorified campfires to fuel our personal vehicles and to power our lights. And we don't just burn anything, but stuff we dig out of the ground that took longer than we have been sentient for the earth to make. When engineers built coal burning power plants 100 years ago they would never have conceived that we'd still be using them today because it is more 'cost efficient' than coming up with new, cleaner, energy efficient ideas.

We then use that power to make things that we later throw away and wait for it....burn. Actually landfills are more utilized than incinerators, but you get my point.

I don't see why we don't just give all the dogs matches and absolve ourselves from existing on this planet at all.