SUVs and Cowboys Hats

Every generation contributes to this world in its own different way. With the industrial revolution, pollution was terrible. Gradually people realized what they were doing and began to change their ways a bit. The steps taken to eliminate the exhaust from during the early 70’s helped and demonstrated that we are not as horrible for the world as we had been.
Granted changes are due, and people are still doing horrible things to the environment, but I think people in our current day are getting a bad rap. I mean, we got hybrids next to our fuel eating SUV’s, and we got our lovely resource overindulging airplanes, and our lovely oil heated homes, but we need all these things, right? Right? I mean, we’re Americans.
I don’t go two minutes driving without seeing a goddamn SUV or a truck. Generally these five or seven passenger vehicles are containing only one person. The respected businessman sitting high above the little cars; he’s important, he can afford the gas he’s burning away and doesn’t think twice about the environment he’s killing. Not to mention all the car accidents involving SUVs and cars. In most cases both passengers get hurt or killed. The SUV is something like 5% safer for the driver of it and like 40% more fatal for the car in which they run down. I consider myself part of the environment, so I am offended as an environmentalist as well as by the death threat every time I go driving.
It’s our damn pride that we must work on omitting, because we are ridiculous. Bigger, better, faster, all phrases we hear in commercials to buy their products. We need to drop our insecurities and all get hybrids and/or use public transportation more.