Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 17, 2020

You’re missing the cause and effect, Arlo. Altho it does expose how fragile it all is.

You got it, JJ!

Truth!

Oh don’t get me started. The federal reserve creating trillions out of thin air and using that money to buy up assets they have no business buying. Rass-a-frass-a…

What banks control the Federal reserve? It’s not the government.

“not going into debt”??when you are in quarantine for months and no income => debt.

Profound.

My thoughts go back to the three days following 9/11. No contrails. It was eerily quiet in the skies.

Yeah, let’s go back to life before the Sumerians.

Instead they’re looting and burning things down

With fewer chemtrails, the government has to look for other ways of mind control, so it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good…

The problems began the instant that Congress authorized deficit spending back in the early days of the country.

(senses a dramatic part of a serial (or storyline) here)

Fast food restaurants going entirely to take out/drive through. Businesses pushing all employees (if possible) to work from home. People leery to travel, affecting hotels/airlines/entertainment venues. Will these changes be permanent?

Catch the virus, get sick, die and you won’t worry about the other problems

First Law of Ecology: You cannot do one thing

Second Law of Ecology: Everything has a price

Third Law of Ecology: The Law of Unintended Consequences always applies.

Fourth Law of Ecology: Mother Nature is a spiteful bitch.

Jimmy, I give you a 10, 5⭐s, A+, and 4.0 on this rendering. Thank you SIR.

“deadly virus.” Give me a break. Yawn.

I was hoping for a continuation of yesterdays line. Requiring no heavy thinking and getting a good laugh.

Too many reaching for a piece of cakeToo many people pulled and pushed aroundToo many waiting for that lucky break

Too many people preaching practicesDon’t let them tell you what you wanna beToo many people holding backThis is crazy and baby, it’s not like me – J.P. McCartney, 1971

Could not have said it better myself.

Are we the virus? Is that the point?

Not buying tickets or renting cars – but burning up server farms consuming enough power to drive rolling blackouts in CA. Not staying in hotels – which still need to be maintained consuming resources. Not shopping in stores, but shopping on line – creating more waste in packaging and delivery – see take out food in the same category. Going into debt because enormous number of jobs have been lost with little warning. – No Arlo, the damage is still there. You just aren’t seeing it in jet contrails. Clearly Arlo you are one of the fortunate ones – as I have been – to have a job that has survived the pandemic, a home I can work safely from, and a family who has also been able to adapt. See beyond your own perspective.

Using politics, green new deal and everything posted here, is a gross over simplified way of blaming others for the problems we all must participate in the solving of. It started long before Trump, Obama or any other president.

We need to rethink how and why we do the things we do. Is this trip necessary? Do I really need to go into debt just to go on vacation? Is there a way to make my trip more environmentally friendly?

It’s the sign of the times, or lack there of…..

All the things Arlo is talking about in the second panel are parts of everyday life – it’s called living. We’re never going to fix climate change by shaming people who want to visit relatives on another continent or take a dream trip to experience another culture (especially when the Fed Ex, UPS, and Amazon fleets never stopped flying). We’re not going to compensate for the coal usage in China and India by celebrating the joblessness of people in the service industry in the West. If we are going to fix it, it will be the way we cured polio and landed people on the moon. It will be with carbon capture, a smart grid, better energy storage capability to make solar and wind reliable, and new technology for air travel.

Meanwhile, our economy is being destroyed.

Lot of homeless people staying in those hotel’s in some cities.

Yeah, a bad outbreak of humanity…

I have heard a lot of people talk of an environmental silver lining or blessing in disguise with the partial shutdown of the economy. Even though I wrote a book about saving the planet – I can’t use those terms. Too many people are out of work, in danger of losing their homes, and not getting enough food. I hope when we do get back to work – that we can’t start considering the environment.

This discussion became political. I live in Massachusetts; those luxury SUVs clogging 128, the McMansions in the suburbs, and the huge second homes on Cape Cod, the Islands and in the Berskshires, aren’t all owned by Republicans.

The environmental abuse is not limited to one party.

CHURCH!

Rampant consumerism IS the Economy, stupid.

Production for the sake of production is silly.

Consumption for the sake of consumption is silly.

The basis of measuring the shape of the economy is flawed.

We need better tools.

Think there are not a lot of flights? Check out how many planes are currently in the air. https://flightaware.com/live/

Arlo, you lost Janis at the jet contrails.

Yup.

So true, Jimmy. So true.

What about the fate of most movie theatres?