[aldente]

For those of you who are not familiar with Energybulletin here an excerpt: link
Whoever skimms though the press and selects those articles does an incredible job.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Kind of makes you wish they had stayed in the Miocene treetops, huh?

[TrueKaiser]

just like the matrix. only we didn't know at the time we swallowed the pill for knowledge and not bliss.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Wouldn't it be great just hopping around in the trees eating berries and bugs? I'm so forlorne I don't know which way to turn.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut the grinning primates are greedy and shortsighted. They're driven by ancient desires of status manifested as modern profit margins. They're compelled by vestigial urges they cannot control and barely recognize to bolster their rank in the troop hierarchy, attract the most desirable mates, and intimidate their peers with artifacts of power and prestige.
They're riddled with dangerously hostile evolutionary baggage transformed by technology into devastatingly effective predatory behavior. No other species on the planet is safe from the talking chimpanzee; the only thing they have to fear is each other and their own nature. So they power their war machines on the very black gold they defend with their oil burning tanks and bombers. It's a vicious, fatal, and unsustainable, cycle.