Why are we so afraid of change?

I keep having this feeling when I am listening to the news that is very hard to describe.
It is deep down inside and difficult to explain, but I feel like shouting something is wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

When I hear the spin that is being put on reducing restictions on drilling for more oil and gas, so that we can reduce the price at the pump, it is like a great diversion from the real issue, and that is we need to change the way we are consuming things.

I have thought about these issues for many years and I suppose that it comes down to one simple concept.

And that is waste is not good. By definition it is not a good thing. It's bad!

I don't mind people/corporations being successful, or making money but for crying out loud, when we have gotten to the point where a box store can walk away from a 10 year old store to build a bigger version less than five miles away, that is wrong.

Or why are there even such a thing as a Hummer?

Or perhaps a better question is a not working Hummer?

It the most simple terms this behavior and these trends are just wasteful.

And you don't have to be a anything but honest to see this.

But for whatever reasons, this society for all it's greatness and potential, is consumed to a large degree with with rationalizing this behavior.

About the best I can come up with is the fear of changing.