Hooking Up Isn't Green

I've been trying to understand the phenomena of hooking up.
I'm not judging the kind of extreme sexuality that so many young people seem to be into - but, after all, I am a psychoanalyst. I'm wondering what it means.
One thought: Are young people reflecting back to us everything we have taught them? Isn't hooking up an awful lot like the types of things we do - like use something and then throw it away - in a consumer driven economy? And isn't this wasteful materialism also a player in environmental degradation and global warming?
If people are raised with belief systems that prioritize the avaracious fulfillment of desire, disposability, and excess it should be no surprise that people communicate this by hooking up - a sexuality based on people making mutual and often relatively anonymous use of each other. Human contact becomes relegated to "getting off."
That's how we feel about the earth. We get off on it - making use of it to satisfy our pleasure, with very little thought given to the relationship we have to this planet that makes our life possible.

On Peoples' Minds:
"I don't mind sleeping with someone I don't know, but I'm not going to sit down at a dinner table and talk to someone I've never met."--A 23-year-old professional female

"I feel like I'm the wierdest guy around . . . I don't want to have sex unless it's meaningful and everyone else is hooking-up and I'm the idiot in the corner who just doesn't want to, who wants something more than instant get-me-off sexuality."--A 27-year-old lawyer.

"To put it another way, we have radically transformed the fundamental relationship between humankind and the earth . . . this is due to a combination of factors . . .(including) our bizarre focus on short-term thinking and instant gratification . . ."--Al Gore.

In the news:
Britney Spears. She exemplifies the ultimate partygoing hooking up celeb. Alot of people have made lots of money off of this very young woman. There's alot of talk now about her having a mental illness. Yea, I guess. But I think she may be enacting a piece of our culture. She has become the ultimate expression of what lots of young people are doing. It is easier to think of her now as a patient rather than recognizing in her our own collective relationship to disposability, wasted resources, and excess. I think that everybody who has ever made money from her owes her an apology.

Psychological and ecological sustainability tip of the day:
Create green relationships. Treat other people with respect. Value them as precious resources. Go on a date and talk to someone. Make love like you mean it. Think of skin as the fragile boundary that holds people together, and touch it with care. Then treat the earth's skin in a similar manner. Touch it with care.