Climate change: historians will look back and ask 'why didn't they act?' #FT
Climate change: historians will look back and ask 'why didn't they act?' #FT
http://gu.com/p/3pgv4
I've been asking (myself) this question for the last several years.
I felt like I was 'late to it' (Climate Change, Resource Depletion, Ecological overshoot).
And yet actually, sadly I'm not. The oncoming disaster, which is becoming less possible to avoid as the years slip by, just isn't important to most people.
It's nowhere on the list of 'issues' our elections are fought over. It should be central to EVERYTHING we plan & do. But it isn't.
I think it never will be.
Perhaps it will be a great life (sustainable, hi-tec, more equal?) for one or two billion people (left) in a century or two's time. Maybe that's 'good enough'? Arguably a success for our species. Nature having dealt with our overreaching for us?
Perhaps people (like me?) who would prefer us to try and look ahead, plan & manage (to an extent) our species future need to let that go?
http://gu.com/p/3pgv4
http://gu.com/p/3pgv4
I've been asking (myself) this question for the last several years.
I felt like I was 'late to it' (Climate Change, Resource Depletion, Ecological overshoot).
And yet actually, sadly I'm not. The oncoming disaster, which is becoming less possible to avoid as the years slip by, just isn't important to most people.
It's nowhere on the list of 'issues' our elections are fought over. It should be central to EVERYTHING we plan & do. But it isn't.
I think it never will be.
Perhaps it will be a great life (sustainable, hi-tec, more equal?) for one or two billion people (left) in a century or two's time. Maybe that's 'good enough'? Arguably a success for our species. Nature having dealt with our overreaching for us?
Perhaps people (like me?) who would prefer us to try and look ahead, plan & manage (to an extent) our species future need to let that go?
http://gu.com/p/3pgv4
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