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=====Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People===== | |||
[https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/?fbclid=IwAR1415q23AGxp62Ss4NrE_xsXwBh3mVtWGw5TZVckxuDBzOJbh8_uLRAw80 The Tyee 9/18/2019] | |||
One thing the climate crisis underscores is that Homo sapiens are not primarily a rational species. When forced to make important decisions, particularly decisions affecting our economic security or socio-political status, primitive instinct and raw emotion tend to take the upper hand. | |||
This is not a good thing if the fate of society is at stake. Take “hope” for example. For good evolutionary reasons, humans naturally tend to be hopeful in times of stress. So gently comforting is this word, that some even endow their daughters with its name. But hope can be enervating, flat out debilitating, when it merges with mere wishful thinking — when we hope, for example, that technology alone can save us from climate change. | |||
=====Laissez-faire: the Environmental Version===== | =====Laissez-faire: the Environmental Version===== | ||
https://ecooptimism.com/?p=1200 | https://ecooptimism.com/?p=1200 | ||
The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, caught my eye: “Laissez-faire takes on a new meaning — it is the ecosystem, not the economy that must be “left alone” to manage itself and evolve by its own rules.” | The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, caught my eye: “Laissez-faire takes on a new meaning — it is the ecosystem, not the economy that must be “left alone” to manage itself and evolve by its own rules.” | ||
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Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
One thing the climate crisis underscores is that Homo sapiens are not primarily a rational species. When forced to make important decisions, particularly decisions affecting our economic security or socio-political status, primitive instinct and raw emotion tend to take the upper hand. This is not a good thing if the fate of society is at stake. Take “hope” for example. For good evolutionary reasons, humans naturally tend to be hopeful in times of stress. So gently comforting is this word, that some even endow their daughters with its name. But hope can be enervating, flat out debilitating, when it merges with mere wishful thinking — when we hope, for example, that technology alone can save us from climate change.
Laissez-faire: the Environmental Version
https://ecooptimism.com/?p=1200
The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, caught my eye: “Laissez-faire takes on a new meaning — it is the ecosystem, not the economy that must be “left alone” to manage itself and evolve by its own rules.”
