OMG, you echo my thoughts completely. I was talking with somebody the other day about the growing denial among some on the left about climate collapse and he said he felt it was grounded in a kind of "Oh, my God, maybe I might have to make big changes in my life! Maybe not fly off to Cancun every winter or maybe my Tesla is just an irrelevant virtue signal."
I think he's right. We need to teach our kids skills and trades and get the hell away from the big cities/ Time is short.
The folks with the best chance of surviving are those whose lives will be the least changed by the collapse, beginning with the 'uncontacted,' who don't even use words like comfort/discomfort. They simply live 'within their means,' in cooperation with their immediate surroundings. From there, there is a line of progressively contaminated groups, ours being the most toxic of all.
No worries! Mother Earth is on the case, and the most adaptable among us will have a chance to survive and carry on. We really shouldn't shame those who can't face that ultimate 'inconvenient truth.' With my almost total lack of 'survival skills,' I wouldn't last long in a non-industrial world. I just think it would be a much healthier existence, the way we were supposed to live.
The planet has some 2 million years before the expanding sun fries everything, so there's plenty of time for a whole new species to emerge. Hopefully, they might be wiser and kinder.
Yeah, we get so entangled in our own morality/mortality that we tend to forget the larger reality. Personally, I think wiser would necessarily mean kinder.
OMG, you echo my thoughts completely. I was talking with somebody the other day about the growing denial among some on the left about climate collapse and he said he felt it was grounded in a kind of "Oh, my God, maybe I might have to make big changes in my life! Maybe not fly off to Cancun every winter or maybe my Tesla is just an irrelevant virtue signal."
I think he's right. We need to teach our kids skills and trades and get the hell away from the big cities/ Time is short.
The folks with the best chance of surviving are those whose lives will be the least changed by the collapse, beginning with the 'uncontacted,' who don't even use words like comfort/discomfort. They simply live 'within their means,' in cooperation with their immediate surroundings. From there, there is a line of progressively contaminated groups, ours being the most toxic of all.
Agreed. There is a steep learning curve approaching that very, very few want to look at.
No worries! Mother Earth is on the case, and the most adaptable among us will have a chance to survive and carry on. We really shouldn't shame those who can't face that ultimate 'inconvenient truth.' With my almost total lack of 'survival skills,' I wouldn't last long in a non-industrial world. I just think it would be a much healthier existence, the way we were supposed to live.
The planet has some 2 million years before the expanding sun fries everything, so there's plenty of time for a whole new species to emerge. Hopefully, they might be wiser and kinder.
Yeah, we get so entangled in our own morality/mortality that we tend to forget the larger reality. Personally, I think wiser would necessarily mean kinder.
Yes!