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catbirdsings's avatar

Regarding letting their language into my writing, yes. Sorry about that. Let me say something else.

"Climate change" from C02 is the least of our worries. Let's try insect apocalypse, spreading nasty persistent poisons everywhere, scraping the precious living skin from our mother earth to such a degree that our other-than-human companions on this journey called life have nowhere to live (and this even includes the bottoms of the oceans), allowing ourselves to be mass poisoned with hubristic or just plain old insane mind viruses like the illusion that control will solve our problems, forgetting our original instructions as humans to simply be thankful (see the Haudenosaunee [Iroquois to some of you)]Thanksgiving address), somehow coming to believe that we are separate and must preserve our individual life forever and at all costs. Look at what those mind viruses led our "leaders" to do over the past 3 years.

What hubris it is to just think that we can strand more-or-less our entire infrastructure and we will somehow manage to find the energy and materials to rebuild it all "green" (note the cranes in those crazy earth dome structures in the photo above), or that even if we can find them, the embodied energy in all of that rebuilding won't outweigh many, many decades of benefits, or that we'll power all of the rebuilding with wind and solar. But the biggest hubris of all is to stuff everything I mentioned above into that single category of "climate change" and to think we can simply keep on this technological escape path from our earthiness forever even if some of us at the top manage to reduce population through destructive deceit and trickery - and without causing this fragile project of civilization to come crashing down.

The answers are hidden in the paragraph above, remember and learn to love our earthiness, our humility, rediscover gratitude, rediscover each other, understand we are small and have our bodies for an unknown amount of time (and that's OK) and that our primary responsibility is to the future humans and other lifeforms. By orienting ourselves in those directions, we find purpose and fulfillment and joy today. At the same time, we can be comforted in knowing that something in us is here forever because we are not separate from the whole as we believe when we fall into the control mindset.

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Abhijit Bakshi's avatar

A propos, I have found it completely impossible to get allegedly intelligent human beings to acknowledge that it might be a bad idea to strip mine away the surface of the planet to recover fractions of what was destroyed in lithium so that muh climate can be "saved" by ensuring that all electricity ever generated must pass through lithium-based battery cells.

They're like "yeah, but we need to save muh climate".

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Robert Dyson's avatar

I agree totally. The fantasy of 2050. Sadly (or happily) I will not be here by then but I suspect things will not be much different from now, a few more wars over resources, same super rich and super poor and a degraded environment.

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DogsLife's avatar

Coming soon - everything you explained so well will be considered verboten.

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