Let’s Prevent Life in a Post-Apocalyptic World
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A recent article from Worldchanging makes the simple (and what should be obvious) point that what they call “climate foresight” is becoming a necessary skill to pick up. I like this article because it sums up the point that 1) the source of global warming is no longer worth arguing about because it is happening either way, 2) we need to realize how this “scientific possibility” will affect us as humans, 3) we can choose to either do nothing about it or do what we can to keep things at a level of “neutrality” (not BETTER, but rather, keep things right where they are–if we act now), 4) we already have the knowledge and the ability to save the planet, we just need to DO it!
From Worldchanging’s article “Preparing For Life in a Warming World”:
Economic, environmental, social systems—all will be strained. Left unaddressed, climate change may prove to be the worst economic disaster in history, says the British Government. Climate change has already begun to wreak havoc in the natural world, and most experts expect it to become a major driver of ecological collapses while limiting our ability to respond effectively to environmental decline caused by other factors. Meanwhile, scientists have begun to refer to the people living in particularly vulnerable places as Environmental Refugees-To-Be, and some people believe we can expect to see 200 million people driven from their homes by the middle of the century. Already, insurance companies are recognizing that buying beachfront property is a bad idea.
As their mission statement says, the solutions already exist, humankind just needs to collaborate to ENACT them. This is exactly what I believe, and it is why I continue writing online every day! (You thought I was making money for this! Hah.) If you think that changing the direction we are going is important, then please join me in forming a community of concerned citizens. That is why this site exists: to bring people with a common interest in doing GOOD together to collaborate in a GRASSROOTS movement to create solutions to global problems, and to facilitate change. Remember, I am just learning too. I am here to share my experience learning about climate change, genocide, poverty, hunger, disease, and more, and about creative solutions to those problems—in other words: ways that we can do WORK, and live LIVES that MATTER.
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January 9th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Amen. As it goes, “You can curse the darkness, or you can light a candle” (or, maybe more fitting, switch on a LED lightbulb). We are an amazing species. We can see things in space at a distance of 11 million light years. We can see subatomic particles. But can we stop shitting in our own nest?
We all need to expand our consciousness. Stop cursing the darkness. Act locally. And, as i will try to do, keep learning and searching for meaning.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
GREAT (!) comment.
Stop cursing the darkness, switch on an LED bulb! LoL
Thank you for the comment.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Here’s a little tidbit from one of my professors: “Life is a non-renewable resource.” All forms of it. So lets reduce waste AND use of it (birth control education in developing countries could save human civilization as we know it)
