CJ Kucera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then
>when all the killing is done and a somewhat weary nation comes
>back home to an economic slump, what's there to do but buy more
>STUFF and CONSUME and continue the destruction of the biosphere,
>because who has the energy to spend on the Earth then?
>
>Dr. Brin's "Earth" said it fairly well (apologies for the
>paraphrase): Hungry people don't become environmentalists.
An interesting conundrum there. Only the people who have the money to be
unrestrained consumers have the luxury of environmentalism.
>Even World War II didn't free us from the chains of ethnic
>discrimination. Take a look at the existence of Neo-Nazism.
>We need to SOLVE our problems, not just melt them into the
>ground.
I'm finally reading Benford & Brin's "Heart of the Comet" right now and am
continually stunned at the dismal portrayal of tolerance and cooperation
contained therein. But I suppose it's a realistic assessment of how thin a
veneer of civlization we really have.
Joshua
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