Jeff:
>The battle here is with our perception of happiness and
>awareness of what sustainable habitat might be like. This
>same battle is a major issue in our culture today. In fact,
>many activists writings now identify "culture" as our biggest
>barrier to solving environmental problems. Culture is all the
>belief systems, traditions, economic thought, and stories
>that mould our behavior. Two other factors we need to
>add in are: testosterone and motherhood.
I ain't even gonna step into that motherhood quagmire. Nor, to your credit,
did you.
Suffice to say that motherhood and testosterone impulses are why we have
survived, so only a fool would knock them.
Not surprised that activists are calling human culture the biggest
environmental problem. We use more than we need and getting us to change
that habit is simply not going to happen until the pain level rises much
higher. We are a successful species. Whether we or our environment will
prevail is still to play out. I've nearly concluded that we and it are
incompatible.
"It's better to go out burnished from use than rusty from principle."
- Garrison Keillor, in a Prairie Home Companion show.
