> Trusting investors in a free market guided by maximum profit to
> make all
> the important design decisions for mankind's permanent occupation
> of the
> earth isn't working right. There's really no softer way to say it
> that's truthful. I'm still waiting for truthful observations and
> useful
> knowledge to become relevant in politics. Perhaps the old Missouri
> mule solution is more appropriate, since the real world seems to be
> getting too complicated and putting people to sleep.
>
I agree completely.
I really don't think that many countries (especially those depending
strongly on spoiling the planet for their economy) will do the
necessary changes to stop global warming until it is "too late". By
too late I mean when victims will start falling (well, you could
count Katrina already here...). What I mean, we already see lots of
effects of global warming, but there's little change in the way we
spoil the planet. But finally, when our cities are all flooded, the
people left will adapt... It would be great, as you say, if we could
come up with mechanisms to change the decisions before it's too late,
but we humans tend to learn by spoiling. We need to burn our hand to
learn to keep it away from the fire. I mean, how many wars and
millions of lifes it took to have the UN. And not that it prevents
all wars... So maybe after doomsday (tomorrow? it's 06.06.06... the
day of the beast...), we'll do something about it...
Best regards,
Carlos Gershenson...
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
“Tendencies tend to change...”
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