Here's a new thought: What is more important .. the increase in civilian deaths in jihadist warfare or the number of deaths being caused by climate change?
This comes from Papa Francesco's impatient sighs about the west's focus on trivialities like gays and women in the church, contraception, abortion and so on when grinding poverty, death by pollution and warfare, inability to negotiate/live in peace, AIDs and so on. The west is as children, not adults. The southern hemisphere really has a completely different take on What's Important. The tough question for us is: Just how important is climate change? Is it more important than warfare? I think about that, as a catholic/christian because I now live in the era of greatest martyrdom in the history of christianity. Ditto martyrdom amongst islam. So as much as I abhor the arrogant pollution of our planet, I have now started to think of the whole world's problems. And I can't say what is the most important, at this point. But I'm working on it! I'll take a page from Doug: I think AssHoles are the true problem. -- Owen On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you for this, Robert.**** > > ** ** > > It was just the sort of New Thought I was looking for. **** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > Nicholas S. Thompson**** > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** > > Clark University**** > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Robert > Holmes > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:07 AM > > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Landmark 2013 IPCC > Report: 95% Chance Most of Global Warming is Human-Caused | Weather > Underground**** > > ** ** > > Here's an interesting take on the issue. What do insurance companies think > about climate change?**** > > ** ** > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html > **** > > ** ** > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Owen, **** > > **** > > What do you think paleo guy would say after reading the new report? **** > > **** > > N**** > > **** > > Nicholas S. Thompson**** > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** > > Clark University**** > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > **** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Saul > Caganoff > *Sent:* Monday, September 30, 2013 7:08 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Landmark 2013 IPCC > Report: 95% Chance Most of Global Warming is Human-Caused | Weather > Underground**** > > **** > > Indeed. What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?* > *** > > **** > > http://blog.leyerle.com/2010/08/what-if-climate-change-is-big-hoax.html*** > * > > **** > > Saul**** > > **** > > On 1 October 2013 03:09, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > I met a paleoclimatologist at SFI years ago, and a couple of us discussed > global warming with him.**** > > **** > > He had a reasonable attitude: We are, paleologically speaking, at a cool > period of climate, and the science of global warming is pretty difficult > without experiments :) He went on to say, however, that prudence is a good > reason to stop polluting.**** > > **** > > **** > > -- Owen**** > > **** > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2535 ** > ** > > I would love it if we could discuss this in some sort of rational way this > Friday. **** > > **** > > N**** > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com**** > > **** > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com**** > > > > **** > > **** > > -- > Saul Caganoff > Enterprise IT Architect > Mobile: +61 410 430 809 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff **** > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com**** > > ** ** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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