From: Hyman Blumenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>What are our brains there for? Why the assumption that we must all sit
>like logs and let Nature takes its natural course? With our brains,
>without the totally obsolete concept of Cost, or any other Doctrinaire
>Economic shibboleth, with all our physical talents and technological
>prowess, can we not use our brains and machinery to reestablish the
>fertility of the soil world wide, poste haste? What is the obstacle to
>such a course of action, except by rote stupidity force fed into all our
>minds?
IMHO, it's mostly a problem of psychological denial -- with a healthy dose
of vested interest to lock it in place. [ Take a look at
http://dieoff.com/page15.htm for Catton's NEW ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDINGS ]
The first step would be for people to admit the problems real (even some
members of this list won't). The second step would be to admit that the
consumer society must now end.
If we could overcome denial, we might have a chance. But I see it as the
"alcoholic" syndrome: the alcoholic can't overcome denial until he is lying
in the gutter drowning in his own puke. Of course, by then it will be too
late for us (e.g., it takes ~3000 to 12,000 years to develop sufficient
soil to form productive land).
Jay
