We insist that we have nothing to do with the weather and global climate change. I have a writer who e-mails me from from Canada [who was a wine expert] and constantly bombards me with the same stuff about our having little to nothing to do with climate change and if we did we can do nothing about it. That may even be true, however, banning the gases that destroy the ozone layer has helped lower the rise in skin cancer. The Reagan response was that making better sunscreen was good for the economy.
Traditional Indians pray for the Earth and her health. What would have happened if Milton Friedman had prayed for the health of the Earth every day? How about Ayn Rand? Or Ron Paul? A change of attitude maybe? I'm not sure who their correlatives are in Canada or England, etc. But I think it would do them, and the left, all good if they had to give an hour a day to create a ceremonial to think about the systems of the world and pray for the health of Grandmother Earth and her systems of balance. At the very least it would change the attitude. Currently Asia is the most proactive when it comes to believing in human systems and their abilities to design a better future. Japan may cast that in doubt. However humility does not preclude acting responsibly and considering that the problems of complexity are not external but in our own mind's inability to comprehend the whole of things and figure out a way to practice them to mastery. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:02 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Really bad stuff... And soon to arrive on our west coast D On 3/14/2011 5:48 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote: > Guardian Live Blog: > > 12.36pm: My colleague Luke Harding is live blogging from the Hamburg offices > of Der Spiegel as part of the Guardian's New Europe season, and reports > that the German news magazine has decided to pull its reporter out of Tokyo > because of the risk of a Chernobyl-style radiation cloud reaching the > Japanese capital. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
