We need more than just world leadership to get through, but is a start. At this late stage of the game when the human ecological footprint got so large, the energy and food consumption so out of control, we are on a race to the bottom. The US wants oil, the Chinese want oil, the Indians want oil, the Indonesians want oil, every freeking man and his dog wants oil. As the joke goes, "nobody gets out here alive".
Have a nice day. Mario Alerce Software David Guest wrote: > Greg Twyford wrote: >> David Guest wrote: >>> I have asked some experts but Tony L says I should consult the wisdom >>> of crowds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds). >> >> Surowiecki and Tony obviously haven't read Jared Diamond's book >> 'Collapse'. >> >> He clearly argues argues that many societies have collapsed simply >> because they couldn't make collective decisions to change how they did >> business in the face of environmental and other changes. Sounds >> ominously familiar, doesn't it, as I'm sure Tim Flannery would agree. >> >> 'Clean coal' the new snake oil? What it doesn't emit CO2 when burnt? >> >> Diamond has some telling examples of societies that survived, such as >> Tikopea, because they had a leader who took the hard decision to kill >> all their pigs that were ravaging their tiny environment. > Perhaps the wisdom of the crowd was that they didn't kill him. > > Surowiecki does say you do need an informed crowd with the ability and > right to say what they think. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
