Doyle Saylor wrote: > > > No matter what happens, failure to meet the demands in advance of > global warming these changes force everyone to face the challenge one > way or the other.
One way to face the challenge, probably one of the more common ways, would be, "Not in my lifetime" or "Not here." A yet more common way would be to say "the government really must do something about it." The period here is crucial. A third way would be to assume that nothing could be done about it and one should concentrate on more immediate questions of life. I doubt that global warming will ever be an incentive to active political organizing. It is too obviously something that can not be affected locally or even nationally. Capitalists cannot _NOT_ grow, nor can capitalism as a system. Probably the early stages of socialist transformation in a handful of nations could not effectively break this compulstion to grow on a world scale. Humanity (though probably not "civilization" as we know it) can survive, even flourish, under amazingly different conditions. Thought about the future is probably most profitably focused on how what we can do now will most contribute to reasonalbe survival and mild flourishing under conditions of extrme global warming. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
