What would an ethical and rational critical thinker and decision-maker expect?
Two hundred thousand years of living in dynamic homeostatic symbioses
through a light ecological footprint..
Then from one million in 8000 BCE to one billion in 1800 to eight to ten billion!
Daily consumption by some of these humans rising
from 20,000 kilocalories to 200,000 plus!!
Artificialized “symbioses”, battered “nature”;
most of the Earth now already Eaarth*!!!
YES! We’ll have more plagues, erosion, droughts, desertification, hurricanes, flooding, pollution,
disparity, famine, stress, abuse with synthetic chemicals and of the relatively powerless, Wars …
YES!!! More plagues.
This is the legacy we’re leaving the next generations.
What else would an ethical and rational critical thinker and decision-maker expect?
Unless we make some difficult systematic systemic changes.
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Ross Douthat …
I did listen to your Catholic Conservative-educated decadent words
this weekend on C-SPAN** …
Yes. Ecological literacy and values are a tremendous challenge
and Eden is an impossibility.
Nevertheless Ross, listen to the PositivelyEthicalAppliedCommunityEcology-makers.
Listen to Wendell, Wes, E.O., Herman, the Davids, Helmut, and Vaclav***.
Homo sapiens has over shot;
We are drawing down on topsoil, quality water, biodiversity,
and daily solar photosynthate and the net primary productivity …
We (in)human(e) beings
are rapidly changing
a favorable Earthly climate/ambience
and serious challenging homeostatic symbioses
on which quality human life depends.
We MUST learn … and lighten our collective ecological footprint.
We gotta have True Hope and not overdo your Catholic praying
and mea culpas and gratia agos to the Divine (including Donald John Trumps).
We’ve gotta take Real and True well-planned ethical action
through ecological knowledge and critical thinking and decision-making.
(Moreover, technological fixes won’t cut it!)
Or else …
What should an ethical and rational critical thinker and decision maker expect?
pbm
[ 7 S’s / VV->^^ ]
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*From Bill McKibben, but for me the extra “a” is for agrilogistics and artificialization in the Anthropocene. http://billmckibben.com/eaarth/eaarthbook.html
** https://www.c-span.org/video/?469651-1/the-decadent-society
***Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, E.O. Wilson, Herman Daly, David Orr, David Pimentel, Helmut Haberl, Vaclav Smil.
