paul bain martin lives in a different world than most, where he sees disparity, overshoot, and drawdown of the natural resource base as serious challenges to a dynamic homestatic symbioses (‘nature”) conducive to quality life for Homo sapiens. He aches for a time in the few years left in his life-time in which there will be a concerted and significantly substantial effort of family and friends … and a critical mass of others … who might work in solidarity to truly address these challenges on our increasingly uninhabitable Eaarth and to quit so much farting around with, e.g.:
- Black Fridays … and purchasing Christmas & birthday gifts,
- materialism and consumerism, and
- dollars ($) rather than energetics within a
- technological fix,
- transnational corporation market,
- neoliberal capitalistic
- world of rampant artificialization.
He yearns for: an ethic of … reciprocity (a holistic & profound abiding by the Golden Rule) & “Less Is More”; open borders and a true caring & sharing with others including other species; Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology, pacifism, PEACEmakers. Games We Play (kite.pub)
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Amitav Ghosh is of like mind and expresses this in his “illuminating new book, ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’ … .” Our Planet Is Heating Up. Why Are Climate Politics Still Frozen? | The New Yorker
From the New Yorker review of Ghosh’s fascinating, enlightening, and alarming (wake-up call) new book …
“Given that the heedlessness of the global marketplace got us into the climate crisis, you might be skeptical that more of the same will get us out of it. But many governments have adopted a hair-of-the-dog approach, embracing market-based solutions such as emissions trading and carbon taxes. The results have been discouraging: global emissions have been rising quickly, and we’ve fallen short on nearly every indicator of climate progress. (The aim has been to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 or two degrees Celsius, in the hope of avoiding the most catastrophic scenarios of climate change.) Although market-based approaches can yield incremental improvement, there’s little evidence that they can produce the ‘transformational’ change that U.N. scientists say is necessary.”
“Although market-based approaches can yield incremental improvement, there’s little evidence that they can produce the “transformational” change that U.N. scientists say is necessary.”
“These victories aren’t on the scale of the challenges we face, and the political proposals may feel airily idealistic—more of a wish list than a to-do list. Still, getting serious about climate change” … “means aiming higher than defeatist ‘realism.’ Climate catastrophe isn’t going to be averted simply by our changing the way we think about the planet and its peoples—but it’s likely to arrive sooner if we don’t.”
pbm
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