Truth", great meeting you at the book signing...You are wrong not in
the direction or the degree of your argument, but in it's intended
function, changing human behavior.
On 60 Minutes, you suggest, and I paraphrase: "People can change, it
is not hopeless".
However, if everyone, tomorrow, did everything you suggest, how much
difference would it make to the environment?
Sure, less than today or what it would have been otherwise...however,
that isn't going to make enough of a difference...even if we all did
everything right, tomorrow and forever!
First, not everyone is going to "get it" tomorrow.
Second, it will take some (way too long) time for things to change
once enough people do "get it" (and are willing to act accordingly).
Third, you "can't legislate morality" and you cannot "create culture"
(a culture of continuous diminution of human environmental impact)
with a slide show, ad campaign, trained evangelizing presenters, etc.
Until the power of capitalism (far and away the greatest driver of
climatic change by humans) is turned to preserving the biosphere
instead of overcoming it we have no chance of survival.
And, until people make the right choices, though being informed, so
that the market forces will drive the capitalistic machine, that
cannot happen, (regardless of your nice try with the slide show, to
attempt to counteract this impediment...).
The inevitability of the collapse, and the incredibly increasing
population means only one thing...to minimize the murderous effects
due to climate change the fewer people around to be done away with by
those changes the better!
Al, your way (changing human behavior in our use of technology) is too
slow...and MANY MORE PEOPLE will suffer because of it.
If we were few, the world's systems could withstand or tolerate
us...and we could stand a chance of managing our impacts.
Human nature however is too self serving for even a small population
of humans to sustainably manage their existence
"Manage the environment" is an interesting goal, since we don't know
enough about the environment we've already wrecked to know how to fix
it so it would operate in a way we could sustain!
There is only one moral way to voluntarily reduce human population,
and that is for each of us to decide not to have offspring!
NO ONE should have children so that we reduce human suffering, and
allow the continued existence of much of the life on the planet...
If I recall, Tipper was into labeling recordings of song lyrics for
"moral" reasons.
Love to hear you both harmonizing about how having no children is the
only hope for LIFE ITSELF.
VHEMTly yours, Frish
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