With all the current hulla-bulloo over the life or death of a single individual, it might be worthwhile to reflect on the seriously dim prospect for all of us:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4391835.stm
We are on the wrong side of a Catastrophe Curve - as time progresses, the environmental crisis requires ever more drastic solutions, and we are always about ten steps behind in our thinking. We are now in the process of enacting solutions to problems as they existed ten or fifteen years ago. That's inadequate, to understate the matter just a tad.
People ask me why I don't want to have children - the answer is simply that I have absolutely no faith that when my hypothetical children grew up they would have a world worth living in.
What disturbs me most about this is that this report pegs most of the blame with the post-WWII generations - that's you and me, folks. I think when all is said in done we may go down in history as the Worst Generation - though who will be around to write history, I don't know...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4391835.stm
We are on the wrong side of a Catastrophe Curve - as time progresses, the environmental crisis requires ever more drastic solutions, and we are always about ten steps behind in our thinking. We are now in the process of enacting solutions to problems as they existed ten or fifteen years ago. That's inadequate, to understate the matter just a tad.
People ask me why I don't want to have children - the answer is simply that I have absolutely no faith that when my hypothetical children grew up they would have a world worth living in.
What disturbs me most about this is that this report pegs most of the blame with the post-WWII generations - that's you and me, folks. I think when all is said in done we may go down in history as the Worst Generation - though who will be around to write history, I don't know...