sky is falling/end of world
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<<<<I don't think the
factory farming, the pollutants from the food industry
and other industries, the destruction of the
rainforest for beef production to name a few things
are an exaggeration. Why do you feel they are.
I think scare tactic ecology is loaded terminology
that was referred to in the list rules Pam just sent
to the list. ....But there is still the core truth of the
way the planet is being destroyed in so many ways by
so many people. It is not scare tactic ecology. >>>
-=-Maybe "destroy the earth" is a phrase that is unnecessarily big and scary
for a kid to be having in the forefront of his mind, especially if it makes
him feel powerless and small.
-=-
It's unnecessarily big for adults. But it's not new at all.
Came across this yesterday and laughed:
"Throughout recorded history, human beings have looked around at the world
and exclaimed, "Everything is falling apart!" And they have always been wrong.
The sun rose in the morning, and there was a world. Maybe not the greatest
world, but a world. Still, that nagging human sense remains: things are
getting bad, and they can only get worse."
It's from the literature section of a book called Condensed Knowledge, by the
editors of "Mental_floss."
Sandra
factory farming, the pollutants from the food industry
and other industries, the destruction of the
rainforest for beef production to name a few things
are an exaggeration. Why do you feel they are.
I think scare tactic ecology is loaded terminology
that was referred to in the list rules Pam just sent
to the list. ....But there is still the core truth of the
way the planet is being destroyed in so many ways by
so many people. It is not scare tactic ecology. >>>
-=-Maybe "destroy the earth" is a phrase that is unnecessarily big and scary
for a kid to be having in the forefront of his mind, especially if it makes
him feel powerless and small.
-=-
It's unnecessarily big for adults. But it's not new at all.
Came across this yesterday and laughed:
"Throughout recorded history, human beings have looked around at the world
and exclaimed, "Everything is falling apart!" And they have always been wrong.
The sun rose in the morning, and there was a world. Maybe not the greatest
world, but a world. Still, that nagging human sense remains: things are
getting bad, and they can only get worse."
It's from the literature section of a book called Condensed Knowledge, by the
editors of "Mental_floss."
Sandra
Julie Bogart
--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
Hermann Kahn, the brilliant futurist, understood this well. In his last work of prescience
(The Coming Boom, 1982), Kahn foresaw our current predicament. "The question
remains," he wrote then, "whether President Reagan -- and ultimately his successors --
can maintain and build on the opportunities of the present." To do so, he predicted, it
would be "important to the coming boom to reestablish an ideology of progress" which
would "do as much to hasten the coming boom and give it staying power as any single
policy maneuver can." (http://www.pff.org/publications/ecommerce/
fi2.3futureofprogress.html)
Part of his viewpoint is that many people look at "change" as bad, while "progress" implies
change that is good or productive. Even reframing the discussion to how we can
"progress" creates energy and optimism which then fuels the kind of change we need.
He also espoused the idea that technology is responsible for solving the problems it
creates and often inspires solutions that contribute to boom. He doesn't shrink from the
problems technology creates, but he stands in warm relief against the "limits to growth"
model that is oriented toward predictions of doom and offers conservation as the only
option for preservation of our way of life.
Julie B
>Hermann Kahn (Technological Optimist) says:
> "Throughout recorded history, human beings have looked around at the world
> and exclaimed, "Everything is falling apart!" And they have always been wrong.
> The sun rose in the morning, and there was a world. Maybe not the greatest
> world, but a world. Still, that nagging human sense remains: things are
> getting bad, and they can only get worse."
Hermann Kahn, the brilliant futurist, understood this well. In his last work of prescience
(The Coming Boom, 1982), Kahn foresaw our current predicament. "The question
remains," he wrote then, "whether President Reagan -- and ultimately his successors --
can maintain and build on the opportunities of the present." To do so, he predicted, it
would be "important to the coming boom to reestablish an ideology of progress" which
would "do as much to hasten the coming boom and give it staying power as any single
policy maneuver can." (http://www.pff.org/publications/ecommerce/
fi2.3futureofprogress.html)
Part of his viewpoint is that many people look at "change" as bad, while "progress" implies
change that is good or productive. Even reframing the discussion to how we can
"progress" creates energy and optimism which then fuels the kind of change we need.
He also espoused the idea that technology is responsible for solving the problems it
creates and often inspires solutions that contribute to boom. He doesn't shrink from the
problems technology creates, but he stands in warm relief against the "limits to growth"
model that is oriented toward predictions of doom and offers conservation as the only
option for preservation of our way of life.
Julie B