How many more warnings do we need that we are facing the prospect of a cascading regime shift?
The shift will push planetary conditions into a new state.
This state will be hostile to the species that thrived in the old one.
Species like us.
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
The shift will push planetary conditions into a new state.
This state will be hostile to the species that thrived in the old one.
Species like us.
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
This is not to say that nothing else is important. I don't want to downgrade other crucial issues
But, by comparison to this fundamental change of state, everything else *will* fade into insignificance.
Yet it remains at the bottom of the agenda, if it features at all.
But, by comparison to this fundamental change of state, everything else *will* fade into insignificance.
Yet it remains at the bottom of the agenda, if it features at all.
In retrospect, if there is a retrospect, we'll see the current phase of our slide towards disaster as the least comprehensible of all.
We knew what was happening.
The writing was on the wall.
Yet we carried on opening new oil fields, driving SUVs, leaving homes uninsulated.
We knew what was happening.
The writing was on the wall.
Yet we carried on opening new oil fields, driving SUVs, leaving homes uninsulated.
Sometimes it's the small things that get to me most:
The patio heaters
The lights left on
The man playing on his phone in an idling car
The recipes that begin by telling you to turn on the oven, long before you can use it
Why? Because they show how deep and wide the denial runs.
The patio heaters
The lights left on
The man playing on his phone in an idling car
The recipes that begin by telling you to turn on the oven, long before you can use it
Why? Because they show how deep and wide the denial runs.
This is not to say we can solve the problem with small actions. While we should stop doing this stupid stuff, it's not enough. The change we need is systemic.
But these look to me like instances of a pervasive moral blindness.
Perhaps even *proclamations* of this blindness.
But these look to me like instances of a pervasive moral blindness.
Perhaps even *proclamations* of this blindness.
Sometimes, at a level far below active consciousness, we seem to be saying: "look at what I'm doing. If no one's stopping me, there can't be problem."
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