Comments on: Our Moral Dilemma: Because We Don’t Live on an Inflatable Earth

By: Jack Davis

Jack Davis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:46:18 +0000

Profound, elegant, compelling, convincing. Puts my thoughts for the past decade into words better than I have seen elsewhere and I search continually for insight on the topic.

Read: “Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train” by Brian Czech. His website is at: http://www.steadystate.org/
Brian and Herman Daly have been working together to being us to the realization that we need a new model for a sustainable
economy. Jack Davis Linden, VA

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:13:16 +0000

“…it is all perfect”. How would you explain that to all the people that are suffering and dying without food and/or water today? And I would like to hear your response when this situation arrives to your family.

No matter what way I look at it, it is in no way perfect.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:17:17 +0000

Consider the law of Karma. Whether we see something as horrible or beautiful, it is all perfect.

By: 21stCenturyterminus

21stCenturyterminus — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:04:48 +0000

As a secondary school teacher in the UK, I privately weep that sustainable living is not introduced into the National Curriculum.
We have not only missed opportunity after opportunity through the lack of political will and leadership to do something via legisaltion or public information, but there seems to be a condemnation by silence of our children.

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:55:14 +0000

I’d have to agree with you Chris. The earth’s response is certainly preceded by an earlier socio-political response to things we could have, should have known already. As a race, foresight seems an underdeveloped attribute.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:15:17 +0000

Our mistake, I submit, is that we view the tipping point as the future conjunction of facts in environmental science instead of it having been a sociological event that we passed decades ago. As stated in Limits to Growth, never mind the additional impact of global heating, “Because of the delays in the system, if the global society waits until those constraints are unmistakably apparent, it will have waited too long.”

How will we deal with billions of deaths, millions of refugees, hugely increased demands for palliative care, cannibalism, and worse (whatever that might be!).