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    Re: Climate Emergency and cognitive dissonance. Archived Message

    Posted by John Monro on February 26, 2019, 2:54 am, in reply to "Re: Climate Emergency and cognitive dissonance."

    Thanks, John, a useful reference. Of course, these thoughts are far from original and I think it's likely true that many millions of concerned people recognise this cognitive dissonance in themselves and others in their societies. For instance, Media Lens regularly examines such matters, particularly in regard to the media's almost total failure to serve the public, and our future, with the truth of the matter. George Monbiot, this site's favourite environmental commentator, regularly reviews the psychology and politics of global warming.

    The Earth's ecology is failing because our human ecology is so corrupt. It always has been but when the total number of humans on the planet was small and before we developed fossil fuel engines and power and controlled our diseases, but not our fertility, the Earth coped. Not always locally though, for instance, Maori here in NZ managed to cause numerous extinctions and fired much forest. It's likely most civilisations collapsed by overextending and damaging their own resources beyond repair, at least according to Jarod Diamond.

    How do we change human ecology? Perhaps we will never do so, and we will, collectively, just have to suffer some appalling circumstances as a result. But that's Gaia, that's reality, that's a more than possible future for us, and is actually an existing present for quite a few millions already.

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