- Re: Go on then, Will: Predict *precisely* where the climate emergency will be in 10 years. Younger Archived Message
Posted by Thomas Newfield
on November 11, 2019, 10:34 am, in reply to "Go on then, Will: Predict *precisely* where the climate emergency will be in 10 years. Younger"
|
Yes, thanks Rhis. Plant trees: good idea, compared to chucking coins in the pot or going for a stroll down central with the north London mums (ie: ER). Also: escape from the city into a simpler life that's not dependent on long regular car journeys, with some workable plot of land; that's risky btw and quite an ask to persuade the family to come happily. I might add: 1) The Official Future of 5G, AI, highly controlled access to "nature", universal income and steadily huge population of useless semi-serfs, "free movement" all over the shop, fills me with forboding and despair. Perhaps no actual peasant would agree with me, but, give me an actually meaningful, and potentially beautiful - or no - life, any day. 2) I simply can't see how the level of sacrifice you (?) / we call for is practicable without a worldview that actually treasures sacrifice as its central need and virtue - i.e: a religious one. Willem - just as much if not more magical thinking in the modern (wiki-)science world view as in the mediaeval attempts at recapitulation. I would say, more. I suppose that makes you a "progressive" and me a "reactionary". Ho hum. |