tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397561532797480451.post6415296886555339496..comments2023-06-27T01:56:26.647-07:00Comments on Becoming Green: Read this... No Pressure.Morgan Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15499493927845948400noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397561532797480451.post-68820084892661990772010-10-04T06:08:03.215-07:002010-10-04T06:08:03.215-07:00Refreshing, stimulating. Why no progress on climat...Refreshing, stimulating. Why no progress on climate? Higher frequency of disasters wd have helped (Pakistan and other floods notwithstanding). Media less given to seeing all in transient terms. Attention spans expanded beyond the 36 hour limit. Note, tho, Johann H's piece dates from Feb 2008, ten months BEFORE the (much 'enhanced') Climate Change Act came into force at end-Nov 2008. Yet perhaps, as in spiral progression, we are re-approaching the same territory as then, when many of us campaigners imagined the UK CC Act wd 'sort things out.' Of course, it hasn't come close. So perhaps meaningful response demands things of us that we are just no longer prepared to face, like what is going on inside ourselves, or who exactly is it lives in there? So maybe it's a challenge to discover our deepest aspect, whatever one chooses to call that. <br /><br />There are some who do explore this dimension and they see our inattention to climate change as a symptom of how through our materialism, we’ve reduced the aspects of ourselves that ARE engaged to such a miniscule part of who we truly are, that we are no longer in contact with the part capable of a response. This, they say, is bad news we just do not want to know about. Our ready remedy? Yet more materialism. Proof ? Expansionist capitalism, reliance on ‘wisdom of the market’ – and on our reptilian ‘fight-or-flight’ brain. For many, the 'cure' is more painful than the 'disease,' it seems.emissionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14858923675080738995noreply@blogger.com