As a person who is regularly described as a hippy of sorts and is therefore beginning to believe it herself here is a quote to get you all thinking about saving the world, its an important and very true point and if nothing else maybe putting it this way will catch peoples attention on the subject:
'For starters, let's be clear about what we mean by "saving the earth." The globe doesn't need to be saved by us, and we couldn't kill it if we tried. What we do need to save—and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up so far—is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then, it's us we're trying to save—and while the job is doable, it won't be easy'
On the hippy front, I still refuse to go as far as tree hugging, their just not responsive and it only results in heartache for me.
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- I am a bit of a hippy it must be confessed, but not overly on the tree hugging side - i find they are sadly unresponsive.
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I once read a piece by a radical conservationist who pointed out that humanity (as we exist today) is really a viral or cancerous species, and it is only a matter of time before the earth's "immune systems" kill us off. He went on to say that we could choose to live within the bounds of the earth's systems, or we could be destroyed like an invading disease.
Good post.
I've taken some flack for my lack of enthusiasm for eco-friendly causes (I tend to support charitable groups more attune to my interests in life - EFF, Child's Play, The efforts to send inexpensive solar and crank rechargeable laptops to schools in Africa - which btw is going wonderfully) but I tend to agree with thoughts like this. Short of innovations in Death Star development we really aren't going to destroy the planet, we're just going to make it completely incapable of supporting life.
In Canada, the city (I think it's at least an Ontario Provincial - if not national - thing now)forces recycling by giving smaller rubbish bins for people to put the curb, then supplementing those with recycling bins (they are pretty cool actually, little material dividers and such) then giving discounted services to families who recycle more, and fining the piss out of households that do no recycling. It's worked brilliantly so far. In my personal opinion, the States should take this practice up as well...
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