CBS report: Earth's resources are running out.

[Eric Perry]

I, for one, would agree entirely, Skitch.

 

[michael_atw]

"I do not want to end without mentioning another externality that is dismissed in market systems: the fate of the species. Systemic risk in the financial system can be remedied by the taxpayer, but no one will come to the rescue if the environment is destroyed. That it must be destroyed is close to an institutional imperative. Business leaders who are conducting propaganda campaigns to convince the population that anthropogenic global warming is a liberal hoax understand full well how grave is the threat, but they must maximize short-term profit and market share. If they don't, someone else will."

"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."

Quoted from Noam Chomsky's article: Is the world too big to fail?

This is what we are up against, IMO we reached the tipping point for global warming way back. Market systems being aware of the psychological time frame and the effects of this, which we are indeed already seeing, will push to maximize profits even more-so. To change anything you would have to start at the top. IMO YMMV and stuff.

Chomsky is a beast.

Selfishness is powerful. Division and destruction comes from it. We see that in the United States right now. The vast majority of the motivation and the movements of the people in this country are partly or solely based on selfishness. That's why our leaders are weak and our bonds are breaking.

 

[Unprofessional]

Not to worry. The coming "New Ice Age" is going to get us all long before we run out of petroleum.

Oops! I had another 70's flashback there.

P.S. Noam Chomsky? Really?

 

[Skitch it!]

Chomsky is a beast.

Selfishness is powerful. Division and destruction comes from it. We see that in the United States right now. The vast majority of the motivation and the movements of the people in this country are partly or solely based on selfishness. That's why our leaders are weak and our bonds are breaking.

Systems of control have made this so unfortunately, true values have been undermined to such an extent that it's going to take monumental change to put that fractured conciousness back together again. Are we capable of that? I don't know, I hope we can but cognitive dissonance is very deep seeded.