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> Ok, one of my personal Heros is a real SOB, makes Thompson look like a
> leftie wimp... But this is very interesting how well he saw into the
> future... He served his country well.
>
> Some lunchtime Rickover for you:
>
> http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2724
This is exactly what so many "greenies" have been saying for many years,
and so often the "conservative" factions choose to belittle their
observations and insist on "business as usual" while denying what to me is
an obvious reality. I have been concerned about environmental issues since
at least 1970, when I attended a conference on ecology and stewardship of
the earth at a Lutheran camp called Holden Village in the beautiful Cascade
mountains of WA state. I joined the Sierra Club in 1975, initially because
I enjoyed hiking, backpacking, and other outings, but also because I
believed in their concerns about the future and the reckless destruction of
natural resources in the name of progress and profit.
There are many ostriches who refuse to see the reality and instead choose
to gouge a few more years of making money from a doomed economy based on
lifestyles of conspicuous and wasteful consumption. It is not about whether
or not humans are responsible for global warming and catastrophic climate
change, but the efforts to reduce our contribution to this phenomenon will
at the same time forestall the inevitable reversal of the standard of
living for the majority of the population. And a dwindling minority who
continue to embrace their lavish lifestyles will eventually be deprived of
their power to continue.
Eventually, and probably in the lifetimes of most of us, we will see either
a voluntary shift to a cooperative way of life that is sustainable and fair
for the majority, or else suffer a cataclysmic event such as war among
nations or within nations among their people who will have become polarized
and frustrated to the point of violence.
Paul
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