Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - Re: [permaculture] GLOBAL WARMING:- A different 'take' on it

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Tom Gorman <tom@honeychrome.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] GLOBAL WARMING:- A different 'take' on it
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:28:22 -0400

In many ways "global warming" and whatever its causes, possible solutions, etc. etc. is beside the point. Whether global warming is happening or not, the broader (and related) issues of finite resource depletion and a population growth that has overshot the renewable carrying capacity of what is a limited system (the planet, that is) are to my mind far more important to have people fundamentally understand. Global warming is already being used as a marketing 'opportunity,' and though more and more people are becoming aware and accepting of it's reality, it is being understood as something we will solve through some sort of 'technology' and by simply altering our consumer choices to 'greener' ones. Without understanding the mathematics of growth and a system of limited resources there won't be acceptance of the unavoidable conclusion that the solution to our problems is "less." Less consumption, less economic activity, less people, less travel, etc. Even if global warming wasn't an issue at all we'd still be coming up against all the same fundamental problems of overpopulation, environmental poisoning, resource depletion. Personally I don't see how the tools of our current global system of activity and interaction are possibly going to even attempt to solve the problems we face when the very 'toolbox' is built of the impossible notion of perpetual growth.

All of which is a windy way of saying global warming is a symptom, not the disease.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page