Enjoy life while you can

At 45 I am there with the skepticism, yet that internal humanistic side believes that an organized truly united human race can accomplish anything. But would the powers that be allow for organization.... I think not. Especially if you have seen the movie Zeitgeistmovie.com I for one will not give up hope for hope is not lost....

Sincerely
Alan Stevenson

I have to agree with tikiman. It's great and wonderful for each of us "little people" to try to do better in our own little ways but leadership is needed to make the major changes.

I feel certain we can do what needs to be done but can we get past our greed for power and money to do it? The tech part and brain power is the easy part. The spiritual and emotional shift is the big question.

That may be but the past can be a track record of what could be accomplished. The moon landing is an example what can be accomplished in a short amount of time if the will to do it is behind it. The space program has had moderate progress since then but no where near the rate at which it did when it was a national priority. The same could be true of advances in solving the energy and enviromental crisis if the kind of will to put a man on the moon was applied there

I believe the past teaches but cannot predict. In almost every historically-significant situation of regional importance or larger, we see and may even comment on a certain repetitive cognizance but those happenings usually have their own individual anomalies that disguise their immediate recognition by most.

Look at Viet Nam as compared to Iraq. Look at Nixon as compared to Bush. Look at Hitler as compared to Bush.

There are thousands of other examples that make "experience" difficult to sell to those who lack it or ignore it.

To those who reject the examples: you may be placing too much emphasis on the anomalies that hide the similarities.

I wonder if our values are where they need to be in order for us to save ourselves.

Since industrialization, we've been waging war on the very thing that keeps our quality of life possible, the very thing we depend on for food - the ecosystem. 100 million year old ecosystem. we're watching it die off right now because we want cars and refrigerators.

Our values are.... oops, the wrong ones.

I agree that we all want a sense of purpose, however arent those striving for purpose also looking for a change? We as people like comfort, we need to find eco friendly ways to be comfortable and stop wasting all our money on crap like war, if we all just united we could solve problems a lot faster. Stop being selfish, help your neighbor even if it's sweat of your back and you wont get anything in return.

That was a very similar attitude that Thomas Malthus had about the rate of population growth, but ways were found around that crisis too. I agree that the proposals that I've heard about "carbon offsets" do sound like scams and most others are like a band-aid on a broken leg, but if people did get as serious about doing something as they did about The Depression or WWII then major research could get farther to be implemented than the "head in the sand" approach than has been norm in most of few decades.

What does he care? Look at him. I give him a week.

He's a defeatist who constantly speaks out on behalf of nuclear energy. I don't even listen to him anymore.

prepare for the worst, hope for the best

Yo ya me reconcilie con el mundo, soy feliz, morire el dia que muera y punto. No me preocupa. Hare lo que pueda para ayudar mientras tanto...

wisdom.