Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
onlooker wrote:Finally, I personally believe all this will be futile as we are now on such a trajectory on the planet that events will scarcely be able to be controlled and greater calamities await that no country can prepare for.
GHung wrote:Ibon said: "We have not lost a single battle against the Overshoot Predator as we move ever closer to losing the war of defeating human overshoot."
Not sure who "we" is, or that I would express it in terms of "win and lose", and how you would define those things, but they are certainly human concepts as "overshoot" is a condition relative to nature and a species' condition relative to the carrying capacity of the space it occupies.
Lore wrote:By all means, let's pretend our security is not threatened. My case in point, no one is preparing. It's the old, better to not think about things we don't like to think about.
Ibon wrote:Lore wrote:By all means, let's pretend our security is not threatened. My case in point, no one is preparing. It's the old, better to not think about things we don't like to think about.
Let me a bit unkind for a moment. What the hell preparation are any of us doing by chatting incessantly about our upcoming peril? A little in the same vein as when Rockmann asks what would really significantly change if suddenly everyone tomorrow woke up and understood fossil fuels as a finite resource?
Hosj wrote:Of course one person can't prevent collapse, but there are still loads of things that you can do to better your chances. If the future looks like the great depression or something similar and not TEOTWAWKI, you will seriously have regretted sitting around and doing nothing when you could have done things that would have bettered yourself.
Paulo1 wrote:@Ibon, Do you not think that what is happening with the migrant flood into Europe is the beginning stages? Everyone mentions Syrian refugees, however, the migrants still flow from North Africa across the Med. One bad harvest and every border is vulnerable.
I have no answer, but to those in Canada and US who say, "yes to refugees but no to economic migrants" I would like to remind them that all of us here, including First Nations (Natives), are decendents of economic migrants or those displaced by others through war.
Ibon wrote:Lore wrote:By all means, let's pretend our security is not threatened. My case in point, no one is preparing. It's the old, better to not think about things we don't like to think about.
Let me a bit unkind for a moment. What the hell preparation are any of us doing by chatting incessantly about our upcoming peril? A little in the same vein as when Rockmann asks what would really significantly change if suddenly everyone tomorrow woke up and understood fossil fuels as a finite resource?
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