https://medium.com/eco-news/gaia-and-the-climate-emergency-4e00121205e5
"Gaia. A short word. A concept with the most amazing transformational potential
in helping us understand how we interact with our living home. Given this
potential, it seems tragic that the Gaia hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock
has not gained more traction.
One of the questions that came to mind when starting to write was whether we
really need yet another writer banging on about the environmental crisis and
the same old issues, like Coldplay warming up their greatest hits. You have
heard them before but do you really want to hear them yet again?
There are already countless books telling us about the multiple crises. For
example “This Changes Everything” by Naomi Klein, known for her attack on
neo-liberalism and the influence of corporations on politics in her earlier
book “The Shock Doctrine”. Except nothing changed.
Although we should have got the email and altered course, societal response to
climate breakdown is happening at an imperceptible pace, like a snail on
Mogadon, and at times things are actually heading in the wrong direction. We
are still building new roads, expanding airport capacity, constructing HS2
through ancient woodlands, exploring for more oil. When you are in an emergency
you must do all the right things and none of the wrong things. It’s that
simple. As former US President Barack Obama so succinctly put it, “Don’t do
stupid stuff”!"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
