The recent posts on climate change are an interesting mixed bag. Churlishly I
could see discussions about flights to various exotic locales to see a "one
off" bird for twitching purposes as little different to the Sydney Morning
Herald prattling on about climate change with a large advertisement for a gas
guzzling Jaguar on the same page.
As the head of Blair's panel on the issue pointed out some months ago - we
haven't yet got the picture of how big the changes are we will have to make. We
literally have to turn off the air-conditioning, sell the jetski/4x4/trailbike
ad nauseum now if our kids are to continue seeing butterflys.
Our will to do this I suspect is limited by a socio-economic system which sees
individuals as modularised consuming units within a system of production for
productions sake. Without fundamental change to the underlying philosophy of
this society there will be little real effort to reduce the impact of climate
change.
Just a short note on corruption. I remember a Tanzanian engineer in Daresalem
saying corruption was endemic in Africa but "you white guys are so good at it".
That might be how Paul Lennon is feeling at the moment with the loaded Gunn or
Dick Cheney who has managed to give Halliburton a permanant IV from the US
budget.
Chris Lloyd
Training Officer
WIRES
PO Box 260
Forestville NSW 2087
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