Sustainability
Humans v. Sea Lions v. Salmon: A Lose, Lose, Lose Situation
As is so often the case, the human solution to this human-caused problem is to create a problem for someone else, either a human of less power or a nonhuman species. Humans get all mixed up about causes and solutions and justify their stinky behavior (overfishing, sea lion killing) with seemingly altruistic reasoning (feed people, save the salmon).
Beyond Climate Change 101
As with all meaningful change, there is no simple fix for our climate change crisis. There is no pill, band aid, 12-step formula, or “expert’s” advice to heal Earth or its life forms. There is no “clean” nuclear power that will preserve our current luxuries without risking even more environmental disaster, no green product that will redeem generations of overconsumption, no fluorescent light bulb that will reverse the excess of our industrialized systems, no recycling process that can restore forests, no zoo or seed bank that can preserve our world’s biodiversity, no replacement planet we can relocate to. For worse and for better we are stuck here with our mess and our weakness, our solutions and our strength.
Underinsured Is Unsustainable
As is the case in so many areas of contemporary American society, the kind of long-term big-picture thinking that creates sustainable systems (which one might call wisdom) is eclipsed by narrow, short-term agendas, sustainable or not.
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