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Can't Play Tennis
February 13th, 2010, Gary to
himself.
Q: Why don't we treat the environment,
animals and nature as our most valuable assets, given they are our life-support system?
A: It is our arrogance and feeling of superiority over all other species and nature
in general that makes us believe we can do anything we want.
This includes destroying rain forests, depleting oceans of fish, polluting the
atmosphere, etc and also thinking we can solve any of these problems with technology, rather than taking a good,
hard look at ourselves and why we behave the way we do.
Most people don't understand that evolution is a continuous, creative, changing
process, in which the rules of the game of life are also changing as the participants change the playing
field.
We have been lucky so far but our luck is running out quickly but we don't really
FEEL WE ARE THE PROBLEM.
We perceive THE PROBLEM to be always 'out there'.
The 'slow' changing climate is still too remote from most people's everyday reality.
Unfortunately our brains are conditioned to react to short-term, local events. Gradual remote change that happens
slowly and builds up to an eventual crisis point is not part of our evolutionary equipment.
Of course humans are mainly responsible for polluting the atmosphere and even if we
weren't responsible, we had better do something to fix the problem if we want to stay in the game and conserve
our beautiful planet for our children and future generations.
I can only see this happening if we become much more self-aware, creative and
cooperative on a global scale.
Anyone for tennis?
