Has the Human Race Chosen Hospice?

[KurtNYC]

It was 42 years ago yesterday that we put a clear focus on some threats to survival of the human race. Earth Day 1970 marks the beginning of an awareness that the layer of air we need to survive on this planet is as thin, relatively, as the skin on an onion. We went to the Moon and it clarified just how much we are all in this mess together. A blue and green ball orbiting the Sun is the only place we can live - there is no denying that.

Awareness is only the first step and we seem stuck there. Debating, instead of ignoring, the deniers. Taking our own bag to the grocery. Driving a Prius or hybrid SUV. These things ultimately just make us feel good, avoid a little guilt but have no significant effect on the progress of climate change. They make us more comfortable with our oncoming end.

The alternative to hospice would be some kind of radical surgery that removes the root cause of the problem, the release of excessive carbon. Such a surgery would leave the human race with a temporary impairment of abilities, and less energy until we adapt to new sources. The human race has never taken such a path, instead we react to disaster as they happen with the stated goal of "getting things back to normal."

So hospice it is. We try to stay comfortable, address some spiritual issues and take no extraordinary means to extend the collective life of human beings.

(I would love to be wrong.)

Related:
http://guymcpherson.com/2014/04/what-does-it-mean-to-do-something-about-climate-change/

[CrispyQ]

2. The root cause of the problem is not the environment. It's us.

Have you read Thom Hartmann's "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight?" It discusses the age old problem of cooperative societies who recognize the need to live in balance with nature vs. competitive societies that live beyond their means & usually take over the cooperative societies for their resources. It was an eye opening book for me to realize we've been in this cycle since we crawled out of the cave & now we are about to destroy that which sustains us for the profit of a few. We're not as smart as we think we are.

As a collective, I think we know that we're raging down the FUBAR track & have decided to party like it's 1999.