<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for We screwed Earth Day—get over it]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Steven Earl Salmony http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-23-we-screwed-earth-day-get-over/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:52:17 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-23-we-screwed-earth-day-get-over/1 One day the children will look back in anger and utter disbelief at those in my arrogant and avaricious generation who had the chance at least to try and mitigate the fully expected damages of climate change; but we abjectly failed because we "played around the edges" of the predicament and refused to take demonstrably responsible action. Sacrifices of  'sacred cows' --- our unearned status, privileges and power derived from stupendous wealth --- were too damn hard for so soft, sanctimonious, slippery and selfish a generation of leading elders, I suppose.

Steven Earl Salmony

AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

]]> One day the children will look back in anger and utter disbelief at those in my arrogant and avaricious generation who had the chance at least to try and mitigate the fully expected damages of climate change; but we abjectly failed because we "played around the edges" of the predicament and refused to take demonstrably responsible action. Sacrifices of  'sacred cows' --- our unearned status, privileges and power derived from stupendous wealth --- were too damn hard for so soft, sanctimonious, slippery and selfish a generation of leading elders, I suppose.

Steven Earl Salmony

AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

]]> Comment #2 by Steven Earl Salmony http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-23-we-screwed-earth-day-get-over/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:19:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-23-we-screwed-earth-day-get-over/2 Too few people are expressing concern and outrage about the reckless dissipation of Earth's resources and the relentless degradation of its environs.  As a consequence, the voice of the human community is not yet reverberating and being heard within the highest echelons of international organizations and nation-states.

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