Why do you think so many people squirm away from the bleak reality of climate change? Why is it that it seems to still be the case that the majority of humans prefer to keep their heads in the sand about this issue? Do you think that there is hope or do you feel that we are doomed? Or do you just prefer not to think about it? What does everyone think? Do you think its better just to forget all about it or do you believe that it is the moral imperative of everyone alive right now to think about the way we are living our lives? Do you believe that you have any responsibility towards future generations? And if so what could you do today to make a difference for those future generations? Last year, some 30 people, including the ethicist Clive Hamilton and the journalist Andrew Revkin, attended a seminar in Washington D.C. on the Anthropocene — a term denoting a new geologic epoch, dominated by human influence. Hamilton noticed that some of the participants seemed optimistic, even excited, about the advent of the Anthropocene. “I was astonished and irritated that some people who were scientifically literate were imposing this barrier of wishful thinking between the science and future outcomes for humanity,” he said. Hamilton had just written a book, Requiem for a Species, arguing that people squirm away from the bleak reality of climate change.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:38:17 +0000
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