You don't have to say sorry to me Vin.
But maybe on the next trip to dance classes you could point out to the kids how much of their environment you are stuffing up.
It doesn't matter in the end as Derrick Jensen says individual action is futile it will take true government action ... and we are not talking 10 - 20 % reduction by 2020, we are talking about draconian actions that democracy will not tolerate ... such as 30 year ban on having children, ban on all immigration, 40 - 80 % reduction in emissions .. now, a MASSIVE education program. instant halt on all road building, cancel the rugby world cup, stop all overseas trips for any govt sponsored sports people or anyone really, in fact a ban on flying full stop, stop importing or exporting most things especially food or anything that takes minerals etc out of NZ.
We should impose a similar system the US has imposed on Cuba .... now that would wake up the GDP (general dumb public) ...... anything short of the above suggestions and you might as well drive your kids over a cliff, as learning Morris dancing will not do a bloody thing to help them survive going forward, but maybe they could then join the Greed Party with all those new skills.
"If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst" - Thomas Hardy 1887”.
I made this up the other day ) .............Everything on the earths crust is toast.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009...
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Published on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 by Orion Magazine
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
by Derrick Jensen
Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal solutions?
Part of the problem is that weve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet? Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide. END SNIP
in August 2009
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