tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post8911174851668539599..comments2024-03-28T22:02:16.520-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: Are You A Supremacist?Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-73368906410297007732016-09-01T08:37:46.980-04:002016-09-01T08:37:46.980-04:00Your question captures the arrogance that is destr...Your question captures the arrogance that is destroying all of us, Ray.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-19333207547103429162016-08-31T12:46:12.950-04:002016-08-31T12:46:12.950-04:00I concur completely, Mound. Our addiction to consu...I concur completely, Mound. Our addiction to consumption, our overweening insistence upon our own comforts and conveniences, leave little room for imagining, let alone implementing, another way. Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-2856773974334975032016-08-31T12:42:21.072-04:002016-08-31T12:42:21.072-04:00It is one of those pleasurable activities that rea...It is one of those pleasurable activities that really intrudes very little upon the nature around us, Owen.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-10946605621707647102016-08-31T12:06:13.245-04:002016-08-31T12:06:13.245-04:00At times I think there's little left for us bu... At times I think there's little left for us but to chronicle the steady decline in our civilization and societies. Despite the urgency of the moment we have never managed to get past the bargaining stage. We are doomed by our insistence on compromise. When you're 100 feet from the cliff's edge, you need to reach a full stop well short of that. The compromise of stopping at 120 feet just isn't any damned good. <br /><br />Our leadership is all about compromise. Carbon pricing embodies compromise and thus is reduced to gesture. That's the starting point but wait until Ottawa weathers the storm of negotiation with premiers like Brad Wall. We cannot forget her ladyship, Catherine McKenna's spanking delivered by Rachel Notley's enviromin that left McKenna bleating "national unity, national unity" to cover her retreat.<br /><br />There is no solution to this climate menace that does not also address the existential challenges of overpopulation and over-consumption. There is a solution to all three but it involves unwelcome, even threatening principles of equity and justice. Mankind is crippled by a complete lack of experience in this sort of order that would have to permeate every mode of our organization - social, economic, political, industrial, environmental and more. That would entail a substantial reduction in lifestyle for the advantaged societies. We would have to do with far less so that others might have barely enough and yet we would scoff at the notion and toss out any politician who championed it. We are unable to mentally sever quality of life from standard of living which ensures we'll never reach for the solutions, at least not until it's far too late.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-30086661115332734482016-08-31T11:36:42.739-04:002016-08-31T11:36:42.739-04:00I read Salutin's excellent piece a few days ag...I read Salutin's excellent piece a few days ago, Lorne. And, like you, my wife and I watch the birds at our feeders -- particularly over the winter. We consider the time we spend bird watching to be quality time.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com