tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735739886019395087.post1966866084791630313..comments2023-09-23T07:59:23.522-07:00Comments on C-Realm: The Smell of BetternessKMOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14742517570095417154noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735739886019395087.post-22406726376950133632013-06-27T09:32:38.168-07:002013-06-27T09:32:38.168-07:00Dear KMO:
I loved your recent program with Guy McP...Dear KMO:<br />I loved your recent program with Guy McPherson, especially the point where he honestly admitted he might not have radically changed his living situation had he known how things would be today. The truth is refreshing, and this particular truth reminded me of the life-lesson that radical changes are often less productive than incremental (organic?) change.<br /> And speaking of organic..I really enjoy it when Jay Smith is on. He beams tranquility and reasonableness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735739886019395087.post-86811420252283589902013-06-23T13:41:30.712-07:002013-06-23T13:41:30.712-07:00Hi Phil,
Thank you for commenting. Yes, just beca...Hi Phil,<br /><br />Thank you for commenting. Yes, just because Evgeny Morozov has coined (or at least popularized) a label for people who think that we live in unprecidented times it doesn't mean that we don't live in unprecedented times. <br /><br />I think it could be said with some fairness that JMG's position, the one that depicts both the advocates for a glorious transformation and the prophets of doom as varieties of people who can't or won't wrap their minds around the fact that the kinds of transformations they predict do not unfold over the course of a single human lifetime amounts to a very articulate form of question begging. <br /><br />In the interest of keeping an open mind, I think we have to leave on the table the possibility that Guy McPherson may be right about near term human extinction.<br /><br />Even so, I think it's good to be on the lookout for signs of epochalism when weighing the merits of any particular forcast.<br /><br />Thank you again, and stay well.<br /><br /> -KMOKMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14742517570095417154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735739886019395087.post-45286919043856013362013-06-23T12:36:18.239-07:002013-06-23T12:36:18.239-07:00I see you carefully neglect the work of c-realm gu... I see you carefully neglect the work of c-realm guest Guy Mcpherson. And Guy is only a messenger, his sin is to point out the science studies which indicate that we really ARE at the end of an epoch. We have all taken a stable climate for granted. We have all assumed that the human drama would be played out against a fairly reliable backdrop of spring, summer, fall and winter. The evidence suggests that is changing. Even the oligarchies live with that assumption. No amount of money, no amount of power or persuasion, no amount of property and loyal lackies will keep you safe if the climate backdrop shifts radically.<br /> I'm grateful to be around to find out. 200 species a day are going extinct (most recently the black rhino of Africa). That number is conservative. Yes there have been extinction events in the past, yes evolution is dynamic and constantly changing, yes, yes, yes. We'll know in a few years if the arctic ice is gone just how fragile our current living arrangements really are_ Park avenue or park bench. I'm not being "epochal" I'm simply avoiding the more obvious forms of denial.Phil in Freeporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06817103142665559597noreply@blogger.com