“Cimate change is not the point, and that’s one reason why it’s not the rallying cry it is made out to be. The climate changes anyway and everyone knows that. But, humankind’s greedy stupidity and short-sightedness *is* however causing the degradation of the biological environment both onland and in the oceans, with wholesale industrial pollution, record levels of deforestation, the exhaustion of natural resources which we and millions of other species require for life. Once the ecosphere is sufficiently depleted, mass starvation will become the issue. When the Greens align themselves around the issues of food and water, we might see some coordination.”
I blame this man who found a superbly appropriate way of responding to “pron spam”. I also strongly recommend his work for those of you with a penchant for bite-sized, well-observed, well-written fiction.
Deepak Chopra is on Seesmic, which is nice as he’s lifted the discourse level somewhat, at the same time as pushing his book, of course… but nothing wrong with that, when it’s on such an interesting subject.
We started discussing the spark of divinity; my Seesmate Dave Shannon said some stuff which set me off on one.