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czarina Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
Facing Extinction
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I dunno. Seems a bit over the top. We are nothing if not adaptable. The largest change will be who makes money and who loses it. And it’s happening very slowly.
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czarina Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
Steve, from your reply I would think you didn't read the entire essay, but rather you are responding to the headline. She makes a very good case, I think, for why your statements are not the likely outcome.
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Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity ![]() |
I think it's a foregone conclusion that we will go extinct without some kind of extraterrestrial interference. There are just too many stupid, greedy people on the planet. | |||
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Short answer to your question piqué: no I don't think so. I'll use me as a case in point. First, the essay is LONG. When the scroll bar is tiny, it has to be a topic I'm interested in to put the time towards reading it. Second, did I mention it's really long? tldr Third, I got plenty of doom-and-gloom I could focus on. Species extinction is on that list somewhere, but it's not the top. Guess that's a bit crazy in many respects, but there it is. Forth, Amazon has a rainforest? I thought they just sold books! Is that maybe where all their smiley boxes come from? Sorry I couldn't come through for you with anything serious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | |||
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Yes it is long. I will pull out just a few of the most thought provoking sections in case that helps.
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On How and Why Extinction Could Happen Suddenly--Methane Releases in the Arctic:
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On Why We Are Incapable of Confronting Reality:
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I gave the essay my best shot but I couldn't make it through. What I did read just didn't resonate with me. And stupid as it sounds, I had a hard time with the text. It's super fine, small, and there wasn't enough contrast with the background. I had never heard of Catherine Ingram, so I checked her bio information on her site. I was surprised to see her say that she was a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society of Barre, MA. I've never seen her name mentioned with the IMS founders I'm familiar with (Kornfield, Salzberg, and Goldstein). I've got a bunch of books by folks from the IMS crowd (Kabat-Zinn plus the three I mentioned above) that I've found most enlightening. Given her background, I'm doubly surprised the essay didn't speak to me. Sorry....
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There is a popup that you can click to see an easier to read version.
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I read at least half, then had to leave. It was V-E-E-R-R-Y long Neverthless, that was enough to scare me sh*tless - that is, even more than the usual. Personally, I was interested that she said she'd been close friends with Leonard Cohen for his last quarter century. That led me to reading a LOT about him and his "muse" and listening to some of his songs - he was most famous when I was living overseas and I guess he wasn't as famous there as the US...At least not in my art school. Anyhow it was good to acquaint myself more with him. (Just one more reason to feel disgusted that Bob Fake-Joow Dylan won a Nobel Prize instead of Leonard Cohen who was so much more authentic.)
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So much to unpack...better to pick an element of the item. I think this is our downfall in getting folks onboard for climate change... Start small...Like my compost service at home, driving less, growing a garden.
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czarina Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
She says it is too late to do anything. The end of the article she has recommendations for what to do. Pretty much live in the present and appreciate small things.
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Its tough to get too worked up about what you are powerless to affect. This battle gets won or lost in Beijing. Anything we do personally is just about making ourselves feel good.
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