This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity

t's hard for a species used to ever-expanding frontiers, but survival depends on accepting we live within limits

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.

The meeting at Copenhagen confronts us with our primal tragedy. We are the universal ape, equipped with the ingenuity and aggression to bring down prey much larger than itself, break into new lands, roar its defiance of natural constraints. Now we find ourselves hedged in by the consequences of our nature, living meekly on this crowded planet for fear of provoking or damaging others. We have the hearts of lions and live the lives of clerks.

George Monbiot

Read on | The Guardian

See also | The exit strategy - nature.com

Labels: Climate Change, Copenhagen

- posted by DD @ 8:16 a.m. Perma Link/Print  

1 reacties:

 DD zei...

Mobiots dramatic words might be true, might. And if they are, we are in a serious fase of transition. And that will allways hurt and means that tough times are ahead of us.

The one image sceptics are so afraid of and are so unwilling to comply with.

We are only at the beginning.
Daan Diederiks

8:38 a.m.  

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