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What is the argument for shutting up about Climate? Put another way, what is the argument for discussing it?
I am trying, in this series of posts, beginning maybe the end of May, to be as strategic as possible. But that is already vague. “Strategic “in a solar panel corporation and in the government accountability office is very different. Where we local ourselves determines much of what “strategic” is going to mean. I am writing to support as yet unspoken thoughts of your own. This is all deliciously complex. Meanwhile the actual suffering in the world is increasing rapidly.
Talk about climate? Why?
This simple post brings to mind an old expression and an very old folk tale. The expressions: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." To me this is always a reminder of the downside of intellectual rumination. While we are applying our intellectual processes life - and death as you point out - continue. Often during the period of time we take to study and plan, the issues we have studied and the conditions we have planned for have changed. The folk tale is the story of the blind men and the elephant. Where do we "local ourselves"? Are we at the head of the elephant, or the tail? Even collaborators with the best of intentions (and not motivated initially by profit), often cannot see the whole from their unique vantage points. Humanity seems less and less capable of seeing issues from the vantage points of others and emotionally and egotistically less and less capable of true collaboration. In the contemporary version of the folk tale, every blind man will insist that he is right and that all the others are idiots.
future thinking, or thinking of and for the future? not to be flip, and as you write early in Gardenword, Doug, “We are dealing with human nature.” We can not abandon our own personal mind work, and our innate shared sociality.