Replying to LO29602 --
Dear Organlearners,
Dan Chay <chay@alaska.com> writes:
>I suppose if we aren't able to come together toward mutual
>deceleration sufficiently quickly "we" will "put a stop to it"
>systemically and indirectly via "limits to growth" and "tragedy
>of the commons" in a pattern of three primary variables:
>increasing scarcity of high quality material resource primary
>inputs like clean fresh water, fertile soils, oil, and natural gas;
>direct and indirect impacts from entropic outputs including
>various forms of pollution, dispersion of toxic chemicals,
>destruction of ecosystems, greenhouse gasses, intensification
>of the hydrologic cycle, etc.; and war -- all of which combine
>in destructive amplifying loop patterns.
Greetings dear Dan,
What a lo.......ng, but beautigully articulated, sentence. It captures the
wholeness of it all.
>At this point, as far as I can see, for any number of reasons
>the topic remains largely unspeakable (including with small
>circles), which I see as curious challenge.
I think of the holistic pattern involved, they became aware that they are
part of activities and they do not like their part. But you have also
written it in your word words with
>I have found that there is a pattern that happens very
>quickly in our culture if .....
Dan, reading
>By the way, At, I enjoyed "The Great Story" at
>http://www.thegreatstory.org , (snip)
made me glad.
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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