Ostritches thinking about flying
I'm afraid I've not posted for a while as I've had more pressing things to attend to lately than the end of the world as we know it.
Sometimes life just gets in the way - right? - and we lose sight of the bigger picture.
But how come so many people out there seem to have simply no sense whatsoever of impending danger and have apparently never seen the bigger picture, despite the fact that our media is flooded with the verified and corroborated accounts of scientists warning us every day of new environmental disasters on the horizon? How come this stuff just washes over so many (allegedly smart) people?
We've just had the publication of the Stern report into the economic effects of climate change, which apparently says that after reviewing all of the avaiable evidence there is no doubt that the only way to save society is to take strong and urgent action to reduce emissions. (Today, just as an aside, we also have a report that global fish stocks will be wiped out within 40 years if we don't change our ways.) But at the same time we have a programme on the BBC about the growing market for private jets including interviews with a whole bunch of people who obviously take no account of these warnings and base their multi-billion pound business models entirely on an extrapolation of the data on air travel over the last few years.
Even I have heard of the concept of "the tipping point", so how come so many of these thrusting corporate types haven't? What management guides are they actually reading as they fly upstate for their power breakfasts?
Sometimes life just gets in the way - right? - and we lose sight of the bigger picture.
But how come so many people out there seem to have simply no sense whatsoever of impending danger and have apparently never seen the bigger picture, despite the fact that our media is flooded with the verified and corroborated accounts of scientists warning us every day of new environmental disasters on the horizon? How come this stuff just washes over so many (allegedly smart) people?
We've just had the publication of the Stern report into the economic effects of climate change, which apparently says that after reviewing all of the avaiable evidence there is no doubt that the only way to save society is to take strong and urgent action to reduce emissions. (Today, just as an aside, we also have a report that global fish stocks will be wiped out within 40 years if we don't change our ways.) But at the same time we have a programme on the BBC about the growing market for private jets including interviews with a whole bunch of people who obviously take no account of these warnings and base their multi-billion pound business models entirely on an extrapolation of the data on air travel over the last few years.
Even I have heard of the concept of "the tipping point", so how come so many of these thrusting corporate types haven't? What management guides are they actually reading as they fly upstate for their power breakfasts?
posted by Jon Brooke at 9:33 pm
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