> >This does not mean that ethical judgement will become obsolete, but > >that ethics and practice will converge. The task of building an > >energy-efficient localised economy at least 25 years too late may > >well be futile - but there is one good outcome. This time, having > >explored all alternatives, human society will be forced to do the > >right thing. > >It's always nice to wake up to a naively optimistic email message, >but let's get REAL here -- humans can ALWAYS find a way to do >the WRONG thing, especially if they feel FORCED! :-)
A very industrialised post-modern view, Ken - ie, naively pessimistic. :-) Your "REAL" hasn't applied to most humans who've lived, and still doesn't to most now alive, who're neither industrialised nor post-modern, for the most part. Maybe they'll succeed in skipping this little blip in history altogether, eh? Along with its pessimisms. Though not, indeed, many of its side-effects, as the article says, whether it paints the right scenario or not, even if maybe not quite the side-effects he predicts. I don't think he figures in nearly enough of the factors at play, but he could be right, could be wrong. Right about some things. Regards Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
