Comments on: Realism, readiness and rhetoric

By: Aubrey Meyer

Aubrey Meyer — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:07:20 +0000

When this writer says, “But I am not convinced, [about Alex Evan's argument for C&C - see above] for reasons arising from the fact that both the future – whether political or climate – is fundamentally unknowable.”
. . . this is exactly the ‘teleological’ point: we *need to know” where we are going with climate change policy and crucially whether what are doing collectively adds up to doing enough soon enough to avoid dangerous rates of climate or not.
That is what the C&C method embraces – so it knows where its going because we tell it where to go. As we continue to cause the problem faster than we respond to avoid it, the great danger now is that though we know that we still fail to organize and to operate to deal with that. As I believe Jonathon Porritt recently declared, making us all increasingly “marginal and irrelevant.” What an epitaph for humanity.

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