- Dear
Sir/Madam,
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- Reading
the article “Climate
Talks Shift Focus to How to
Deal With Changes” in
today’s NYT, I wondered if a
sagacious person attending a
diplomatic cocktail party in
Berlin in the mid 1930’s and
listening to polite
conversation about the future
course of European history,
might not have had similar
feelings to my own.
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- In plundering our
planet we are heading towards
catastrophe on an unimaginable
scale, but because averting it
will entail radical changes to
current economic philosophy
and lifestyles (and the values
and aspirations on which they
are based), we refuse to even
contemplate it. Instead, we
delude ourselves into
believing that somehow all
will be well in the end.
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- One day
our own children will curse us
for what we are doing to what
is after all their planet too.
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- What
irony that we presume to call
ourselves “Homo sapiens”
(wise man)!
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