To:    Guardian CiF
Re:    UN Security Council acknowledges importance of global climate change for security
Date: Wednesday 17 April 07

In response to a Guardian article by Jonathan Freedland on the UN Security Council acknowledging the importance of global climate change for security

Link to article and thread at The Guardian.
 

Jonathan, your article well illustrates the "blindingly" obvious fact that we (our leaders) give absolute priority to power politics and economics.

Of course they do. They always have, and surely always will. It's "human nature" to behave like that, isn't it? How could we or our leaders possibly behave any differently?

Actually it is our "animal nature". Which still dominates our behaviour, and in which the social, political and economic framework within which we live and conduct our business is deeply rooted - unsurprisingly, in view of human origins.

Notwithstanding all the devastation and suffering this has caused, we have still managed to survive - thus far; but times and circumstances have changed fundamentally, and unless we change our priorities, we (our civilization, our children) are doomed.

I have a scientific, evolutionary, anthropological, explanation as to why it is we (and our leaders) give absolute priority to power politics and economics, and the conviction that if enough people were to recognise and understand it, we could also change it, and yet save our civilization from catastrophic decline and destruction.

 

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