To: The New York
Times
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Dear
Sir/Madam,
The President
has admitted
that we are
addicted to
oil. But how
many
alcoholics
have admitted
their
addiction to
friends and
family,
sincerely
assuring them
that they will
now get on top
of it, but
failed to do
so?
The way things
stand at the
moment, we
will not get
on top of our
addiction
either, the
consequences
of which -
quite
literally, if
we love our
children and
grandchildren
- do not bear
thinking
about.
The reason is that we have yet to recognise the seriousness - the depth, extent and urgency - of our addiction, which is not just to oil, but to a fundamentally unsustainable economy and way of life, which, along with many of the values, attitudes and (material) aspirations which underlie them (unsurprisingly, in view of what Charles Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins) are rooted in our "more animal than human " nature.
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