To: New York Times <letters@nytimes.com> Re: Unfortunately, saving planet Earth is not economically feasible Date: Thu, 28 March 2002 |
Dear
Sir/Madam, The
article "Green vs. Making Green"
in today's NYT provides a
terrifyingly clear example of a common attitude towards the fateful situation we
are in: Mr Ford and many like him would so much like to save our planet, but in
practice they find that such a noble venture is simply not economically
feasible. Perhaps
they believe that God will provided us with another planet after we have
finished plundering and wrecking
this one! Why
should I worry? I'll be safely dead and gone by the time things get really bad.
Nor do I have any children or grandchildren whose cures I need one day fear. But
I do care. Which is why on my homepage, under the title "Towards a
Philosophy of Survival", I'm trying to put together my ideas on achieving a
sustainable society. Many
Americans (and Europeans) won't like it, I'm afraid, because it means radically
reforming the "American way of life", which, although most of you
refuse to face up to it, is fundamentally non-sustainable. But It's either that
or extinction. The choice is yours.
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