http://no-mans-blog.com/2006/05/12/lovelock-the-furious-green-prophet/ Asi Sharabi's Private Selections Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://no-mans-blog.com/2006/05/12/lovelock-the-furious-green-prophet/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Maria Palma Tue, 16 May 2006 15:48:48 +0000 http://no-mans-blog.com/?p=27#comment-24 I guess I must still be a child because I always wonder how the world would be like if we all thought the same in terms of just simply being kind to one another. Is that too much to ask these days? I'll definitely have to check out Lovelock's book. Thanks for sharing! I guess I must still be a child because I always wonder how the world would be like if we all thought the same in terms of just simply being kind to one another. Is that too much to ask these days? I’ll definitely have to check out Lovelock’s book. Thanks for sharing!

]]> http://no-mans-blog.com/2006/05/12/lovelock-the-furious-green-prophet/comment-page-1/#comment-23 JamesB Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:21 +0000 http://no-mans-blog.com/?p=27#comment-23 I think there is far simpler explanations to do with need for governments to institute change at a macro level whilst preserving national interests [we don't need to go into some half-baked biological determinism]. pushing the opportunity cost of not instituting the changes becomes more difficult when the scientific community disagree on the 'cost' itself, not to mention the difficulty of selling the 'cost' over an epoch, over more than a generation when we're so used to short-termist solutions. in short: we're screwed. to mitigate the awfulness of it all we could do worse than get some bloody good comms/brand people to actually sell it into the world as a whole.... a big brief. I think there is far simpler explanations to do with need for governments to institute change at a macro level whilst preserving national interests [we don't need to go into some half-baked biological determinism]. pushing the opportunity cost of not instituting the changes becomes more difficult when the scientific community disagree on the ‘cost’ itself, not to mention the difficulty of selling the ‘cost’ over an epoch, over more than a generation when we’re so used to short-termist solutions. in short: we’re screwed. to mitigate the awfulness of it all we could do worse than get some bloody good comms/brand people to actually sell it into the world as a whole…. a big brief.

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