onlooker wrote:I
I will start by posting this rather sad story of Doctors without Borders declaring that "Doctors Without Borders announced that it will not be participating in the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit, calling it a mere “fig-leaf of good intentions” that will not actually hold states accountable for their failure to address the humanitarian crisis in the world today." http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/05/ ... rders-whs/
onlooker wrote:Good points Plant. I totally agree. I do not think we are being cynical. It is the reality. I think it partly because "they" cannot do much to remedy the situation and partly because they do not want to expend the resources to do so. Better for the top tier people of the world to continue to party and also allow the lower tier groups to continue their less lavish parties.
Plantagenet wrote:The world is swamped with meeting after meeting after conference after congressional hearing after negotiation after treaty that doesn't actually accomplish anything.
Timo wrote:onlooker wrote:Good points Plant. I totally agree. I do not think we are being cynical. It is the reality. I think it partly because "they" cannot do much to remedy the situation and partly because they do not want to expend the resources to do so. Better for the top tier people of the world to continue to party and also allow the lower tier groups to continue their less lavish parties.
Our devotion to, and beliefs in the exponential growth of capitalism forbids rational thought.
GHung wrote:Maintaining the appearance of doing something when there is nothing that can be done. The surest way to lose power is to admit you're powerless to bring about positive change, so we live in an age of pretence.
Nobody can fix this........
onlooker wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/07/the-migrant-crisis-will-never-end-it-is-part-of-the-modern-world/
The migrant crisis will never end.
Ibon wrote:Our politics divided, those preaching walls and fences and border patrols at the same time as bio-region collapse within borders forces action from those whose empathy and morals demand humanitarian solutions.
ennui2 wrote:Ibon wrote:Our politics divided, those preaching walls and fences and border patrols at the same time as bio-region collapse within borders forces action from those whose empathy and morals demand humanitarian solutions.
What kind of action might that be?
Newfie wrote:Ibon, just to pick on one thing you said where I disagree.....complaining without offering solutions.....
I've heard it said that the best skill is NOT to know the answers but to know how to ask the right questions.
If we can't complain without offering solutions then that isolates us on big questions. Sometimes the group needs to come together to ponder, deal with, absorb, the problem so that a response can be formulated.
To say don't bring a problem without a solution is just a way of pushing off folks.
Ibon wrote:Stability will become a value cherished. Maybe, just maybe, the way we cherish consumption today will be the way we appreciate stability tomorrow. Stability will represent peace and oddly, prosperity.
Ibon wrote:to one day elevate the health of our mother as a universal value that people choose to put before consumption.
Ibon wrote:Now with these examples in mind someone like Lore or Cid will come along and say that with our scorched earth we wont have any healthy new frontiers remaining to repeat this dynamic. I say it is not about finding a pristine new frontier. It is about finding a pristine new orientation that values stability and healing over the current status quo of consumption. If you just left your ruined biosphere behind in South Florida and find yourself embraced in say Wisconsin in a relatively productive bio-region with a fresh start after a long and harrowing journey this will create a new dynamic and new orientation not unlike the ones mentioned above.
ennui2 wrote:I asked what action it would take. You responded by talking about shifting paradigms, not action.
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