Ibon wrote: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.
I agree with that when it is an isolated topic. The problem we have today is more than 4 decades of talking about a problem with no solutions and the consequences to date not having the severity to give the named problem any traction towards meaningful solutions. This has caused a weariness in the public about dire warnings never coming to pass. This has been counter productive to the first degree.
In addition, solutions are there, right in front of our face, it is our cultural priorities that are messed up.
OK, I'll bite. Drop human population to 500,000.
There is not a problem that doesn't address.
Now what?