Ibon wrote:Lore wrote:One of the difficulties I see in getting people to understand the danger at hand is that humans in general tend to be Pollyanna about their future. They don't want to think about things they don't like to think about.
If you want to be positive about doing something? Tell everyone you know about the crisis that lays ahead. Then expect to get a lot of funny looks.
Let's probe deep here and please understand I am not singling you out but addressing this to the wider audience here.
I think it is time for a new orientation. For 50 years environmentalists and climate scientists and population demographers have made one dire warning after another and you can see as well as anyone that this strategy not only has failed to break this pollyanna mindset that you mentioned but in many cases has backfired since the nay sayers have used the "boy who cried wolf" story of doomer environmentalists as an effective defense to bolster their denial. This so frustrated many climate scientists that they responded by amping up the dire warnings too early which then back fired as the status quo no longer even pays attention to the real and compelling science present in the latest reports today being published.
We are so late in the game that it no longer makes any sense to go around spewing out all the doom and gloom coming our way believing that this is somehow going to wake up those who dont want to be awakened. Look at the past 50 years and you can see that being a doom warrior as a mission to enlighten is about as meaningful as a christian evangelist trying to convert an ISIS warrior to follow Jesus.
Lore, you are still very much in relationship to those in denial. They piss you off and this is what anchors you in your negativity.
I am no longer in relationship with those in denial. They for me are detritus. I don't care about them because they no longer have anything to contribute and they wont shift their thinking, they are obsolete and they also are doomed.
Fxxk them and move on because now in 2016 we are in a totally different place then 40 years ago when Rachel Carson wrote The Silent Spring.
Today we are at the doorstep of consequences. Today those consequences are baked in the cake as mentioned on another thread discussing this. There is no longer any point in staying in relationship with the status quo refusing to see this. It is now time for a new orientation.
Consequences are going to be brutal. The correction of our over population is going to be unbearable for those who do not understand the big picture. It will be unbearable also for many who do understand. We defaulted to consequences because we lived in a dream for 50 years. Staying in relationship with those that have been dreaming is not an effective strategy this late in the game.
The new orientation is seeing the consequences as the solutions out of the cultural check mate. Moving through the correction is an act of cleansing not only our excessive numbers and excessive consumption but also cleansing the very mindset that perpetuates this. This century is the beginning of the purge. We no longer need to be fighting the status quo. We have a much better ally. Climate change is an ally. Droughts and diminishing aquifers. All of the very consequences that manifest because of human overshoot are now our allies in solving the problem.
Our biosphere will suffer , natural eco systems will suffer. But nothing will suffer as greatly as the human eco systems. They are far more vulnerable. When you deeply understand this there is a major shift that happens in your head and you end up becoming suddenly more positive. There is no more frustration around beating you head against the wall of denial of the status quo. Change is happening and from here on out humans are going to be disproportionately targeted. The correction has begun.
This spawns positive thoughts and a proactive orientation. IT allows you to see the upcoming crisis and disasters as therapeutic instead of negative. It also awakens compassion for those you have been fighting against. This might seem counter intuitive but actually there will be a huge market for hospice type individuals that help guide society forward through this process.
I fully embrace this vision. It makes me wake up in morning and smile to the rising sun.... those three little birds on my doorstep are the trio of consequences finally putting an end to this madness.
Let go of your relationship to the status quo. They only harm your psyche. Move on. It's time. They aren't worth it and you have important work to do. You cant change them anyway.
