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“the opposing powerful forces at play in this debate are very interesting, self preservation should always win out?”
It will always win! 99.999% of those who are horrified by destruction of the nature we are inflicting on our environment will without any second thought break pick handle over the head of last Koala in whole world and cook it on the fire made of last Wollondilly pine, if chips are down and he and his family are starving. I have many times posted my opinions and have been blasted for it. I’m not saying what’s right or what’s wrong. I just look on the reality of things. After living in three different countries with three different political systems and spending considerable time in developing South Asian country I got reasonable clue of the problems this world is facing and impossibilities of finding solutions under current political systems. But, depside of what I am I’m not hypocrite. I recognise that for me to maintain my standard of living I have to screw up few hundreds of people somewhere in the word to enjoy my good living standards. I’m over sixty now and I got four years old kid. The slogans of “leave it for our children” does fall on deaf ears with me. I have to make my way thru tough times after the Second World War that was not of my making. As for my kid - what ever we left for him he have to make best of it. That’s evolution and survival of fittest.
All of you that think that switching off few lights or developing electric car is going to make any real difference you are kidding yourself. There is something like 4 billion people that will require terawatts of electric power and millions of tones of steel ,copper ,aluminium and the rest of the resources just to get close to our standard of living. And most of that power will come from burning coal or oil. And if you want to have right to tell rest of the developing world what to do, well then be satisfied with your salary dropping down to about $8000 a year with costs of living remaining basically same.
There are many problems for the future and there are no solutions for it as yet. When the things will get rally bad, solutions will come up and those solutions will be drastic. Right now only long term assets worth having is gold, food producing land and energy stocks. Right or wrong, that’s how I see it with livelong experience living in different continents with different political systems.
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