Nature is a language, can't you read?
The Smiths  In contemplating the damage wrought by the southern California wildfires, few media commentators have resisted the urge to...
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"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."
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About The Honest Sustainability Project
We face the sober reality that international efforts to avert environmental catastrophe, will not be enough. Yet the best of the human experience can still survive - in the minds of our successors or in the minds of descendants of human survivors,
Back in the 2010s, I’d have a ready response for those who’d regard my two-litre engine vehicle, hear of my carnivore diet; my annual air miles, and accuse me of doing more than was conscionable to accelerate us all to the end of life and the end of the planet itself. In response I would accuse these people of solipsism, arrogance, even ignorance.
Solipsism, because when they spoke of the end of life, they’d really mean human life. Arrogance because they believed human actions might have a fatal impact on Earth itself. Ignorance because they knew little of the Earth’s resilience – about how in between multiple ice ages, magnetic pole
flips, asteroid impacts, and challenges greater than the forthcoming, self-inflicted environmental catastrophes, she has recovered time and again to play host to millions of different life forms.
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