Latest comments posted about Two snow crises, three decades apart on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1713-Two-snow-crises-three-decades-apart http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1713-Two-snow-crises-three-decades-apart letter to the editor Chapel Hill (NC) Newspaper June 11, 2008 Solutions exist if we apply the science. PART 1 Humankind is surely experiencing the fulfillment of a Chinese proverb: "We live in interesting times." Many of our brilliant scientists report that God is a delusion. On the other hand, intuitive and gifted believers regularly tell us that these scientists themselves suffer from a form of delusional atheism. No one knows, I suppose, which of these groups is correct. I am one of those people who believes the family of humanity can use God's gift of science to take the measure of any global challenge and find solutions that are consonant with universal values. But, before we can move forward to reasonably address and sensibly overcome a challenge to human wellbeing and environmental health such as global warming, that challenge needs to be openly acknowledged and widely discussed. I suppose it is a function of my life experience to suggest that we accurately "diagnose" whatever the challenge is before proceeding to implement "treatment" options. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:48:49 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7493 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7493 Are many too many leaders of the global political economy spurning their moral obligations by turning a blind eye to human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and drastically degrading the environs of our planetary home? The Earth is being ravaged; but it appears too many politicians, CEOs and institutional executives are willfully refusing to acknowledge what is happening. Because the emerging global challenges that could soon be confronted by humanity appear to so many responsible, able and courageous scientists to be human-induced, many of our political leaders and economic powerbrokers have evidently been eschewing unwelcome responsibilities and unexpected duties which must be assumed now if life as we know it and the integrity of Earth are to be preserved for our children and coming generations. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:19:08 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7075 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7075 This doesn't seem like the first time that the same type of environmental disaster re-occurs in different locations. Is this purely a coincidence or not? Just like the pollution and ecological destruction brought by rapid economic growth, can mankind evade it? Or merely study how to react to it? Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:34:03 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7061 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7061 Perhaps leadership in our time has too often chosen to ignore whatsoever is somehow real in order to believe whatever is politically convenient, economically expedient, socially agreeable, religiously tolerated and culturally prescribed. When something real directly conflicts with what leaders wish to believe, that reality is denied. It appears that too many leaders are content to hold tightly to widely shared and consensually validated specious thinking when it serves their personal interests. Is humanity once again finding life as we know it dominated by a modern Tower of Babel called economic globalization? That is, has human thinking, judging and willing become so egregiously impaired by our idolatry of the artificially designed, manmade, global political economy that we cannot speak intelligibly about anything else except economic growth and profits without sounding like blithering idiots? Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001 http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:33:58 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7058 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7058 From my humble perspective, many leaders of the global political economy are turning a blind eye to human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and dangerously degrading the environs of our planetary home. The Earth is being ravaged; but it appears many leaders are willfully refusing to acknowledge what is happening. Because the emerging global challenges that could soon be presented to humanity appear to so many fine scientists as human-induced, leaders have responsibilities to assume and duties to perform, ready or not, like them or not. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:32:52 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7057 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7057 Something is happening that many too many people appear not to be seeing, I suppose. Scientific evidence is springing up everywhere that indicates the massive and pernicious impact of the human species on the limited resources of Earth, its frangible ecosystems and life as we know it. Guided by mountains of carefully and skillfully developed research regarding climate change, top rank scientists like Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Hans J. Schellnhuber and Dr. Christopher Rapley issued a Climate Code Red emergency declaration this month to leaders of governments and to the family of humanity proclaiming the necessity for open discussion and action by politicians and economic powerbrokers. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:30:55 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7056 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7056 The Chinese reaction to the snowstorms shows just how much people can cope with; something moaning Brits should remember next time the commute home takes an extra hour due to "leaves on the line". Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:09:03 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7054 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1713#comment-7054