Comments on: WIRED - Attention Environmentalists… http://www.ryanleech.com/blog/2008/06/05/wired-attention-environmentalists/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:37:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ryan Leech http://www.ryanleech.com/blog/2008/06/05/wired-attention-environmentalists/#comment-415 Ryan Leech Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:50:34 +0000 http://www.ryanleech.com/blog/?p=104#comment-415 Thanks for the comments Max, good analogies. The issues are deep, and many of the answers we are frantically trying to find 'out there' will only surface when our interior world view has shifted away from this 'teenage' mindset our culture as a whole prescribes to... Thanks for the comments Max, good analogies. The issues are deep, and many of the answers we are frantically trying to find ‘out there’ will only surface when our interior world view has shifted away from this ‘teenage’ mindset our culture as a whole prescribes to…

]]> By: Max http://www.ryanleech.com/blog/2008/06/05/wired-attention-environmentalists/#comment-414 Max Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:22:48 +0000 http://www.ryanleech.com/blog/?p=104#comment-414 Good commentary on a piece of journalism that was clearly aiming to shock with its counter-culture message. Ultimately, single-minded solutions (ie: cut carbon at any cost) of this kind are doomed to fail as the problems we face are not single-cause. That sort of thinking leads to "I want a pill to make me slim" and "This bike/shirt/calculator will solve my problems" type thinking that leads only to failure and disappointment. PS - there are a lot of solar panels in China. Good commentary on a piece of journalism that was clearly aiming to shock with its counter-culture message. Ultimately, single-minded solutions (ie: cut carbon at any cost) of this kind are doomed to fail as the problems we face are not single-cause. That sort of thinking leads to “I want a pill to make me slim” and “This bike/shirt/calculator will solve my problems” type thinking that leads only to failure and disappointment.

PS - there are a lot of solar panels in China.

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