tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post1743684727714359213..comments2023-06-06T10:33:30.689+01:00Comments on The Lazy Environmentalist: Understanding IPCC reportsPolly Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06426446366175195351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post-57418828724542650132007-10-21T02:31:00.000+01:002007-10-21T02:31:00.000+01:00Until people of this planet that we share, do not ...Until people of this planet that we share, do not understand the sacredness of life, the whole environmental movement will continue to be a failure!<BR/><BR/>Everyone seems to agree that we have to cut down the amount of damage we're doing to the environment. But this brings us to a real crunch. We run up against the individual desire for accumulating wealth through manufacturing, mechanized agriculture, trade, banking, and finance. We run up against the conviction that a nation's strength is measured by the growth of its industrial capacity. We run up against the consumer mentality, which identifies happiness with the ability to acquire, through high-paying jobs, more and more material possessions. It's an impossible situation: we want a clean, healthy environment, yet at the same time too many of us demand a style and standard of life that inevitably result in environmental degradation.<BR/>A number of thoughtful people have, however, recognized this dilemma and proposed solutions requiring fundamental changes in human consciousness, in the direction of simpler living and the pursuit of nonmaterial satisfaction.<BR/>For the members of the Hare Kåñëa movement, including ourselves, such ideas are not new. Çréla Prabhupäda, the movement's founder, once said, "Life is never made comfortable by artificial needs, but by plain living and high thinking."5<BR/>We find it encouraging that others are coming to the conclusion that human energy has to somehow be "dovetailed to the complete whole." Although we may not agree with them on every point, we are hopeful that by a combined effort we can progress toward a real solution to our planet's environmental crisis.<BR/>DN 3.5: Deep Ecology<BR/><BR/>Your well wisher,<BR/><BR/>Madhumangala Das. (Travelling monk from South Africa)Lavamatrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07458872507138194296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post-88256204896826109532007-06-18T23:06:00.000+01:002007-06-18T23:06:00.000+01:00Hi inel. No, didn't make it to hear Lindzen talk....Hi inel. No, didn't make it to hear Lindzen talk. I am none too convinced by those who state their case in terms designed to confuse - but at the same time without substantiating their arguments. He seems, from what I have read of and by him, to fall into that category.Polly Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426446366175195351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post-48933009947665912652007-06-16T20:15:00.000+01:002007-06-16T20:15:00.000+01:00Good post. I am pleased to find another Brit help...Good post. I am pleased to find another Brit helping to clear the unnecessary confusion over climate change. I attended a seminar at the IoP on 7 June and wonder if you were at that event too? My target audience is quite different from yours, but I wrote a <A HREF="http://inel.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/sticky-note/" REL="nofollow">sticky note</A> for readers who were asking about that evening, and I would be interested in comparing notes with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com