But, one thing I do find pretty encouraging in all this.
I mean, really, I do--is that people are actually thinking about stuff a bit, which is a pretty uncommon thing.
The amazing lack of interest in the "sustainability" forum is telling. A year ago the same thing generated a fair bit of interest. By now, those people who were interested or newly introduced to the concept of sustainability have sufficiently evolved to the point that they're actually engaged personally in a bit of sustainability, or at least become very aware of the fact that there a lot of profit based "minimalism" out there. It isn't that there's a lack of interest per se, it's that most have moved
way beyond all that. While many a bit behind the curve are still caught in the notion of green certification and green consumption--it's clear to me that
most have seen all that for what it is and the persuadable public, by and large, has leapfrogged the whole eco-industry and moved into something new. They are not looking to change their lightbulbs, they're looking to change their lifestyles. That's wonderful. It's important to realize that the new ecologists aren't ideologists--they're engineers. And they know that there isn't ever any such thing as a new 2500 square foot green house, that it's outright BS--scale is everything, and that ecological destruction immediately creates real effects. While there's still a lot of vocal eco****erism out there --
http://sanityandsimplicity.blogspot.com/...erism.html -- most people are becoming very aware that we're all screwed and unless we live in a markedly--
markedly--different manner we're in for a very difficult future. Since most of us have learned that our previous way of life was all but bankrupt anyhow--many more are considering things that they simply didn't before.