[John Sykes]

As a practicing Buddhist, I see the wisdom of Buddha’s characterizing our species as one filled with greed, hatred and delusion, which he did 2500 years ago.  What has changed is that we now can practice our greed with global effect and internet speed.

Professor Ehrlich published a rather stark challenge in his article “Can a Collapse of Global Civilization be Avoided?” which was a hopefully wakening report on a possible future for our civilization.   Many indications are that significant changes are hard wired into the geosphere, with 2C+ possibly occurring by mid century.  These alone are going to change civilization remarkably.  And, without global resolve, generations to come will experience much worse. 

Many people will continue and indeed redouble efforts to slow down this race to oblivion.  And, what influence we may make may not be seen during our lifetimes.  It would seem that while  seeking to mitigate, we must also look far ahead and prepare those to come to be able to live in a far different world.  My question is what seeds do we plant that will enable the phoenix to rise after a partial or total collapse?

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