[Paleopsych] [Fwd: Fears For A Finite Planet - The Climate Crisis]

[Christian Rauh]

Well, when people give me a 2065 deadline for the cost to get over 
benefit then things start to get real in my mind.

Is there any research on how far into the future a cost must be 
perceived for people to take actions? Maybe in the smoking cessation 
literature?

Christian

Steve Hovland wrote:

> Another front where the Limbics are
> starting to gain ground against the
> Reptilians :-)
> 
> Steve Hovland
> www.stevehovland.net
> 
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> From:	Christian Rauh [SMTP:christian.rauh at uconn.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:23 AM
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Fears For A Finite Planet - The Climate Crisis
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:50:13 +0000 (UT)
> From: Medialens Media Alert Precis <noreply at medialens.org>
> To: Christian Rauh <christian.rauh at uconn.edu>
> 
> MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
> 
> February 16, 2005
> 
> 
> MEDIA ALERT: FEARS FOR A FINITE PLANET
> 
> Rampant Corporate Globalisation And The Climate Crisis
> 
> "Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process that 
> is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and generations 
> beyond them. They will justifiably sit in judgment on our failure to 
> have prevented its devastating consequences knowing that we chose to 
> look the other way." (Mayer Hillman, environmentalist and author)
> 
> 
> A Fat Cat Laments
> 
> The audacity of corporate propaganda still has the capacity to make us 
> gasp. Consider the astonishing attack on nongovernmental organisations 
> launched at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by 
> Sir Digby Jones, director general of the Confederation of Business 
> Industry. "The pendulum is swinging too far in favour of the NGOs", 
> Jones claimed. "The World Economic Forum is caving in to them. Davos has 
> been hijacked by those who want business to apologise for itself."
> 
> According to Jones, business is the only route to cleaner water, better 
> healthcare, better education and better roads. "Have I heard that in 
> Davos? Have I hell. We have heard how we are greedy and how we pollute, 
> and how we have got to help Africa. But a celebration of business? No."
> 
> Jones is "fed up with business being characterised as greedy". He goes 
> on: "Has anybody ever thought about the greed of the consumer? The 
> consumer consistently wants more for less and business is expected to 
> deliver it." (Larry Elliott 'CBI chief claims Davos hijacked by NGOs', 
> The Guardian, January 31, 2005)
> 
> For the World Economic Forum to be "caving in" under the onslaught of 
> grassroots groups really must feel like the end of the world to those 
> who like to shape the planet's affairs in their own narrow interests.
> 
> But Jones's concern is misplaced. The legal obligation to shareholders 
> to maximise profits in pursuit of endless economic growth, even as the 
> finite planet groans, does face a real obstacle. Namely, that the wealth 
> generated by global capitalism - shared ever more unequally in society - 
> is rapidly being overtaken by the damage that the system itself is 
> wreaking. If existing trends continue, the Global Commons Institute 
> estimates that damages due to climate change will actually exceed global 
> GDP by 2065. (http://www.gci.org.uk/papers/env_finance.pdf)
> 
> Global capitalism has an inbuilt death wish that will likely take most 
> of us with it - if we let it.
> 
> To read the rest of this alert, please go to:
> 
> http://www.medialens.org/blog/index.htm
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> The Editors
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