Reply to no neutral ground in the burning world
Reply to the "No Neutral Ground in a Burning World" lecture
Awesome and amazing the talk by Ela & Quinn was, I am eager to push this topic even further, by offering you three statements that I did not have time to formulate on the mike:
- remember not only history, but PREhistory too
- "at what price?" did we built the network that connected millions of people in the last 30 years...
- chemical weapons vs fertilizers -- only on the very short term is the later "a good thing" compared to the former
Two most important statements from your talk for me were:
- how do YOU want the world to look like in 100 years?
and
- "... in a Burning World".
However, I find that thinking in the time frame of 100 years ahead is too short; and I find that the Burning World requires even more attention, since the fundamental needs of all life on Earth -- including humans -- might disappear in less then 100 years, and certainly in the next 1000 years, unless we learn from our history & pregistory and take reponsibility over the culture we are living in, which governs the technologies we are deploying and to what end.
