tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041210651772740565.post2996600891591686405..comments2023-05-03T11:02:55.871-05:00Comments on Climate Teacher: Climate As Teacher - Or Climate As Mirror?Elizabeth Sawinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06289847900579821685noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041210651772740565.post-35483948116539316792007-02-25T13:54:00.000-05:002007-02-25T13:54:00.000-05:00WHOOHOO! Ain't that the truth sister. Teaching us ...WHOOHOO! Ain't that the truth sister. Teaching us to trust what we already do know, yes, that striving for achievement (personal aggrandizement, career development) is fine but is completely trivial next to someone who cannot afford to eat or feed his/her children and that the fact that all of society everywhere hasn't stopped in its tracks only to pick back up once we're all fed and housed and cared for is utterly inverted, that we all need simpler more care-based lives, that childcare is the number one most important activity of human society and should be esteemed as such, financially if that is the only measure we believe, that no one in their right minds would make money a proxy for well-bing, or use the GDP as a measure of "prosperity" (literally tranlated from Latin as "doing well"). Clearly the health of a society is better measured by economic parity, if one must use financial measures at all - balanced by freedom, though I think freedom is a bit of a ruse. I'd say "dedication" is a better word but then I wuld sound like a fundamentalist.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, yes climate change teaching us to trust, build on, base decisions on what we know about what on a societal level is sensible.<BR/><BR/>That's it isn't it- its teaching us to think on a societal level - lifting our heads up out of the fog of individualismgrowingoodthingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16055154213242033170noreply@blogger.com