The concept of Sustainability and the related fear of Climate change is, IMHO, a product of imbalanced minds, predominantly in the so-called developed nations focusing more on the finite nature of material and technology, where the fear of the future(angst) is more pronounced along with the absence of a reassuring faith in Nature and Spirit's benevolence. In this condition, the individual is more concerned with tomorrow's fears than with today's reality(acting here and now). It is also more characterized by a total belief in matter and material and its absolute necessity for life. This purely material focused objective and empirical thinking has made remarkable advances in technology at the expense of balance, nature and faith in Spirit. It has also given rise to faithlessness, mental illnesses and dependence on prescription medicine, substance abuse( along with Obesity), competition for natural resources, conflict and allied imbalances.
This discussion aims at linking psychology with climate change, resource use/abuse and sustainability, and wishes to find psychological solutions to societal problems, as:
"We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.-The Dhammapada
The emphasis is on thoughts and actions as these determine human behavior and has led us to where we are now, as a collective species. So if our yesterday has led us to our today and our today will lead us to our tomorrow, shouldn't we be focusing on our today's thoughts, actions and behavior rather than fretting about tomorrow (sustainability is actually an imbalanced mind's notion of Surviv-ability)?
The message is simple and clear: Correct your actions now for a better tomorrow. The Now and Here is important than the future and Sustainability concerns plaguing researchers and decision makers everywhere. If there's something urgently needed, its Action NOW. And there's no room for fear of the future!
Sustainability means perdurable throughout time, in this case we are taking about the global and human ecosystem.
It is true that our responsibilities begin now and look to much towards to the future can disconect society minds with the current environmental and societal problems. The lack of land management in developing countries that prevent disasters produced by flood, landslides, etc. and the lack of regulation on environmental issues give us an evidence of the lack of awarenes of the problems that must be corrected now. In my country when a natural disaster produced by a lack of environmental planification and regulation occurs people tend to say the disaster was produced by climate change and not for a lack of environmental management.
In the other hand, climate change also force us to change our way of doing our things. Transformation of technology to a more sustainable seems something that can be achieved. Move the economical system and cultural behaviour seems to a more sustainable systems looks an aims much more dificult to achieve.
Because I think the adaptation depends of how societies will prepare and deal with the effects of the global change, my question instead is, if the climate change become a human disaster, Which cultures will be capable to survive?
"The message is simple and clear: Correct your actions now for a better tomorrow". perfect. It is human nature he do action mostly out of fear!! Everybody knows do and don'ts still it pasted everywhere, telecast and people aware why?? Everybody talk about sustainability which in ideally never possible unless all factors starting from human population and anthropocentric approach of human being not guided to save mother earth. Erosion of Environmental ethics is main reason which resulted the no action or poor conceived action. We need strong, well informed and detail discourse like religious preacher to counter the current problem for better future
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