With Climate Change and all, I will tell you what I think is a minimum needed for survival and that is: literally a completely, fully, entirely new outlook on life AND that being FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING and involving all our work-a-day pursuits -- a wholly new way of life (and "full-blown" way of action/work) and a source of wholesomeness and great actions and GOOD:
Every hour/day/week/month/year, etc. you wake up mindful, informed (and get more informed as ever needed to proceed ASAP), dedicated, and completely persistent and consistent in acting for the earth-life-dignity of your CAUSES and related CAUSES. Serious life as pursued will be nothing but your involvement and active-dedication to CAUSES (maintaining rational, workable consistencies, and AS MUCH IN ACTION as possible, to actually achieve or actualize the causes). Satisfaction will have nothing to do with "being easy-going" NOR with typical or traditional ideas (notions) of happiness, nor with any [supposedly] other way of (or toward, or for) "satisfaction" -- "rewards" of life many of you, much of the time, thought likely would come with "freedom" and "general happiness" (as historically thought about) but such will be clearly seen as blatant, flagrant, and shameful irresponsibility of old ways considered not worth even thinking about FOR ANY GOOD PURPOSE or any goal in the world (you will have plenty else to think about and with integrity and dignity AND FOR DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY)(plus, there is inherent irrationality in the old views: one way or others of expecting -- and basically even counting on -- MAGIC). BUT, now, all the old happiness/play/satisfaction/fun in-and-with any other "things" or activities will naturally and rationally and personally come to be seen as that which eliminates true dignity and integrity and any worthwhile (or even real) satisfactions -- now with you having the dignity and integrity of work on AND for your CAUSES. With this new way (for all we see for ourselves and for any decent folk we will associate with), SOON nothing else will will "do"; we will have a new way to real dignity, better understandings, and some true, real, good lasting, progressive satisfaction, and with greater loving kindness and equanimity (as we accept we do what we do and others do as their own best in the same vein). As indicated, the way is to operate (LIVE) IS ONLY in terms of CAUSES and inter-related or necessarily simultaneous or successive CAUSES. Developing and accomplishing (in action as much as possible and necessary) will be ALL for the CAUSES which will be your life -- the "all" of your life that matters or has any implications for yourself or others. And, this is also at least as all other decent human beings doing all major things of working life will know you, and that is how you will know them. This is all simply a commitment to understandings, and engaging in wholesome pursuits (which, AGAIN, will be in terms of CAUSES). The causes will be shared only as well, rationally, and wholesomely pursued through group action BUT may well be otherwise that which is done alone (individually), if that is how things are going to get done.
This is the formula for self-breeding of the species and for any real decency and for the survival of the species itself. I cannot imagine how anything else will be sufficiently adaptive; in fact, anything else breeds ignorance, confusion, chaos and irresponsibility (an easy logical and sound argument to make). (I want to live, I want humans who follow me to live; DO YOU?)
Any new way of life that improves our relationship with the environment will be better than the current one.
Dear Francisco Belmonte Serrato
Very very nice Contribution.
Best regards
Hello Brad Jesness , great discussion to go on I always feel that there is an ethical issue when we argue that: the present and future generations should protect the resources for the benefit of the forthcoming generations, when we are so much aware that our former generations have been least bothered about the critical aspect of 'sustainably managing/ protecting the resources'!!!
This ethical issue is also similar when we say that "developing countries have more responsibilities now to protect the environment and natural resources, when we are pretty certain that the current unsustainable levels of resources extraction and climate change per se, have been caused by the indiscriminate use of resources by the developed countries/ societies for their own well-being".. how we resolve this contradiction? If our younger generations are showing more responsibilities in protecting the environment and the environmental resources, we should be grateful to them, as their actions are not at all influenced by this 'ethical dilemma' that I have described above..
I have 8 dollars per day for my meals (Compare: I "choose" to budget 8 dollars per day while I can afford 80 dollars per day.)
I don't care about climate change.
I care about how to have some food that makes me slightly happier with that 8 dollars.
If you put me into a court for ethcial living,
you could say that I am sinful.
If you judge that I am sinful,
you could make a decision that keeps my budget 8 dollars per day,
and I will keep having foods that makes me slightly happier regardless of how climate change thinks.
----------------------------I actually think this is a kind of loop that sometimes causes revolutions.
6 May MMXX
Please read my THE ART OF SURVIVAL.
Thank you...
Cordially...
ASJ
Dear Viswanathan P K
Very useful information
Best regards
I agree with you. Climate change demands from us a new way of life and actions to preserve the environment for future generations.
We need to have the interest of others by maintenaning balance in the ecosystem.
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