The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, November 9, 2012

What part of the math is missing?


“Do the math,” they say.

Oh?

So where’s the part of the math that says how far not using those fossil fuels will impoverish the world in and of our time?

How is it they see no need to ask whether or why we ought to be willing to do that?

Huge burdens of sacrifice will fall, more on the advanced nations - the ones actually burning those fossil fuels - than on others.

And more on the ordinary folk, the working people, and the poor than on anyone else.

More on anybody than on the rich, really.

What for?

For the sake of future generations?

For the sake of crowded, vanishing species?

For the sake of Gaia?

For the sake of The Goddess?

What, already?

Total silence.

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