No amount of logical reasoning, legal argumentation, or ethical axiology will solve a problem that is misunderstood.
Alan R. Drengson (1934–2022) was a Canadian philosopher.
Used by William Rees in a CaCOR Live presentation, https://canadiancor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Obsolescent-brains-Rees-at-CACoR-5-Feb-2025.pdf
Dr. Rees’ following slide:
Consider this two-pronged ‘problem’
➢ Modern techno-industrial society is in gross ecological overshoot. Left unattended, overshoot is a terminal condition.
➢ The world is simultaneously experiencing the erosion of civil society in many countries, expanding regional, conflicts, and escalating geopolitical instability.
➢ With the latter comes a withering of capacity to respond effectively to either overshoot or possible civilizational collapse.
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