George Monbiot - The Kink in the Human Brain

"We care ever less for the possessions we buy, and dispose of them ever more quickly. Yet the extraction of the raw materials required to produce them, the pollution commissioned in their manufacturing, the infrastructure and noise and burning of fuel needed to transport them are trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce. The loss of wildlife is a loss of wonder and enchantment, of the magic with which the living world infects our lives……….Is this not the point at which we shout stop? At which we use the extraordinary learning and expertise we have developed to change the way we organise ourselves, to contest and reverse the trends that have governed our relationship with the living planet for the past two million years, and that are now destroying its remaining features at astonishing speed? Is this not the point at which we challenge the inevitability of endless growth on a finite planet? If not now, when?"

 

This weeks Green Thought is taken from the on-line article on 3^rd October 2014 The Kink in the Human Brain by George Monbiot – on hearing the news that in the past 40 years the world has lost over 50% its vertebrate wildlife  

 

http://www.monbiot.com/2014/10/02/the-kink-in-the-human-brain/    -     The Kink in the Human Brain

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf

 

The Convention on Biological Diversity - http://www.cbd.int/convention/