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laodan discovered 6 months ago- Civilization ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already? In The Guardian Online by George Monbiot
... the one terrible fact to which our technological hubris blinds us: our dependence on biological production remains absolute. Civilization is just a russetting on the skin of the biosphere, never immune from being rubbed against the sleeve of environmental change. But everyone is watching and waiting for everyone else to move. The unspoken universal thought is this: "If it were really so serious, surely someone would do something?" As the biosphere shrinks, McCarthy describes the collapse of the protagonist's core beliefs. I sense that this might be happening already: that a hardening of interests, a shutting down of concern, is taking place among the people of the rich world. If this is true, we do not need to wait for the forests to burn or food supplies to shrivel before we decide that civilization is in trouble. Civilization ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already? The question appears no longer to know if the great changes that await us are something real or merely the fruit of our imagination. Fact is that more and more people in Europe are feeling disgusted by politics as usual. If you follow the comments on Monbiot's article you are overwhelmed by the largely shared feeling of the readers that capitalism (finance capitalism) is rushing forward without any concern for life.
- Civilization ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already? In The Guardian Online by George Monbiot
