How about a boomerang future marked by ecosystems destruction acceptance?

Would it be possible that our common future might come to be one of ecosystems destruction acceptance? I mean: a future in which every adult has finally come to acknowledge the fact that runaway global warming and manmade climate change are developments that are real, but that the social and lifestyle changes that humanity would have to undertake in order to avert catastrophy and minimize the effects of global warming (along with a whole lot of other most problematic environmental and ecological themes) make it impossible to believe in a change for the better, so we stop thinking about it while we just continue doing the detrimental things we’ve grown used to doing over the past 150 years or more, and try not to think about all possible end results of such behaviour?

The possibility of such a social development can’t be ruled out. — I’m thinking about a future in which everybody’s going to know about the fact of ecosystems destruction, and be damned to talk about how much time it is going to take us to finally do away with all life support systems of this planet? Some centuries or some decades, eh? Depending on where you live or whatever? There can be no stopping this, baby, so go crazy. — I say this in recognition of the undisputable fact that absolutely nothing is happening in the area of emissions reductions anywhere, no matter what all sorts of politicians are saying. They are putting it off. We’ll start doing dsomething about these damn emissions some twenty years from now, maybe? As right now we do not yet have technological means to do it in such a way that it is not going to be felt, and that’s importnat. And doing something about these emissions, hell: it’s an undertaking far too costly to even imagine. Makes me wonder: just too costly, eh? The obvious fact that nothing could ever be more costly than putting the future of all the life support systems of this planet in jeopardy, does not mean that the growth cult will ever decide to hinder or stop it. Doing so would be far too costly in the short term, and it is the nature of growth cult members to be living like there ain’t no tomorrow beyond the next quarterly report on last year’s gains and losses.

Knowing that the ruling political classes of our societies are all kept in place and supported by the same growth cult which is in complete control of all the financial markets of this world, and have their powers backed up by the complete control of armies as well as legislators, I can see no reason to hope that the exponential revenue growth insistence of the mighty few (which is the demand that all ordinary workers of this world are well aware of and in agreement with) will take a hike any time soon enough to avert catastrophic levels of ecosystems destruction. The next couple of years are likely to provide the answers to many questions. It is my fear that all that I’ve been dreaming of over the past few years will come to nothing, because humanity — as a functional whole — proves to be absolutely growth crazy, to the extent of being quite ready to embark on the last lap of this planet’s human habitability, but poised to destroy all ecosystems, knowingly and willingly, and slowly but certainly, and with no regard of science. Why, because this would be the true and rather devilish make-up of the contemporary world culture, and the first basic truth concerning modern human existence: the fact that we thrive on destroying the biosphere on which we do not recognize that human life depends, since that would be a truth way too inconvenent to swallow.

So they’re going to say that global warming is only good for us. When the polar icecap of the Arctic Ocean melts away, it only means that new areas are opened up for further oil and gas explorations and new economic adventures will soon be in the making. Tomorrow will never be of much interest as we shall all have to live to seize the day. Whether we like it or not, that is. As there is nothing anyone can do with the fact that humankind is an exponentially growing species of paracitic apes who can no longer remember what it once meant to depend on nature in order to survive. Modern humanity is in need of food, that’s all, and will try to at least prove me right in one aspect: namely the fact that I actually believe that human beings are quite capable of adapting to a warming planet and a future marked by extreme weather events and widespread climate chaos. — If not forever then at least for long enough to please the oldest (and traditionally most powerful) members of the human race.  What our children will think about it, well, that’s of no interest to our democratic political class who can never dream of thinking any longer ahead than the next four or five years. As for the interest of our children: who gives a damn? Not the 70-year-old CEOs of the multinational corporations of this world: influential interest groups paying their way through the political systems of this planet as a matter of long standing habit and daily routine.

I mean: if it is going to be our common goal to at least make it through the next hundred years without any change of attitudes towards our current disconnectedness with nature, my guess is that the species will succeed. Sure enough: there will be a lot of sorrow, tears and blood, but hell, looking at the history of mankind there is nothing new in that, so. — It’s business-as-usual anyway, and that’s what most of us seem to want, no matter what might be the price.

Now, on another note, I’m worried about the mental health of the millions of people who are in the habit of thinking about the probable end result of the human overgrowth activites of our times. I know they’re out there. Not to worry. A lot of people do in fact believe like I do, that “the human family” ought to change its ways. Not just a little, but a lot. But okay: as I can readily understand that the best thing for us to do would be to make a clean break with the industrial society and start to live a little too much like red indians, heh! I can see why we are most probably going to get our minds fixed on that boomerang which is returning from its roundtrip only to hit us in the scull. And here we stand waiting, ready to head the wretched thing as if it was a football. –