OOFFOO debate: an eloquent summation from Dave Hampton
One last word on this by Dave Hampton, the The Carbon Coach.
What it boils down to, to me, is a belief system to live by. If you prefer to give your own magical personal power away, to others, don’t be surprised if that leaves you feeling powerless.
I chose to put the YES case - not because I believe it’s right, and the NO case is wrong - far from it! On another day in another place i might easily be found passionately arguing for more regulation!
Besides, as with all debates, they are win lose - hence artificial. Simon P and I probably agree much more than we disagree.
Not ‘both and’ but ‘either or’ and more!
(thanks to my friend Stephen Stretton for that one.)
Anyway, the state, the government, the law makers, the civil servants, the public, the campaigners, the police, the sun readers, …the tacos*… - are all one. We are all ONE. Everything is connected.
*See one minute wombat video if you haven’t:
http://www.global-mindshift.org/memes/wombat.swf
(From Pachamama and Change the Dream..)
And if we are all ‘one’ then it’s obvious we get a load more ‘bang to the buck’ - from our limited personal energy - from shifting ourselves, and our own (re)actions, and from the wider example we set, than from any amount of hectoring, lecturing, demanding, arguing, and thinking about what OTHERS need to do.
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Instead of asking yourself which view your head agrees with - ask yourself which feels the more empowering belief. i.e. the no brainer.
Tags: Climate change, ooffoo, Random thoughts