Wim
> Please go on with you series of posts on 'sustainability', even if you
> seem -in part 3- to come to different conclusions than I used to come until
> now.
At first I almost missed the "than I used to come until now." but I'm
going to proceed as if I had miss it because that may help gets at
our differing take on people's ability to influence values.
I haven't confirmed it but I think your country signed the Protocol.
Your country is democracy and as a signator that should hopefully
express the consensus of a majority. So the majority of the people in
your country believe that "Global warming is caused by human
activities". But then you go on to say,
> According to me 'under the MoQ' people ARE their values. They cannot
> distance 'themselves' from 'their values' and cause them to change.
So I guess you are saying that people can change the pattern of values
of the gases in the atmosphere, and by so doing may in the very near future
change most of the values of "life as we know it" on Earth. But they
can't change their
minds, their intellectual pattern of values.
If this is the case perhaps you can walk me through how the pattern of
social/intellectural values, called the Kyoto Protocol, came into
existence, and how it could
possibly work to change the values of gases in the atmosphere. Or better
yet explain how this social/intellectual process alters the climatic
data, the empirical inorganic pattern of values, of the past. Because it
had to for your country and so many others to come to the conclusion
that "people have and are causing global warming".
Yes, people ARE their values. No, they can't completely divorce or detach
themselves from them. But if you saying that the MoQ and Pirsig say that
humans, or plants for that matter, can have no affect, no influence, on
values whatsoever you are IMHO off in .. well.. the ozone.
Or, we're all better off in SOM.
3WD
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