Disreguard all the stuff on my Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:12:49 -0500 post
except what came before the "3WD" I had whole bunch of junk below that
should have been delete prior to posting. Sorry.
All,
Part 4- Down to Earth Sustainablity.
A final word on "global warming" and the Kyoto Protocol before returning
to more "down to earth" issues. First what has happened in the
radification process was not only predictable it was good. Good in that
it further raised the level of awareness that all of Earth's life
systems are interconnected and dependent one to another. Good in that by
failing it keeps the trading of the most basic gases of life out of the
hands of
corrupt and corruptable people in both the public and private sectors.
If you think energy trading scandals, ala Enron, were beyond
comprehension at least electricity flowing along wires is to some degree
measurable. Just think what would happen if governments started trading
as a commodity the gases that many living things must expel just to
survive. Oh for a patent on the fart meter. To say nothing of the
fashion statement Calvin Klein could make with one.
In think philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), in Building,
Dwelling,Thinking, puts the sustainable issue an appropriate MoQ light
when he discusses what it means to "dwell".
"To dwell, to be set at peace, means to remain at peace within the free,
the preserve, the free sphere that safeguards each thing in its nature.
The fundamental character of dwelling is this sparing and preserving. It
pervades dwelling in its whole range. That range reveals itself to us as
soon as we reflect that human being consists in dwelling and , indeed,
dwelling in the sense of the stay of mortals on the earth."
"But 'on the earth' already means 'under the sky'. Both of these also
means 'remaining before the divinities' and include a 'belonging to
men's being with one another'. By a primal oneness the four-earth and
sky, divinities and mortals- belong together in one."
"Earth is the serving bearer, blossoming and fruiting, spreading out in
rock and water, rising up into plant and animal. When we say earth, we
are already thinking of the other three along with it, but we give no
thought to the simple oneness of the four."
Dwelling is freedom, "a freedom from....& a freedom to", rooted in the
sparing and preserving of "each thing in its nature." And the most
basic freedom is the freedom to value. As in B values precondition A.
Guess I've "dwelled" on this overlong.
3WD
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