Ah, a quick corollary to the doing post. I hope it doesn't need to be said that just doing something is not necessarily a good in its own right, but I'm going to say it anyway. The complex of doing that is our industrial civilization has placed us at the brink of self-extinction, or at least self-destruction. Extinction is a strong word, yes, but the radical changes wrought by climate change in general are enough to at least inch us up to the possibility of extinction in particular, eventually, even if such a thing doesn't happen completely.
The initial point - perhaps being made implicitly - was that even by the own stated internal requirements of this particular civilization's flourishing, failure is well at hand; this process of doing appears to be reversing itself. The message is this: hey, look, by the lights of your own stated program, this shit ain't workin', so can't we just do something else? Can we do something different?
There's nothing wrong with getting organized and doing stuff more efficiently and powerfully to live well. But ah, I'm speaking for myself here but I think there will be others out there who will agree: getting a little tired of lighting myself on fire for a living.
