The following that I re-post here was emailed to my spiritual family. The message is a series of quotes from writings that I link below by Charles Eisenstein where he argues that the main threat is not "warming per se", but is caused by "the degradation of ecosystems world wide:"
Charles Eisenstein writes:
“We are in fact facing a very serious climate crisis. However the main threat is not warming per se; it is what we might call “climate derangement.” This derangement is caused primarily by the degradation of ecosystems worldwide: the draining of wetlands, the clear-cutting of forests, the tillage and erosion of soil, the decimation of fish, the destruction of habitats for development, the poisoning of air, soil, and water with chemicals, the damming of rivers, the extermination of predators, and so on. Through disruption of the carbon cycle, the water cycle, and more mysterious Gaian processes, these activities degrade the resiliency of the ecosphere, leaving it unable to cope with the additional greenhouse gases emitted through human activity….The problem with the climate debate then is primarily one of misplaced emphasis….” He goes on to say, no matter whether there is global warming or not, “the most urgent priority is to protect and restore soil, water and ecosystems worldwide.”
His point is that we need to focus on all of these eco-systems, and do what we can, locally, each in our own ways.
He also writes:
“What does it matter, when one party disengages because they think there is no problem, and the other disengages because they think there’s no solution.”
The Wrong Debate | Books
Charles Eisenstein writes:
“We are in fact facing a very serious climate crisis. However the main threat is not warming per se; it is what we might call “climate derangement.” This derangement is caused primarily by the degradation of ecosystems worldwide: the draining of wetlands, the clear-cutting of forests, the tillage and erosion of soil, the decimation of fish, the destruction of habitats for development, the poisoning of air, soil, and water with chemicals, the damming of rivers, the extermination of predators, and so on. Through disruption of the carbon cycle, the water cycle, and more mysterious Gaian processes, these activities degrade the resiliency of the ecosphere, leaving it unable to cope with the additional greenhouse gases emitted through human activity….The problem with the climate debate then is primarily one of misplaced emphasis….” He goes on to say, no matter whether there is global warming or not, “the most urgent priority is to protect and restore soil, water and ecosystems worldwide.”
His point is that we need to focus on all of these eco-systems, and do what we can, locally, each in our own ways.
He also writes:
“What does it matter, when one party disengages because they think there is no problem, and the other disengages because they think there’s no solution.”
The Wrong Debate | Books
