People who know the story criticize in disbelief the Easter Islanders who cut down the last trees on their island, leading to their extinction, while keeping busy erecting giant stone statues.
But how many of those same people are critical of world governments spending trillions to ease our banking crisis while those governments pinch pennies on solving the global climate change crisis and the impending energy crisis, which could both be similarly catastrophic, despite the earnest warnings of the best scientific minds in the world.
Comment by: Steven Earl SALMONY (Dec-20-2008) Web site
If the the predominant monoculture does not choose something different from the business-as-usual course it is so adamantly and relentlessly pursuing now; if the leaders of the family of humanity continue to keep doing precisely what they directing all of us to do now; and if we keep getting what we are getting now, then a likely outcome would be that Earth is turned into the likes of Easter Island.
Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population, established 2001
In 2006 I started building the PlanetThoughts.org Web site to raise awareness of environmental issues, but I have been in the software field since 1978, working primarily on healthcare-related and not-for-profit organizations, but also for some general commercial companies. I have also long been a supporter of environmental causes.
I am an enthusiastic Tai Chi Chuan practitioner and teacher. This helps balance my brain after sitting at a screen for hours at a time, and lends some balance to life.
In early 2006 global warming and other environmental and energy challenges, as well as escalating wars in numerous locations, became central to my understanding of issues that our whole planet faces, and I wanted to do something with my skills to spread awareness and understanding of environment and energy issues, as well as discuss better philosophies of living, for greater satisfaction beyond consumerism.
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People who know the story criticize in disbelief the Easter Islanders who cut down the last trees on their island, leading to their extinction, while keeping busy erecting giant stone statues.
