\"Our generation of humanity has the responsibility to take up the struggle to
understand the issues and to use our rationality to change human behaviour to
re-create a sustainable and balanced world.\"

You can\'t argue with that.

ok

"use our rationality to change human behaviour" ..... who thought up that load of codswallop?

Maybe it was meant to be 'our technology'?

that does not change human behaviour either, or at least only superficially ..... in the short term, society's mores change cyclically - e.g. using western society, the views on what is or is not acceptable, often if not usually linked in some way to sexual behaviour, goes through fashions, swinging from the prudish to the libertinistic (does that word exist?) ...... music and the arts follow a similar pattern.

more fundamental change evolves over a very long period, governed by the need for the human race to survive, whether it is driven by famine or over/under-population or similar basics ...... when this fails, as history indicates it probably will, humans will die out and the ants or cockroaches will probably take over

meanwhile dow and ftse stage a pathetic little recovery!

She may be talking about changing to a more environmentally sustainable consumption pattern, and increasing recycling. This is what most people would assume I expect.

But she may also be talking about controlling population, which is ultimately the root cause of our unsustainability and imbalance. But has obvious sinister implications if mentioned openly.

I suspect the latter is really on her mind.

which Queen incidentally? ..... is it the one who is forced to act the stuffed dummy for the government, or the one that uses that handle on this site?

queen1 .

queen1 - 07 Dec 2007 00:18 - post 65. SYM. HAPPY NEW YEAR.