Again re: realistic perspective

In my last blog post I mentioned the idea of how little has been accomplished, relative to what’s needed, since the first Earth Summit in 1972.

Here’s a link to an op-ed from 1988:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/19/opinion/foreign-affairs-the-word-wore-out.html

Flora Lewis essentially writes about the need for a paradigm shift.

The message of 1968 is beginning to percolate into awareness that for the first time since humans evolved, our activity is starting to affect the earth’s capacity to sustain us. The combination of massive population growth and ecological damage is the new universal threat and requires fundamentally new habits of thought. But the message has scarcely been heard. Instead, we’re still mouthing the old messages, in rejection as well as in affirmation.

She was writing at the 20-year-from mark re: 1968. Now it’s 33 years beyond that. The shift that dates from the sixties, the “fundamentally new habits of thought,” are still inchoate.

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

Still inchoate after all these years . . .