Discuss: The Moral Climate
27 comments
25 Jane Whitney on Dec 10, 2008
26 Lydia Diaz on Jan 25, 2011
Great article. What I most agreed with was the disconnect that exists between humanity and the world we live in. Our self-absorption has cost us dearly; independence has replaced inter-dependence. Everything is a commodity - and as a result, we’ve objectified the natural world! Our natural resources do not exist for us to exploit them, after all. Like the arts, they are a treasure that we have an obligation to guard.
27 John F. Dunbar on Aug 05, 2011
This is absolutely so. If we cannot break the defense of denial, we will be responsible for nothing less then the destruction of the biosphere as it now exists and the extinction of millions of species. Among those species will be humans, although that may allow for a gradual re-building of the animal world over many millions of years in the future
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Perhaps ignorantly, I was unfamiliar with Orion Magazine until I borrowed a copy from a co-traveler on a “tundra bus” in Churchill, MB, Canada, while looking for polar bears. Mr. Safina’s commentary astounded me for being so similar to the one that’s been going on in my head for the past 40 years since college. Can we ever hope for mega corporations with moral conscience? Just perhaps, that hope is closer now, as Inauguration Day approaches, than it has ever been.