Reading Hot Flat and Crowded at the moment and had to share an excerpt:

“History indicates that we don’t accept large-scale change easily, especially when this change challenges our accepted beliefs. It generally takes a crisis to overcome our resistance. The challenge of sustainability, particularly climate change, has characteristics that make our normal resistance to change both deeper and longer-lasting. It is an enormous system-wide challenge that affects every and every country. It requires sweeping change in every aspect of our lives and our society. It also questions many fundamental beliefs about growth and the market economy and threatens some very powerful interests. All this deepens our resistance. Unfortunately, this means the crisis will have to be large and completely undeniable before we respond. So when the crisis is big enough to force change, it will also have great and unstoppable momentum.”

I know I’ve shared the following saying in the past but it fits the situation too well to not be reiterated.

“Ordinary men learn from their own mistakes. Stupid men make the same mistakes over and over. Exceptional men learn from the mistakes of others.”

Why are we as a society choosing stupidity as a way of life?