Letters to the Editor
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@RMP
your wrote: "Like you, I do tire of those who spend most of the time doomsdaying and telling us what we can’t do because the odds are too overwhelming."
Well, I am of the persuasion that we have to keep on acting as if there is hope to change things, because no one has effectively shown me that it is hopeles . . . yet. Posts like Glenn's today, though, seem to keep on putting more and more evidence in that corner. I am just trying to figure it out. If one could be rationally convinced that the dynamics of collapse had become irreversible, then the rational thing to do would be to make plans to deal with THAT, and not to keep on trying to fix what can't be fixed. Do you see what I mean? I can see the point of view that they might be taking: look, you are wasting effort you need to put in elsewhere. One might even grow very frustrated with all these good people working so hard to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic when they need be putting things in the lifeboats, etc. And that might drive them to sarcasm or black humor. I can really see that. We're all bozos on this bus.