e.wenzel@ens.gu.edu.au <eberhardw@plato.ens.gu.edu.au> asks:
> David,
>
> > Sustainability is not a tough-love law of nature -- it's a bunch of
whiners
> > settling for third best.
>
> Fine with me, if you look at the topic this way. But what are your
children and
> grand-children think of someone who considered people concerned with
ecological
> and economic crises on a never before seen level as "a bunch of whiners
> settling for the third best".
I have no problem with "people concerned with ecological and economic
crises on a never before seen level", of whom I am one.
The whiners are the ones who have taken one look at the situation and
decided it's hopeless.
-dlj.