Our final written warning?

image:Washington Post.

Like some bullying manager, it looks as though we are being given a final written warning this morning in the form of an IPCC report.

We will know the details later, but the general message - that we are riding roughshod over other life on a living planet - is without question. What is in question is just what we are going to do about it. 

Promises to behave better in future carry no credibility. We have known the implications of what we are doing for over fifty years. The empirical evidence has become increasingly robust as we have ignored the warnings in pursuit of some form of mythical ideas of endless growth.

Indigenous peoples, whose long-standing attachment to the land over many generations and who regarded themselves as an integral part of it, have a different perspective. LaDonna Harris, a Comanche social activist, has identified four central values shared by indigenous peoples around the globe:

1. Relationship. As Albert Schweitzer declared," 'I am life that wi…