Comments on: Plinth of Darkness http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:34:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: huttonian http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/#comment-3182 huttonian Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:55:49 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=820#comment-3182 Currently a Scotsman on the plinth. Wise when wearing a kilt? Currently a Scotsman on the plinth. Wise when wearing a kilt?

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/#comment-3178 disgruntled Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:39:03 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=820#comment-3178 I was tempted but I think it would end in divorce... I was tempted but I think it would end in divorce…

]]> By: huttonian http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/#comment-3176 huttonian Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:35:01 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=820#comment-3176 Are you going to register? Are you going to register?

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/#comment-3173 disgruntled Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:26:29 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=820#comment-3173 Gaia was okay as a metaphor. Not so sure it should be taken beyond that. I'm optimistic - because I have to be - that we'll be ingenious enough to find ways to salvage something before it's entirely too late, but I wouldn't want to be living somewhere low-lying and prone to flooding in the next few decades... Gaia was okay as a metaphor. Not so sure it should be taken beyond that. I’m optimistic – because I have to be – that we’ll be ingenious enough to find ways to salvage something before it’s entirely too late, but I wouldn’t want to be living somewhere low-lying and prone to flooding in the next few decades…

]]> By: R::B http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/plinth-of-darkness/#comment-3171 R::B Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:08 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=820#comment-3171 Thanks for the tip-off. This was a well-spent hour! I like the point he made about being too optimistic to agree with James Lovelock. I wouldn't say I find myself being optimistic about the Western world's ability to suddenly stop behaving like a spoilt child but, like Bookchin said about Ehrlich and the other neo-Malthusians, we shouldn't surrender to "the tyranny of the status quo" - I love that phrase - nor fall for the remystification of the natural sciences. It isn't a great leap from the Gaia thing to just blaming the forced climate change issue on some angry deity that lives in the clouds. Thanks for the tip-off. This was a well-spent hour! I like the point he made about being too optimistic to agree with James Lovelock.

I wouldn’t say I find myself being optimistic about the Western world’s ability to suddenly stop behaving like a spoilt child but, like Bookchin said about Ehrlich and the other neo-Malthusians, we shouldn’t surrender to “the tyranny of the status quo” – I love that phrase – nor fall for the remystification of the natural sciences.

It isn’t a great leap from the Gaia thing to just blaming the forced climate change issue on some angry deity that lives in the clouds.

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