Copenhagen: Participation by Australian human rights centre at UN Summit
Edmund Rice Centre director, Phil Glendenning, today issued an urgent appeal from Copenhagen calling Australians to make known to the Government the need for urgent and drastic action on climate change. "We can't let ourselves fall in the trap of self-interested and cynical hard-heartedness," he said. "If we do so as a nation, then it is our own humanity that is demeaned by our failure to respond to the humanity of our vulnerable neighbours."
You know we humans think we are in charge, and are running the planet. In fact, reflective though we may be, we spend most of our time in a wasteful automatic mode, allowing our learnt or unconscious drives determine what we do. We do a lot of things unconsciously or semi-consciously like when driving a car, breathing, eating, or reacting to the buttons people press for us. This is not to mention the immense effort and work done for us by our metabolism, our immune system, our regulatory hormones and so on. These latter mirror the ecosystem services provided by Earth on a constant basis to regulate things like air, water, climate (!!) etc.
Copenhagen: Participation by Australian human rights centre at UN Summit
