[Coral-List] Why do so many people care so little

[Dennis Hubbard]

Ehsan:

My personal experience on this front is exemplified by my back-and-forth
with a former office-mate who is now retired from Chevron. Just above your
post in my email list was an email from him with the following as the
opening salvo. The bizarre thing is that his rants usually focus on US
businesses (and, therefore, jobs) going overseas where environmental laws
are weaker. As this seemed like a direct turn-around, my reply to him was a
question asking why business moving *toward* the US is suddenly such a
disaster. What can we possibly say to well-educated folks that raise such
competing points and argue that they both support their own arguments? Note
that this is a PHD graduate from a well-respected  geology department.

Dennis
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 8:55 AM Ehsan KAYAL via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> It is inaccurate to talk in such general terms (i.e., people), when the
> will of the majority of humans has no impact on decisions with planetary
> impacts. In fact, it is more accurate to wonder:
> - why educated people in wealthy countries continue to look the other way,
> maintain their unsustainable way of life while they, unlike most of
> humanity, have the means of making a difference?
> - why do these people continue to believe in a socio-political system that
> is harmful to life and wellbeing?
> - why do these same educated people ignore the historical impacts of their
> societies while refusing to allow other societies to develop, hiding behind
> global change as an excuse to hold those societies back?
> These are some of the questions one with any sense of fairness would
> pounder and try to resolve.
> Cheers,
> E
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 09:00, Phillip Dustan via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > People obviously love money more than life until they find that money is
> > useless.
> > We are fast approaching that decision point on this planel.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:29 AM Vassil Zlatarski via Coral-List <
> > coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > in the face of planetary changes that will reshape the lives of our
> > > grandchildren?  In 1968, Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger,
> > provided a
> > > memorable answer.  "In the end", he said, "we will conserve only what
> we
> > > love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only
> > > what we are taught.
> > >
> > > -  Knoll, A. H. 2021. A Brief History of Earth
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> >
> >
> > Phillip Dustan PhD
> > Charleston SC  29424
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> >
> > "When we try to pick out anything by itself
> > we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords
> > that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. "
> > *                                         John Muir 1869*
> >
> > *A Swim Through TIme on Carysfort Reef*
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPJE7UE6sA
> > *Raja Ampat Sustainability Project video*
> >
> >
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR2SazW_VY&fbclid=IwAR09oZkEk8wQkK6LN3XzVGPgAWSujACyUfe2Ist__nYxRRSkDE_jAYqkJ7A
> > *Bali Coral Bleaching 2016 video*
> >
> > *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo>*
> > TEDx Charleston on saving coral reefs
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwENBNrfKj4
> > Google Scholar Citations:
> > https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HCwfXZ0AAAAJ
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