Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
If it is wrong to think in terms of data and quantitative analysis, what alternative mode of thinking is he suggesting?
It seems to me the best available as well, but I don't know how serious anyone really was on agreeing to targets. The alternative to trying to set hard limits (or incentives that reach them like carbon taxes etc.), is I suppose hoping for that techno fix, that alternatives to fossil fuel ramp up fast enough and work well enough to save us, and certainly money could in theory be poured into that hope, to developing and researching alternatives further. A long shot for sure.

Hoping for universal spiritual transformation is an *even* longer shot than that, I mean what is the history of that, it never has really happened universally, and do we have time anyway? But a more pragmatic ethical awareness? I don't know. I don't think that's wrong. It's little more than: we are ethically responsible to the future. But what if people are too busy surviving to contemplate that? And you've reached the cr@ppy conditions under which much of mankind lives I'm afraid.