Not firsting, but lasting.
I cant make those sums work for any variant of the way we live in the West: either were going to fix it through as-yet-unknown technologies, or were going to be the caboose, the last part of the human race to live in a sustainable way. Were the last, not the first, and we have to face the fact that our lack of sustainability is a crime and a shame . . .
via Boing Boing.
I don’t really buy all that let’s-all-become-smallholders stuff, if I’m honest. And I don’t even know what a caboose is. I say we take off into space and let the hippies have their planet back.
But it’s worth adding to your cognitive-bias armoury that for every ‘first’ there may well be a more important ‘last’ we’re missing, obscured by the shortness of our lives, our lack of history or something else for which we’re less blameless.
And vice versa.
