The Speed of Change

I’ve been busy with many things in my life and remiss in writing. I observed to someone recently, “Keep your day job, You will be much less busy than you will be later in retirement”. The Canadian orchestral conductor, Boris Brott, observed in an interview that he would not want to ever retire. Sadly he did not, when he died in a hit and run accident.

I don’t have paid employment, but I have lots of it in volunteer and self -imposed places. Reading and other kinds of writing do take up time. And reading gives me my best posts - not original at all, but thought provoking. Here is one from Larry Rasmussen’s Earth Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key.

“Anyone born in 1936 and still alive in 2003 (I was for both ) was around for 97.5 percent of all the oil ever pumped and burned. In the prodigious half-century from 1950 to 2000 the global consumer economy produced, transported and consumed as many goods and services as throughout the entirety of prior history.”

What is enough is a question that has been asked before. The Limits to Growth, the Report of the Club of Rome was published in 1972. Forty years later we still avoid it. Rassmussen does not let us off the hook. He’s asking for changes based on the faiths we have inherited which asks things of us. I’ll be quoting more from him in the future.