Change Who You Imagine You Are

At the end of last year Adbusters came out with an excellent "Big Ideas of 2006" special, which is well worth getting if you can. But they have started putting some of them on the web. I was pleased to discover that this one was there. I like the exploration of technology and mindset [although I wish it were fuller than this article goes into].

It’s becoming clearer every day that the roots of climate change lie not just in the technological infrastructure we’ve built to exploit fossil fuels, but in the habits of mind and heart created by that infrastructure. For example: cheap gasoline allowed us to rip up the trolley lines and replace them with cars, which in turn allowed the sprawling suburbs, which in turn allowed ever bigger houses, which in turn allowed an unprecedented isolation from community.

In the rest of the article is a helpful meditation on the trade-offs that we currently make versus the ones that we are called by our environmental situation to make. Good stuff.
Adbusters : The Magazine - #63 The Big Ideas of 2006 / Change Who You Imagine You Are: Filed in: culture, climate_change, oil, transport, suburbs, community