Letter
Yes I can, yes I can, said the Little Red Engine
As usual, Julian Cribb presents us with a truly vivid picture of the mess we’ve made of our short tenure on Planet Earth. Gifted the twin miracles of perception and self-expression, a garden of abundance and clean air and water to breathe and drink, we’ve allowed our basest nature to prevail.
It gives meaning to the ethics of the early Christians who featured the seven deadly sins in their theology. I suspect they adopted them, as they read like a universal roadmap for any organised society. Nevertheless, it makes you wonder where we’d be if we’d stopped to think where sanctioning pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth and wrath would lead us. All seven, in one way or another, can be seen as catalysts for the climate calamity Cribb describes.
The question now is, how do we fix an atrophying environment? Or even, is it humanly possible? The answer, of course, is written in the wind, but you can bet your bottom bitcoin that humility, kindness, temperance, charity, chastity, diligence and patience will all, in some way, play their part in any successful future for humanity.
— John Mosig from Kew, Victoria