Rethink the future or die - simple? Not!

It's not simple because we have convinced ourselves that we are above nature and besides "we" don't want to change the way we live - ever!

clipped from www.inthesetimes.com Rethinking the Future Fossil fuels can’t last forever. A new book plans for a world without them. By Mike Lynn The inevitable decline of the world's fossil fuel supplies will push gas prices up. One needn't accept the direst of Holmgren's scenarios to see the wisdom in rethinking our assumptions about the future. Share   Digg del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine The human mind almost seems hard-wired to expect the future to resemble the past. While this may be an artifact of our evolutionary history that served our ancestors well, in the complex and rapidly changing world we have created, it could prove a fatal blind spot.