Personal lifestyle suggests denial of looming difficulties

Human induced changes to our climate, oil depletion, famines arising from both issues, and waste, along with the increasing difficulties of a booming population illustrate the certain difficulties ahead.

However, like so many others in the developed world, my lifestyle suggests denial.
Many are either in denial or ignorant and some simply don’t care as they live for the moment, which I can’t criticise except to say that we must understand that while present activities might be pleasant, they can create difficulties for those who follow.
Having listened to many world authorities on climate science, oil scarcity, famine, various professors, and read many books written by them and their peers, any questions or doubts I had about the coming difficulties have been erased.
However, understanding what was being said and written, I continue to live as if in denial, but it’s not that as like many others I’m caught-up, or psychologically trapped, in a way of life that has evolved over the past 200 years and has been built around easily accessible fossil energy.This is a pleasant, rewarding and satisfying life, but those of us in the developed world are living in a style the world cannot support and our burgeoning numbers suggest we need to be thinking carefully about our fertility.
Being conscious of and sympathetic to emerging dilemmas is not enough to help our world as it limps toward catastrophe, but like many in the developed world my addiction to the bounty of the fossil fuel-rich world is going to be difficult to break.
Shepparton climate change campaigner, John Pettigrew, has said many are conscious of global warming, but most are unsure of what to do and that confusion breeds inaction.
But, there is more – most of us unable to absorb the complexity of what is needed and so can’t understand where to even begin making the necessary lifestyle changes.
We need to be empowered – our leaders can do that or we can do that and a start can be made by listening to and watching the work of the Tatura Transition Town – more details about Tatura TT from Ross Musolino at sandalino@iinet.net.au.