Bestie

I want to be a waiter for a minute. Actually, not just any waiter - but a waiter in the style of the guy in the famous George Best story that he used to tell against (kind of) himself.

If we assume that global warming is a reality and that we have had a significant influence in creating the situation it does beg the question "where did it all go wrong ?" ... at what point on the road to here should we have turned off ?

Personally I love Douglas Adams commentary on this ... "some feel that coming down out of the trees was a mistake - there are even those who claim that the moment we left the oceans we were on a downward spiral" (I paraphrase).

If we retrace our steps was there any point where we could have gone a different direction and avoided this situation.

Is this "naval gazing" a worthwhile exercise ? Only if it helps to inform us for the "decision making" ahead.

It is very difficult to see how. It has been part of human nature to want to get ahead. To do something quicker, or more economically, or with less effort, etc. This is the underlying "force of progress".

It would seem, then, that our only hope of NOT arriving here would have been to deal with the driver that got us here : "progressional force".