tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post114039719591080364..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: The Big PictureBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1142139065701962542006-03-12T17:51:00.000+13:002006-03-12T17:51:00.000+13:00Thanks for the commment 'aim2know' ( I enjoyed vis...Thanks for the commment 'aim2know' ( I enjoyed visiting your site to see your paintings! - almost as good as seeing them in real life!)<BR/><BR/>We seem to have blind faith that technology will 'save us' but I wouldn't bet on it this time! See if you can get the book I mention and give it a read.<BR/><BR/>It is not technology that is the problem but the wisdom to use it for sustainability. Wisdom is cheaper than searching for new worlds to mess up!Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1141779841822647542006-03-08T14:04:00.000+13:002006-03-08T14:04:00.000+13:00As always you make some good points Bruce. But is...As always you make some good points Bruce. But isn't technological advancement essential to ensure that in time human civilization can seek out new and exciting planets. Like the saying goes 'nothing lasts forever!' Might seem very Star Trekish but hopefully some of our future generations will advance themselves to this level or we are all doomed.Dazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09322865315639286165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1141161272787832552006-03-01T10:14:00.000+13:002006-03-01T10:14:00.000+13:00As ever we are to trapped by our individual and co...As ever we are to trapped by our individual and collective self interest to see futher than our noses - or pockets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1141034237542460112006-02-27T22:57:00.000+13:002006-02-27T22:57:00.000+13:00Our society is falling apart (todays news - 'more...Our society is falling apart (todays news - 'more young people causing more violent crimes') but we choose to deny the seriousness of it - like Nero we prefer to fiddle while Rome burns and just build more prisons. How long before we have some serious talking about causes of problems and think of some real solutions rather than attacking the symptoms. Celia Lashlie is one realist who understands that these are young people alienated from their own society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1141006805769869252006-02-27T15:20:00.000+13:002006-02-27T15:20:00.000+13:00Ronald Wright's book was central to a discussion h...Ronald Wright's book was central to a discussion held with Professor Peter Lloyd of Napier on National radio today.<BR/><BR/>Lloyd focused on the crisis that will emerge when oil resources run out ( oil has, or is about to, 'peak'). The other two problem he discussed were climatic change and world over-population.<BR/><BR/>Our problem, he believes is what he called 'collective amnesia', quoting Wright's book, which illustrated how early societies became victims of their own success, collapsing when their resources were despoiled.<BR/><BR/>Like Wright he is not optimistic about the future.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1140770689457790432006-02-24T21:44:00.000+13:002006-02-24T21:44:00.000+13:00Wright is really talking about facing up to the 'b...Wright is really talking about facing up to the 'big picture' - as was Bill Clinton in his talk at Auckland today about the oil crisis. I guess things only change when it is too late - the message of Wright's book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1140602642885475962006-02-22T23:04:00.000+13:002006-02-22T23:04:00.000+13:00It is always easier to keep getting better at a ba...It is always easier to keep getting better at a bad job rather than having to face up to the hassle involved in starting new ideas badly. 'If something is worth doing it is worth doing badly' ( G K Chesterton).<BR/><BR/>Secondary schools are a good example of getting better at a bad game - just too much trouble to change even if they wanted to!<BR/><BR/>They believe in progress but not new thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com