On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ken
Friedman<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
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> The threads of the past few days regarding the role of design and designers in sustainability raise many good points. There is much that we can do -- that's what I like about The Designers Accord. We need greater skills to do it than we traditionally teach in design schools that grew from the art and design tradition -- that's what I like about research-based education and evidence-based practice.
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> In reading Fil Salustri's note, I find myself thinking of my own position on these matters. I am a pessimist in the sense that I do not hold out great hope for the human race in this century. I anticipate a near-extinction incident for humanity at the 90% level. This is not decimation as the Roman legions practiced it, executing one in ten, but novicimation as only seen in pandemics and genocidal incidents with nine of each ten dying.
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> Despite this, I am also an optimist. I am an optimist in believing that the changes we make now can save that remaining 10% rather than leaving everything to the cockroaches, the crocodiles, or whichever species might be left. Of course, we might really lucky and avoid the fate toward which we are now headed. If we do, it will be for the reason Louis Pasteur suggested: luck favors the prepared.
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> The question is not whether we can or should do something. The question is determining what appropriate action it is we should undertake. Whatever action it is, the appropriate action is always based on a simple principle: acting as though our actions make a difference to the result we hope for.
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start from the basic simple mico level : 'self'
and don't think too much.
Sheds the hair off before they get to turn white.
Time to disappear.
Best wishes.
Karen Fu
*naughty* *incorrigible* *blunt* forumer.
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