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	<title>Comments on: Gladwell&#8217;s Diamond</title>
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		<title>By: Jeff Pomerantz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Pomerantz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve read Diamond&#039;s Guns Germs and Steel (which I always want to call Lawyers Guns and Money), and The Third Chimpanzee, &amp; I think he&#039;s brilliant. Thanks for letting us know about Collapse; I&#039;ll be buying myself a late Christmas present soon!

I agree that unwilled ignorance is not equal to choice. But I&#039;d argue that in an era when we can actually study the environment and collect evidence about our effect on it, there&#039;s really no excuse for willful ignorance. Wilful ignorance *is* choosing to fail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve read Diamond&#8217;s Guns Germs and Steel (which I always want to call Lawyers Guns and Money), and The Third Chimpanzee, &#038; I think he&#8217;s brilliant. Thanks for letting us know about Collapse; I&#8217;ll be buying myself a late Christmas present soon!</p>
<p>I agree that unwilled ignorance is not equal to choice. But I&#8217;d argue that in an era when we can actually study the environment and collect evidence about our effect on it, there&#8217;s really no excuse for willful ignorance. Wilful ignorance *is* choosing to fail.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Coming back to the discussion now that authimage has become more friendly, I didn&#039;t say that the contemporary analysis of our problems and of our choosing to ignore our problems wasn&#039;t valid, but that Diamond&#039;s assigning &quot;choice&quot; to unwilled ignorance in the case of the ancient Norse was just not sensible. I do wonder what was going on in the mind of the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island. Alas only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seussville.com/games/lorax/&quot;&gt;the Lorax&lt;/a&gt; knows and I can&#039;t seem to find him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coming back to the discussion now that authimage has become more friendly, I didn&#8217;t say that the contemporary analysis of our problems and of our choosing to ignore our problems wasn&#8217;t valid, but that Diamond&#8217;s assigning &#8220;choice&#8221; to unwilled ignorance in the case of the ancient Norse was just not sensible. I do wonder what was going on in the mind of the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island. Alas only <a href="http://www.seussville.com/games/lorax/">the Lorax</a> knows and I can&#8217;t seem to find him.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/play.html?pg=5&quot;&gt;Steward Brand&#039;s review of Diamond&#039;s book in Wired.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the link to <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/play.html?pg=5">Steward Brand&#8217;s review of Diamond&#8217;s book in Wired.</a></p>
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		<title>By: Sally</title>
		<link>http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/gladwells-diamond/comment-page-1/#comment-1249</link>
		<dc:creator>Sally</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think there&#039;s a lot of evidence that we do know that our way of life is causing great, perhaps catastrophic, environmental damage. We know this, yet we elect political leadership that chooses to ignore it. Bill Moyers, one of our great &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loggia.com/myth/cassandra.html&quot;&gt;Cassandras&lt;/a&gt;, put it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1206-10.htm&quot;&gt;this way&lt;/a&gt;:

I see the future looking back at me from those photographs [of his grandchildren] and I say, &#039;Father, forgive us, for we know not what we do.&#039; And then I am stopped short by the thought: &#039;That&#039;s not right. We do know what we are doing. We are stealing their future. Betraying their trust. Despoiling their world.&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think there&#8217;s a lot of evidence that we do know that our way of life is causing great, perhaps catastrophic, environmental damage. We know this, yet we elect political leadership that chooses to ignore it. Bill Moyers, one of our great <a href="http://www.loggia.com/myth/cassandra.html">Cassandras</a>, put it <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1206-10.htm">this way</a>:</p>
<p>I see the future looking back at me from those photographs [of his grandchildren] and I say, &#8216;Father, forgive us, for we know not what we do.&#8217; And then I am stopped short by the thought: &#8216;That&#8217;s not right. We do know what we are doing. We are stealing their future. Betraying their trust. Despoiling their world.&#8217;</p>
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