An Inconvenient Truth

WARNING: Written late at night with way too much stream of consciousness thrown in.

First, Al Gore was funny.

Second, Al Gore is right.
He conceives of this as a moral problem.
We find this truth to be unappealing.
Misconception reigns supreme.

Third, Al Gore was wrong.
He has too much faith in a democratic system. That's odd.
He conceives of this as a moral problem.
He requests action. No action is required. Activity is.

Wu-wei: Non-action...NO! Wu-wei: Acting without action(s). No-action is a propertranslation....act without actions - but always act. Activity is proper.

What do Heidegger and Daoism do together to help us deal with the environmental crisis?
Well, they discuss a reshaping of the relationship between humans and......well, anything. This makes them deeply ecological. More importantly; by de-emphasizing a relationship between self/other...subject/object we can infer a de-emphasizing of a relationship between human/nature. If what matters is a dynamic interplay that allows for poesis or "dao" then what seems insightful in human/nature relationships isn't the human, or the nature. It's the interplay. That's deeply ecological.

Heidegger and Daoism also rethink ethical thinking. Primordial or Originary ethics. Etiquette.

This deeply ecological point of view taken together with a new form of ethics provides us with a new "environmental" or "ecological" ethic. That is, if we assume a field of study concerning what one ought to do with regard to the environmental - calling this "environmental ethics" - then Heideggerian phenomenology and Daoist ethics provide one method of dealing with this situation. --sidenote, this one method is the best, because it can fall in line with the strongest metaphysical stances...a stance that posits as its sole axiom, change--

What is necessary is not hybrid cars.
What is necessary is not renewable energy.
What is necessary is not massive genocide.
What is necessary is not political action committees.
What is necessary is not walking.
What is necessary is not recycling.
What is necessary is not saving the rain forests.
What is necessary is not veganism.
What is necessary is not giving money to the hungry.
What is necessary is not liberal use of nuclear power.
What is necessary is not trees.
What is necessary is not lowering CO2 admissions.
What is necessary is not thinking about the kids.
What is necessary is not peace.
What is necessary is not Kyoto.


What is necessary is a fundamentally different way of acting in the world.
To understand...(phenomenlogically)...that you are always already inter-reacting with the world.