If you look at the history of what happened to Darwin when he published, what would you
call that?
Yes he was hugely attacked at the time.
And it's often a case of people do not want to give up their cherished beliefs, especially
cherished beliefs that they find comforting.
So it's no good for Richard Dawkins to say let us just stand on the bold bear promontory
of truth and acknowledge the basically nothingness of ourselves.
People don't find that cozy so they will go around the block not to do that.
And that's very understandable and human.
And religious thinking, you know, the idea that there's somebody bigger than you out
there who might be helpful to you if certain rules are observed, that goes back so far.
We probably have an epigene or something or a cluster of epigenes for that and you see
it a lot in small children that there is a monster under the bed and you can't tell them
there isn't.
They don't find that reassuring.
What you can tell them is yes there is a monster under that bed but as long as I put this cabbage
right in this spot it can't come out.
So yes anti-science.
When science is telling you something that you really find very inconvenient, and that
is the history of global warming and the changes that we are certainly already seen around
us.
First of all it was denial.
It could not be happening.
Now there's grudging admission as things flood and droughts kick in and food supplies drop
and the sea level rises and the glaciers melt big time.
I have seen that; been there.
You can't deny that it's happening but you then have to pretend that it's nothing to
do with us.
So therefore nothing so we don't have to change our behavior.
That's the thinking around that.
And that can get very entrenched until people see that by trying to solve the problem jobs
can be created and money can be made.
And that will be the real tipping point in public consciousness in this country.
Other countries are already there.
Norway, which is an oil state, is a huge green country because they know that the fossil
fuel thing is going to run out so they are already preparing for that.
If we were tall forward looking more of us would be doing that, although Elon Musk is
the wave of the future.
He's got the all electric car; he's got the rapid pre-charger for it; and he's got the
Powerwall, which is a home battery storage unit that you can recharge through solar and
then run your appliances off it when it's dark.
And that is probably going to be the connecting link.
When that becomes cheap enough and efficient enough you ask anybody, I don't care who they
are, if you could get off the grid and have a car you could recharge your self and appliances
you could run yourself just off some units on your roof or in your backyard would you
do that?
Everybody says yes.
So that's the idea whose time has come.
And now it's a matter of the price.
So mentalizing the entire world with wind turbines is not going to be the answer, it's
going to be individually owned and controlled off the grid electrical systems.