Ed Cockrell
1 min readSep 16, 2022

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Ray, you make an excellent argument; but people who call out authority today regarding our climate emergency will be asking the general population to live with less, and to sacrifice the ideal of growth for the necessity of sustainable living. It won’t be an easy sale to the general population until all the havoc of a hot Earth is widespread. Your reference to young people of the 60s and 70s challenging authority over the Vietnam War doesn’t really equate in my mind with the challenge of our climate emergency. The youth protest back in the day was a protest for liberation from a military draft as well as about exposing the corrupt reasoning for the war itself. It was not a youth movement to expose the dangers of unlimited growth. But I do agree with you that minds have to be changed if we are to have a global unity in defining the true challenges of our climate emergency as we seek to survive what appears to be a headlong rush into an extinction event for our time.

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Ed Cockrell
Ed Cockrell

Written by Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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