Reddit reviews Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Just work to spread seeds. Sometimes they fall on fertile ground, and sometimes not.

The way I figure is this: people are going to be woken up by this stuff very strongly in our lifetimes. Maybe we keep up business as usual for as long as possible, but sooner or later the global shipping infrastructure will begin experiencing some severe problems, as easily as the main ports going underwater and the open ocean getting record storms. I figure this will happen by or soon after 2050. (Could be wrong, but that's my guess). But either way, this sort of thing, as well as a plethora of other effects are going to start making themselves known, and this will wake people up more to the reality.

Well, meanwhile, we can employ a sort of strategy here. We can have people who thoroughly pioneer an alternative lifestyle, and make it feasible and easier for an interested person to switch to. Things like going more vegetarian, getting solar panels, practicing gardening or permaculture (that's my jazz recently), degridding yourself, learning about your local ecology, etc.

While doing this, we can work as hard as possible to turn people on to the idea of doing the same. Maybe the vasy majority do not. But maybe we convince one or two people. Who knows. But each person that gets turned on to these ideas becomes a valuable source.

Meanwhile, we can also advocate for causes that further our agenda of making people transition, and also protecting biodiversity. A good book was just recently released by E.O. Wilson, a top biologist and ecological thinker, where he laid out strategy to fight to expand natural reserves until they cover a full half of the Earth's surface. http://www.amazon.com/Half-Earth-Our-Planets-Fight-Life/dp/1631490826. Optimistic? Yes. However, it'd be good if people organized and fought for that sort of thing anyway.

Maybe we can lay seeds to spark a change. But let's be pessimistic for a moment. Maybe no one fucking listens, even when the shit really begins hitting the fan. Maybe we cause a freaking epic climate catastrophe. Well, in that case, the work of people who have spent their lives figuring out how to provide for themselves will be pretty important, and at that point we can work to distill as much survival and ecological knowledge as possible and pass it down to those poor saps who had the gall to be descended from a bunch of lunatics like us.

Either way the message is the same. Work, learn, distill, share, find your own way, and keep at it no matter what.