The London Olympics - the perfect distraction from the problem of achieving sustainability

Dear Editor,

Brilliant! Now we have something else - the ideal distraction! - at least for the next 7 years, to keep our minds off the ONLY thing that should really concern us: achieving a sustainable economy and ways of life for 7-9 billion people on our finite and vulnerable planet before a ruthless mother nature does it for us.

In 2012 Homo stupidus will be vainly celebrating his sporting prowess in London with the approaching tsunami clearly visible on the horizon - for those who look up; caused not by a shift of tectonic plates, but by too many people, too many millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires demanding too much (too many cars, too much air travel etc.) from a planet that cannot and will not deliver.

Yours despairingly

To: politics.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk Re: The London Olympics - the perfect distraction from the problem of achieving sustainability Date: Thursday, 7 July 05


Dear Editor, Brilliant! Now we have something else - the ideal distraction! - at least for the next 7 years, to keep our minds off the ONLY thing that should really concern us: achieving a sustainable economy and ways of life for 7-9 billion people on our finite and vulnerable planet before a ruthless mother nature does it for us. In 2012 Homo stupidus will be vainly celebrating his sporting prowess in London with the approaching tsunami clearly visible on the horizon - for those who look up; caused not by a shift of tectonic plates, but by too many people, too many millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires demanding too much (too many cars, too much air travel etc.) from a planet that cannot and will not deliver. Yours despairingly www.spaceship-earth.org