In denial -C.Ng

In Cultural Anthropology, we learned about this case study.  A company was having problems with communication and the relationship between the workers and the bosses.  Instead of trying to acknowledge the problem, the bosses became defensive.  The bosses were defensive about their ways of running the company, even if they were wrong.  This sort of mirrors how we humans act with climate change.

We are like the bosses who become defensive.  We think we are the superior race and we think that we hold this power over the world.  It’s precisely this superiority and this power that we think we have that blinds us from reality.  We are like the bosses because we don’t want to sacrifice our feeling of power and control and we’d rather be defensive about our ways of life… even if our ways of life may be hurting the world.

This section talks about how we catastrophically changed the condition of the world.  From the spark of the industrial revolution to the increasing amounts of technological “advancements,” our greed for more has spiked the CO2 and methane levels to ppms that surpass the Earth’s capacity.

Us. We did that.  What’s worse is that we won’t even admit that we’re to blame.  We are like the bosses who won’t put down their pride, even for just a second, to see and to acknowledge the damage we have done.

The first step to fixing a problem, is admitting that there is one.