a) Imagine it would be possible to turn back the clock a hundred years. What do you think we would do differently?
b) We are naturally not able to turn the clock back, but we can learn from the past. What kind of information does the past reveal?
a) We would prevent the World Wars and we would use our ressources carefully.
b) The past can show us, that every crisis began with greed. Human beings stop to decide rationally if they see huge profit. We have to think about this and it's necessary to stay modest.
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Date: 26. of May 2009 | By: Urs
Concerning answer b): It's maybe a bit too hard to reduce every crisis to greed. As additional causes for the problem of climate change I would add ignorance and lacking infrastructure - in the past and today. Many people were not informed well about climate change, and sometimes you just need a certain infrastructure such as public transport to protect the planet. That's why the combination of education and the development of better infrastructures is so important.