It struck me listening to this video short about creativity inherent in "human ecology" being systematically compromised, in school systems and partisan politics and most other social systems, that I wanted to blog human ecology in parallel with global warming ecology.

I think all our systems are strangling creativity, or eating the seed corn or burning it up, or some such ecological metaphor.

Haven't had time to do more than get the glimmer of the idea yet -- my car's computer system apparently is in menopause along with me, and not even the scientists here can help me pick out the ecologically and economically best choice for a new A/C system, so I've been pretty harried -- but I hope to think more about it soon. With all the talk about what we're doing to ourselves and the planet in other threads, CK seems like the perfect place.

Then, reading Cali's latest above, I am blown away (again! Cali, glad you are here!) by the difference between how smart women and smart men GENERALLY approach complex problems, and I wondered if human ecology should be introduced to this discussion as something that women are more in tune with than men are? Or maybe something more natural to the typically female way of thinking -- not trying for political correctness here, just to get the thought out.

For me (and to be redundant I am a woman) when human ecology is in desperate need and systemic problems aren't getting solved, it's time to change the systems, not vote for MVP! Whatever it takes. Think of something better, get out of the damned ring, stop being a contender before you suffer irreversible brain damage and do something else with your life!

Bill Clinton spoke very powerfully after leaving the presidency, about the rising global importance of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) and I don't see that as so different from the first President Bush inspiring people to create a thousand points of light.

Anything can be bastardized and usually is, but this IDEA is the right one to me, and it doesn't belong to either Rs or Ds, nor does the responsibility for not corrupting it and souring people on it (as people in both parties are doing or have done in the past, imo.) This just seems to be easier for men to grasp when they can advocate for national protocols for wind or solar power, or debate hydrogen conversion costs, or whatever -- easier than when they are confronted with failing social systems? Or maybe my hot air should be harnessed to run some machines of some kind, dunno . . .