An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
You may be right. You probably are right. But you’re not certainly right. In that uncertainty lie a wide range of possibilities.
Next, cynicism is corrosive and demobilizing (ask any dictator how powerful it is). By propagating cynicism, you’re making it slightly more likely that your own negative forecast will come true!
This is why, personally, although I’m tempted to agree with you, I choose to shut up about my feelings and instead focus on the upside possibilities of what we don’t know. Seems like a more productive use of my energy - and at least I’m not making things even worse than they already are.
I know I’m cynical, and you’re right. It’s just really rather hard to look at how this has gone over the last twenty years and be expected to hope for more. At best I can hope for not too much less.
There are interesting dynamics at work here.
You may be right. You probably are right. But you’re not certainly right. In that uncertainty lie a wide range of possibilities.
Next, cynicism is corrosive and demobilizing (ask any dictator how powerful it is). By propagating cynicism, you’re making it slightly more likely that your own negative forecast will come true!
This is why, personally, although I’m tempted to agree with you, I choose to shut up about my feelings and instead focus on the upside possibilities of what we don’t know. Seems like a more productive use of my energy - and at least I’m not making things even worse than they already are.
I know I’m cynical, and you’re right. It’s just really rather hard to look at how this has gone over the last twenty years and be expected to hope for more. At best I can hope for not too much less.