Prof. Graham Pearman, former chief scientist with the CSIRO, opines that "there is a huge gulf between the science and the policy". Graham calls for a new emotional/cultural stategy for behaviour change.   A recent New Scientist Magazine reports on a "psychological  study" called Good Neighbours ...  and finds that ... DEEP down, most of us want to fit in with the crowd, and psychologists are exploiting this urge to conform to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour.  (bit Orwellian perhaps ...)  And then, there's the great Paul Ehrlich (Stanford University, "The Population Bomb"), one of the first to alert the world to the eco-crisis in the 1960s, who says ...  in essence, nothing serious is being done – as exemplified by the 'much talk and no action' on climate change.   Paul too is urging a return to our deep species being and re-connection with each other ... as  the secret to creating a sustainability led culture - before it's too late.  This is Why the Sustainability Street Approach has a role in our complex, multi-faceted challenge to live more authentically with each other and to get along way better with all the other species and natural forms.  We can just let the future happen, or we can take steps now to shape it. That's Why! 

I thought at last!  Now at last things will change.  I felt certain that next morning I would get up, poke my head out the front door and see the world and life as we know it palpably changing.  I'm certain that fear levels are constantly edging up, but otherwise, for these last few years since, it hass pretty much business as usual.

This stasis is a cause of much bother also to the likes of Graham Pearman, former chief climate scientist with the CSIRO and the great Paul Erlich, author of the population Bomb, member of the Club of Rome and a member of the cohort of Rachel Carson, author of the Silent Spring, oft cited as the dawning of the age of ecological awareness and action  ...  or has it been, proportionately speaking, inaction?

See what Paul Erlich has to say about the pace of change in human culture and society ... clickerama hereski

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2009/09/seeking-rapid-change-in-human-behavior