To: "New York Times" <letters@nytimes.com> |
Dear
Sir/Madam, BP is caught
between the horns of a
dilemma, but I take my hat off
to its chief executive, John
Browne, for setting such a
brave example (How
Green Is BP? December 8, 2002) For BP the
dilemma is glaringly obvious,
but if we open our eyes we all
face the same dilemma: our
dependence on an economy and
lifestyles that are
fundamentally non-sustainable. Of course,
it is not you or I who are the
problem, but the 6 billion odd
other people who live, or are
striving to live, as we do . .
. . Because of the differences in scale, what took just seconds to become apparent on board Apollo 13 is taking years on board Spaceship Earth. But the signs are clear enough . . . Like the crew of Apollo 13, we too “have a problem”: creating a sustainable economy and lifestyles for 7 – 9 billion people on our finite planet . . . |