Freedom is Sustainable

A Short Introduction to my new Blog Experiment

Welcome to my new blog - a new experiment to see if it will help root out some of my long-lived frustrations about american politics and climate change. My blog will contain ideas and pet peeves and maybe even a few philosophical experiments, albeit my philosophical experience is small.

A little thought on freedom

I wish that Americans would finally decide that the status quo is unsustainable, and that change is needed. I respect the philosophy of capitalism, the "American Dream" and the urge to have the freedom to forge your own destiny, but in reality, freedom does not come without responsibility. One of these responsibilities, I feel, is to face the challenge of climate change - and act.

Freedom is the independence of finite resources - it's the creation of opportunities not the exhaustion of possibilities. Freedom transcends time and thus, freedom must be sustainable. For are We really free if our children are not? Freedom must be sustainable, so not to be a mirage of hopes and dreams, dissolving and disappearing as we march into the growing desert of civilizations' waste. What worth is freedom of choice if we do not make the right choices? We must choose our freedom, and rid ourselves of dependence on finite resources such as oil and coal. Only then are We free.

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Andreas Nicolet