Just watched the incredibly poignant “Disruption,” a companion documentary to the Peoples Climate March [happening TOMORROW]. It is only 50 minutes long and free to watch on Vimeo. vimeo/105412070 I encourage you to join the 100,000 expected participate in the People’s Climate March to build a movement…A movement that recognizes the urgency of remodeling human behavior to stem the steadily rising temperature on earth; a movement that challenges the system that runs on fossil fuels, demands perpetual growth, and concentrates power in the hands of a select few at the expense of the environment for both current and future generations; a movement that experiments with the democratization of or power in the political sense and the energy sense. Naomi Klein says: “When you think about something this big, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or depressed.” To that end, Mark Bittman in the NYT suggests: “There remain several possible responses to climate change. One is stupidity: ‘There is no crisis.’ (A subset of this is to acknowledge the crisis privately, but deny it or choose to ignore it publicly.) A second is hopelessness: ‘It’s all over.’ (Sadly, many of my friends fall into this category.) A third is blind faith in technology, as if it were easier to modify the power of nature than to change a system that resists not only radical change but even tinkering. But a fourth is action, a fight to regain democracy (a.k.a. ‘who is government for?’) and begin to remember quaint little slogans like ‘the greatest good for the greatest number,’ to recognize that the payoff for seriously fighting climate change is not only the survival of our species (and others) but a better society” peoplesclimate.org/march/ Also, join in Flood Wall Street on Monday in a collective act of non-violent civil disobedience to confront the system that both causes and profits from the crisis that is threatening humanity. floodwallstreet.net/
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 15:51:12 +0000
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