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POPSAvatar, not Ed, will make the case on climate The DVD is on order! It seems that the film can also influence rather skeptical adults, too. It's not whether climate change is man made, or not. It is the whole process of the destruction of eco-systems causing extinctions and suffering amongst those 'non human persons' who had lived there. The issue is one of morality, not science.
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POPSPostcard from a Tipping Planet During the current review, we are doing to our Clipmarks Clipbase under the headings of Energy and Climate, I found this item clipped in June 2008. It was very freaky then. It is even more so now after Nohopeinhagan. All we can do is love nature and each other in the time there is left ... which is what we should have been doing all along! Surely, it is better to be aware of the risks, than to ignore them. The 2008 IPCC projections which this cartoon is based were much more optimistic than current estimates because the rate of acceleration of both emissions and climate heating was underestimated (and probably still is).
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POPS10:10 - The time for action If people cut 10 per cent CO2 emissions a year for five years ... I wonder whether the first 10 per cent is the most difficult, and it then becomes easier. Or is it the other way around? Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this kind of activity that government and its bureaucracies become increasingly irrelevant.
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POPSSir Richard Branson: the airline owner on his new war What a w*nker! If he was serious, he would sell his airlines and invest in cool trans-Atlantic liners, as I tried to suggest to him in the early 90s. He could still make a lot of money, even now, if he moved fast, with his undisputed ability to market and self-promote.
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POPSSelling a low-carbon life just got harder "Everything to play for". Well, people need a bit of coherence in order to understand. For example, the consequences of a "healthy" economic recovery will certainly be another sharp increase in CO2 emissions. What should we do? That would be the start of some coherent, non-hypocritical policy making. Start by asking real open questions, and do not think you know the answers in advance. Then use some natural intelligence to look for other pertinent questions before entering into an open inquiry.
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POPSHeaven and Nature May the force be with us. Or more like, let us be with the force. The great wave of the Tao, even as it breaks. Time to start surfing.
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POPSDismal outcome at Copenhagen fiasco If that scion is business, The Financial Times, sounds as angry about Nohopenhagen, as any of the protesters who were literally left out in the cold, then it is time to take notice! President Obama seems to have taken the red pill. I wonder whether he took it before he was elected, or was forced to do so afterward.
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POPSWhy Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages It's a hard truth to face. Without the food, the population will not continue to grow. As babies starve, then people will have fewer of them, and the population will decline. As for the science having another green revolution up its sleeve, it is in way over its head. GM has proved very disappointing when it come to increasing yields.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPS2010 could be warmest year on record (1) Nobody talks about consciousnes change leading to a new way of understanding what wealth means beyond the very basics of survival. If everyone just did everything they could to assist in the grand project of helping to heal nature which (some) people have harmed so grievously, then there may be a chance. All real wealth is co-owned and co-created by all life and the planet for the mutual benefit of all the stakeholders, both human and non-human. What is required is no more (and no less) than to redefine the purpose of life.
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POPSWhy We Find it so Hard to Act Against Climate Change (2) Be the change. Jump out of the industrial mindset, first. The rest becomes an adventure with no certain outcome. In my experience, the journey is fun and rewarding. See www.worldwidewood.wordpress.com to see an example. Updates coming soon on Amplify.
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POPSDominic Lawson: Roll up, roll up for the great Copenhagen emissions-fest And that's not counting the media flying in from everywhere. The very concept that politicians have the power to restrict climate change to 2C or 3C is as absurd as waving a magic wand. No wonder many people are skeptical about what they are doing. It doesn't change the sad facts of glacier melting, water poisoning, mass extinction, deforestation etc.etc. which are the direct consequences of industrial civilisation.
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POPSBreak-in targets [Canadian] climate scientist The Canadian authorities are controlled by Stephen Harper's government -- climate change deniers in the Bush mode. Who are really behind these people? Holy rollers? Oil companies? Is it something to do with psychology of greed?
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POPSIs Canada Criminally Negligent on Climate Policy? So the Canadian government is breaching its own Laws on two counts: 1) High Treason, 2) Criminal Negligence. See yesterday's Clip: Alberta Tar Sands make Canada a Climate Criminal - http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2009/12/02/albertas-tar-sands-make-canada-a-climate-criminal/.
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POPSAlberta's Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal I became so worked up about Canada's tar sands policy that I made a short video, 'STAND ON GUARD, O CANADA: Treason and Ecocide in the tar sands' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgBGwsLILic. There is original music, too. Please pass it around. Resist Canada's criminal government. Organise Canadian flag burnings.
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POPSBrazilian president says 'gringos' must pay to protect Amazon Lula must know that the "rich" nations can't pay because they are bankrupt, and would not pay, even if they could. The Chinese can and will pay for rainforest to be cut down to grow soy and meat to feed their own population whose agricultural potential is being decimated by climate change and industrialisation.
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POPSBottleneck by William Catton - A Review I agree, too. This collection of Clips provides ample evidence. However, waking up to this reality does require a significant change in human consciousness, the meaning of life etc.. Note the intellectual calibre of persons now enterntaining such ideas. Indeed, this view must be held by most biologists and climate scientists.
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