If You Want a Revolution, Start with a Green One.

[Rick Rowlands]

While reading that news release, it is good to keep this all in perspective by remembering that the spot upon which you sit right now was at one time covered by a mile of glacier and at another time by a tropical sea.  The earth is constantly evolving and changing, and climate never is static.  However the global warming nuts would have us believe that climate is and should be static, and that ALL of the climatic changes are caused by human activity. However when doubters attempt to discuss the issue they are shut out with statements such as "the science is settled" and "the debate is over". 

So lets look at some of these examples.  New Orleans is a bad example for anything since the land is sinking, below sea level and located in an area known to have hurricanes. It wasn't even the strongest catagory of hurricane that hit NO, so to say that GW is causing stronger hurricanes and that is what flooded NO is pure bunk.

In the arctic those people have historically been nomadic, so as conditions change in one location they move on to another.  They have a history of adapting to their environment.

It would do all of us good to realize that the climate changes that are occuring are natural and that we as a civilization should be learning to adapt rather than following this fruitless path of CO2 phobia.  That path is providing a double whammy of needlessly destroying our standards of living while simultaneously ignoring what needs to be done to adapt to the changes taking place.

[irishbobcat]

If You Want a Revolution, Start with a Green One.
By Ted Glick, ZNet, July 12, 2009. "The climate crisis is also a fundamental justice issue. Who is it that is being hit first and hardest as the world begins to experience the negative impacts of a hotter world? It is the people who did the least to cause it, low-income people and people of color. It is Black people in the 9th Ward in New Orleans who lived in the neighborhoods least protected from a strong hurricane. It is Indigenous people in the Arctic where the ice and permafrost are melting, villages are collapsing into the ever-rising ocean waters and hunters are experiencing an unstable and weakening ice. It is residents of islands in the South Pacific where rising seas are threatening to displace entire nations from their historic homelands going back thousands of years... There is a growing and interconnected, international grassroots climate movement that is planning for action in scores of countries all around the world this fall, beginning on October 24th (www.350.org) and continuing with other actions leading up to and during the Copenhagen climate conference in December. This movement has been steadily developing since 2005. It is a hopeful development and a concrete indicator of the potential for the climate issue to galvanize and advance an independent progressive movement that puts climate justice issues at its center... 
"Everyone is affected by this issue. Some are affected more by it and are suffering and will suffer earlier and more seriously, but this is an issue that ultimately affects us all. 75% of U.S. Americans understand that global warming is real and that we need to shift away from the use of fossil fuels. People are experiencing the changes in weather patterns in their daily life... On an individual level, appreciating, connecting to and learning from the natural world is an essential aspect of how new women and new men can emerge who are able to give leadership within a 21st century revolutionary process. There are many things that make good revolutionaries: an ability to listen, a sensitivity to human suffering, an understanding of history and economics, basic organizing skills, a commitment to development of new leadership, self-motivated discipline, a willingness to sacrifice for others. Many of these qualities are enhanced by a personal connection to the many other life forms with whom we share this planet Earth." Ted Glick is the Policy Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and is a co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition. These views are his own.
To help save the planet, we must go green!
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
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