Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Hurricane Sandy a Taste of More Extreme Weather to Come

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Hurricane Sandy a Taste of More Extreme Weather to Come

Click here to access article by Stephen Leahy from Inter Press Service.

With a taste like Sandy, imagine the full meal we can look forward to: a banquet of catastrophes prepared for us by our ruling class masters who are terminally addicted to capitalism!

Killing nearly 200 people in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and crippling much of New York City and surrounding areas earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy was the kind of extreme weather event scientists have long predicted will occur with global warming.