Surviving Capitalism (Not) : New Report, “Cooking the Books,” Highlights State Department’s Keystone XL Miscalculations

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, April 20, 2013

New Report, “Cooking the Books,” Highlights State Department’s Keystone XL Miscalculations

Click here to access article by Caroline Selle from DeSmogBlog.

A new report from Oil Change International, provides new evidence that, if built, the Keystone XL pipeline will have a devastating impact on the global climate.

(Note: The indirect link to the PDF document is faulty at the time of this posting on my website. Here is a correct link.)

If we depend upon the One Percent's government to curtail the use of carbon-emitting fossil fuels, we are essentially collaborating with the One Percent in their addiction. I think there is a name for this--codependency.

The only real solution presents us with an extremely daunting challenge--change the system that requires never-ending growth, and thereby remove this system from the tiny group of people, the One Percent, that are addicted to it and that provide them with the power to make all the decisions regarding climate stability and wars, and essentially everything else. There is no other or easy way out of our dilemma. The sooner we face this, the better our chances are of surviving the climate crisis, avoiding future wars, and other disasters.