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

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Climate Chaos Casino: Another Roll of the Dice

Click here to access article by xrayMike79 from Collapse of Industrial Civilization.

The author assembles arguments and data to show how the warming Arctic is creating extreme weather events that are symptoms of a trend toward catastrophic climate destabilization. But that does not deter our capitalist masters from preaching about, and practicing, their addiction to capitalism and the relatively cheap fossil fuels that drive the system. Like the author writes:
...the multiple environmental crises we face are like a multi-headed hydra. Cut one head off with a techno-fix and it grows two more. Even those who are well-read and knowledgable on climate change still hold fast to a techno-utopian future, clueless as to what is and isn’t sustainable.... Remember… it’s the economy, stupid!