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

Friday, December 12, 2014

FRACKING AMERICA: Visualizing the Virus (Is it Worth It?)

Click here if you wish to access the original post from the Post Carbon Institute. 

If you have any doubts about the extravagant claims emanating from corporate media about the oil bonanza from shale fracking, then regard this 1:44m video as only an introduction to a wealth of information from shalebubble.org. These wild claims are another manifestation of the delusional thinking of ruling capitalist elites whose system requires constant growth to exist. 

Those who are so thoroughly addicted to the power and wealth supplied by their suicidal system of capitalism will not hesitate to secure their fixes regardless of the catastrophic effects these operations will have on our climate, the environment, and us. Those of us in the Ninety-Nine Percent and others in the One Percent who are not yet hopelessly addicted must become informed on this issue simply because the future of succeeding generations of our species is at stake--which happen to be your children, grandchildren, etc.
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