A selection of posters from the People's
Climate March. (photo: (L-R) Favianna Rodriguez, Nicolas Lampert, Collin
Matthes)
Climate Change is
here and now and can no longer be ignored as public demand for action has
reached the tipping point. The largest climate change action in history takes
place today in New York City as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers,
representing over 1,400 environmental justice groups, march peaceably through
Manhattan's streets as a reminder to the UN that their pathetic inaction will
no longer be tolerated by the people ~ but will the people act: Allen L Roland,
Ph.D
For myself, this march is for our children and grandchildren for our inaction regarding global warming and climate change is putting their health and existence at greater and greater risk.
As Dahr Jamail
reports on Truth out
" Given the massive injection of carbon
dioxide gasses into the atmosphere by humans and the fact that large amounts of
methane are already being released in the Arctic which many scientists believe
is already a runaway feedback loop that will add several more degrees warming
to the planet, the current mass extinction event may closely resemble the
Permian-Triassic extinction that happened about 251 million years ago.
During that extinction event, earth's worst, 95 percent of all
species were killed off ".Chris Hedges calls the march the last gasp of Climate Change liberals and points out that
"The Climate
Group, for example, which endorses the march, includes among its members and
sponsors BP, China Mobile, Dow Chemical Co., Duke Energy, HSBC, Goldman Sachs,
JPMorgan Chase and Greenstone. The Environmental Defense Fund, which says
it “work[s] with companies rather than against them” and which is calling on
its members to join the march, has funding from the oil and gas industry and
supports fracking as a form of alternative energy. These faux environmental
organizations are designed to neutralize resistance. And their presence exposes
the march’s failure to adopt a meaningful agenda or pose a genuine threat to
power."
Hedges, who I greatly respect, offers perhaps the only true solution to
Climate Change and it demands action beyond marching for only we the people can
defeat the corporate state ~ " We have known about the
deleterious effects of carbon emissions for decades. The first IPCC report was
published in 1990. Yet since the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol Era in the
late 1980s, we have emitted as much carbon dioxide as was emitted in the prior
236 years. The rising carbon emissions and the extraction of tar sands ~
and since the industry has figured out how to transport tar sands without
building the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, this delivery seems assured
~ will continue no matter how many police-approved marches are held. Play by
the rules and we lose. Resistance will come from those willing to breach
police barricades. Resistance will mean jail time and direct confrontation.
Resistance will mean physically disrupting the corporate machinery. Resistance
will mean severing ourselves from the dominant culture to build small,
self-sustaining communities. This resistance will be effective only when we
refuse to do what we are told, when we turn from a liberal agenda of reform to
embrace a radical agenda of revolt. " See Hedges article ~ http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25637-the-last-gasp-of-climate-change-liberals
Climate change is most certainly here
and now and the people are speaking and marching as they are today in New York
but now it's time for action ~ for there is no change without action and
action always involves risk.
Allen L Roland, Ph.D
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/climate-change-is-here-people-march-but.htmlFreelance Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations at allen@allenroland.com
What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?”
ReplyDelete~ F. Sherwood Rowland