Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bill McKibben’s must-watch speech to climate activists at Power Shift 2011

It's truly amazing that the US Chamber of Commerce and the GOP can be so aggressive in promoting climate denial in their push to profit from fossil fuel extraction and consumption in this country. They have managed to dissemble the critical argument that we face a massive global crisis resulting from an over-heated planet burning too much greenhouse-gas fuel. The topic was hot a few years ago in the US and now it's decidedly on the sideline of national priorities. We are victims not only of our collectively short attention spans but of a political establishment that does not have the will and courage to change course for the sake of humanity and the future. Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, wrote the first book on climate change 22 years ago and has dedicated his life to fighting with other climate activists to save the planet. You may be tired of hearing about climate change but the problem is not going away. We all need to take a stake in this battle for a sensible and responsible policy to preserve the earth as we know it, or resign ourselves to a future marked by ever-increasing droughts, floods and human devastation. Watch the video and get onboard. Talk it up everyday. Pass your energy to others. Fight the good fight and hope we can get the numbers to realize substantive change in time to make a difference.
http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-04-18-bill-mckibbens-must-watch-speech-at-power-shift

Thousands March for Clean Energy in DC
http://www.350.org/en/about/blogs/breaking-thousands-march-clean-energy-dc

Obama to Thousands of Young Climate Activists: Push Me
http://www.thenation.com/article/160001/obama-thousands-young-climate-activists-push-me

1 comment:

  1. I'm not tired of hearing about it, I'm tired of the guilt and the fear that people are too self-absorbed to save themselves.
    The guilt that my beautiful grandchildren are gradually realizing that we killed their planet.

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