Evacuate the Elections, Please.
We are witnessing climate change right now in America. It is screaming, whipping, surging and flooding in our face. With a gigantic and potentially lethal hurricane hitting America's East coast days before an election in which “climate change” has been banished from the debate platform, it's hard not to anthropomorphize “nature” – as Gaia wreaking vengeance upon her ungrateful children. Wall Street is flooded, 90 miles per hour winds are approaching the land – a warning from Mother Earth that we can't mess with her for much longer without suffering dire consequences.
We had earlier warnings – the unprecedented droughts all summer, food scarcity and sky-rocketing prices, and this last year the continental United States faced record high temperatures across the board. Polls show that Americans are in fact aware of climate change and consider it a pertinent issue for their country, yet none of the presidential or vice-presidential candidates this year uttered “climate change” or “global warming” at all – it wasn't even the elephant in the room (but only referenced obliquely, and once, as the subject matter of a crude joke by Romney in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention). Instead, the planet has been completely disavowed for the sake of fiscal concerns. It is as if the “economic crisis” is being used as a political shield against facing the “ecological crisis”. This is astounding, sad and remarkably irrational – especially since “climate change” has been a subject that's at least been mentioned in every presidential debate since 1988.
When future humans (that is, if we survive Gaia's revolt) look back at this time they will be horrified and confused by the fear and denial that our country showed as the planet exhibited dramatic symptoms of grave illness – where our leaders were swayed by financial power and industry clout, even as they were forced to evacuate cities, even as climate change slapped 8 foot walls of water in their faces . . . even as the lives of 60 million people (20% of the USA population) were disrupted by a massive and unusual late October storm . . . they remained asleep . . . not even in denial, not even afraid, just greedy. If there was ever a wake-up call, well, this is it.
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aramiska
Urgent: Winter Donation Needs
http://occupywallst.org/archive/Oct-30-2011/
Anonymous
we don need no stickin votin, no mon
anrky das da new way vote adbstrs ya mon!
lez riot!
Anon
This, which appears in the article linked through the word "greed", seems like empty ideology to me: "Let’s rectify some names ourselves. We often speak as though the source of so many of our problems is complex and even mysterious. I'm not sure it is. You can blame it all on greed: the refusal to do anything about climate change, the attempts by the .01% to destroy our democracy, the constant robbing of the poor, the resultant starving children, the war against most of what is beautiful on this Earth". Zizek would answer to this: "Remember. The problem is not corruption or greed. The problem is the system. It forces you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process. In the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat, they will try to make this into a harmless, moral protest. A decaffienated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of a world where, to recycle Coke cans, to give a couple of dollars for charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where 1% goes to third world starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after marriage agencies are now outsourcing our love life, we can see that for a long time, we allow our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back." http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript
Anonymous
For the marvelously Powerful Few, this is a super-effective way to destroy lives, cause ever more widespread suffering and speed up the death rate.
Nicodemus
It's not time, there is plenty wrong with the world. That is true. But it is not time for the kind of uprising that you are asking for. It simply will not happen now, it will not happen soon. Unless something outside shoves people to action they will not go to action willingly. These current generations do not care enough, and they are conditioned not to care. Everything you are promoting sounds flat and empty. And nothing will come of it.
Mother Nature
I am trying to eradicate the places in the world that have caused most suffering to the planet its ecosystem and generally most of the world... if they dnt care well its more of a reason for them to disappear... USA you are my first target ...
Anonymous
Gaia wants her average surface temp to be 14C +/- 0.5C.
Any warmer and she starts to sweat and whine.
Any colder and she starts to shiver and shake.
Since we all breath out dangerous CO2 gas, I am doing my part to reduce my global emissions footprint and deadly climate change by refraining from any exercise.
Also, I do not use electricity after 9 pm, and do not turn on the heat in the winter.
I encourage all Gaia patriots to do the same.
Help save Gaia! Praise the dirt!
Anonymous
The world has experienced numerous Ice Ages and europe experiences a 'medival warm period, where temperatures are higher than now. They were growing grapes in England.
All this happened before cars and factories, and when there were a lot less humans on the planet.
So if the ice ages and europe's warm period were not the result of human activity, why do people think that the minor increase in temp over the last century, (which has actually stopped for the last 10 years) is the result of human activity?
grainfed
They are growing wine grapes in england today. So what's your point? Oh yeah, you don't have one -- just a feeble attempt at disinformation.
kopicz
Grainfed, your response is not likely to result in open and honest discussion with respect for others
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