Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s

Author: Naomi Klein
Source: The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date: Sunday 8 March 2015 08.00 EDT
Link: It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s

Stephan: Here is another excellent essay from Naomi Klein. In it she makes the the point I have been hammering on for over a decade. A civilization that makes profit its only priority ultimately is doomed. Only by making wellness the top priority can we survive, let alone prosper. I don't consider myself sufficiently knowledgeable to speak about the entire world, but I do feel competent to speak about my own country, the United States. At this point I would say the chance of America surviving in anything like its current configuration is slightly less than a coin flip. I'm not sure America is up to the task of surviving. The death cult of the Theocratic Right may just be too powerful. The only thing that is going to stop it is if you and I and all our friends, and their friends, and their friends vote for those people who are the most life-affirming options.

Credit: abc.net

The alarm bells of the climate crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and are getting louder all the time – yet humanity has failed to change course. What is wrong with us?

Many answers to that question have been offered, ranging from the extreme difficulty of getting all the governments in the world to agree on anything, to an absence of real technological solutions, to something deep in our human nature that keeps us from acting in the face of seemingly remote threats, to – more recently – the claim that we have blown it anyway and there is no point in even trying to do much more than enjoy the scenery on the way down.

Some of these explanations are valid, but all are ultimately inadequate. Take the claim that it’s just too hard for so many countries to agree on a course of action. It is hard. But many times in the past, the United Nations has helped governments to come together to tackle tough cross-border challenges, from ozone depletion […]

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Rev. Dean on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:38 am

Naomi Klein is great at putting the important facts in order and expressing them in a way that even the GOP should understand, not to mention the Dems. We all need to act now; that is the message, and we all should heed it.