Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> It is based mostly on empirical observation. People get
> involved in mass
> action when they have experienced some lightening of the load, some escape
> from a world in which action seems hopeless. Crash, on the other
> hand (as in
> the early stages of the Great Depression, feels too much like an
> act of nature,
> a flood or hurricane or earthquake, from which one can only seek
> individual
> shelter.
Your politics is simply wishful thinking. The Crash is happening. Stop
hoping for better times.
>
> Screaming simply is not a very effective political strategy.
Nobody is screaming here. Considering how bad it is, people are being very
polite. Industrial capitalism has wrecked the planet. It is important to
tell people what is happening, because they still don't really know and
therefore cannot understand. I just culled the following from another list.
This is what the carbon *already* released has done; but do Bore/Gush know
or care? Now enormous pressure is being put on the US government to open up
the wildernesses + Alaska to oil +gas production; that is an inevitable and
predictable response to the energy crisis. And do you think that Al Gore
(the great environmentalist) will RESIST those pressures, in the face of
public outcry over cold homes + gasoline lines, when he's president?
Now read on.
Mark
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>>>>>>>>>>>From the U.S. national news programs this
Sunday morning, the biggest
problem for the U.S. politicians is to decide what to do with the huge
U.S. surplus.
The INCENTIVES INITIATIVE to reduce transportation is THE PRIORITY ISSUE
for the U.S. Presidential Election. The Incentives Initiative will slow
the destruction of the atmosphere. Saving the atmosphere is the goal.
There is no time to waste. Everyone on Earth needs to do whatever they
can to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It is a
known fact that the atmosphere is being destroyed by greenhouse gas
emissions. Human produced greenhouse gas emissions have already
triggered the global warming feedback loops (thawing of the permafrost,
reduced albedo due to reduced ice and snow, increased water vapor).
The ocean ice within the northern hemisphere is minimal, unbelievable!
Do people understand the significance of that fact? Do they care? Do
they understand that the surface temperature on Venus is over 800
degrees Fahrenheit, and that could happen here on Earth, unless we are
careful. That statement was made on Public Radio this summer by a well
respected professor of astronomy at the University of Minnesota.
Many other very knowledgeable scientists at many universities and
government agencies are making similar statements. There statements are
not driven by the profit or motive or politics. These are honest, well
informed conclusions.
The major U.S. agencies (NOAA, EPA, Department of the Interior, others)
have confirmed the fact that global warming is accelerating, and they are
trying to get the message out to the American people.
The American politicians are ignoring the warming, clouding the facts,
and not bringing this critical issue of all time up for serious
discussion and action.
THE INCENTIVE INITIATIVE for the IGNORING OF THE WARMING is THE
PRIORITY ISSUE for the U.S. Presidential Election.
The need for an incentive program to reduce transportation in
indisputable. It must happen, and will happen. The positive nature of
human being will see that it does happen, and hopefully in time to save
the atmosphere from burning up.
The huge U.S. surplus must be used, along with the cost savings of
reduced highways and airports, to provide financial incentives for
people to reduce travel and transportation of products.
The money should go to the people, not the big companies and corporations
who's actions are the primary reason that the atmosphere is being
destroyed.
Jesse Venture talked about his new book this morning on one of the
national news programs. He brought up his initiative of the benefits
for Minnesotans of an expanded Minnesota-China trade. He's planning five
trips to Mexico in October to promote Minnesota-Mexico trade. Who will
pay for the irreversible damage being done to the atmosphere by Jesse
Ventura and the greed of others in Minnesota? Jesse is leaving a very
big footprint during his stay on this Earth. Shouldn't we all be
concerned with that injustice to us, others, other species, and our
ancestors?
There are immense tasks to be done to begin efforts to stop destroying
the Earth's atmosphere. It is not enough to say that there is little
or nothing that can be done. We must try to save Earth's atmosphere.
On my home VCR, I taped the program "Warning from the Wild" from PBS TV,
shown in Minnesota on 9/2/00.
Here is my listing of important statements made by the scientists and
observers that spoke on the PBS program. Clearly, with so many
scientific observation, all over the world - land, sea, and air - there
is no longer any doubt.
THE PRIORITY ISSUE for the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election is the
Incentives Initiative to slow the destruction of the atmosphere, and
the huge surplus must be used to support that purpose. Please the
following direct quotes from the - " Warning from the Wild" - carefully
and with an open and unselfish mind.
1. Dr. Ian Stirling, Canadian Wildlife Service, western Hudson Bay
near Churchill
"What we found in the last few years is that in fact the climate seems to
have been warming, and one of the things that that has caused is that it
makes the ice break up a little bit earlier, so that over the last 20
years we now have the breakup of the Bay on the western side, on the
average, 1 and a half to 2 weeks earlier than it used to be 20 years ago,
and what that means in terms of Polar Bears is ... bears in poorer
condition."
2. Narrator of PBS program on Antarctic
Penguins in Antarctic have declined by one third in the last 20 years.
3. Dr. Walter Oechel, San Diego State University, comments on the Tundra
"a deep organic layer that actually world wide is about 300 billion
metric tons of carbon and that's been stored over thousands of years and
as recently as the 60s and 70s was still storing carbon.
Narrator: "The warming has made the system go into reverse." "It is a
vicious cycle."
4. Dr. Terry Root, University of Michigan, bird observations, southern
Michigan.
On Sand Hill Cranes,: "Because Fall is warmer now, there is a tendency
for them to be leaving about 20 days later in fall."
Elizabeth Losey: "I've been watching birds practically all my life."
Dr. Terry Root: "She gave me 30 years of these data, and now the data
has shown that the birds are arriving quite a bit earlier."
5. Charles Baxter, Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Bay California
"Climate change has been one of the things that I always hoped wasn't
happening but was sort of afraid that it was."
Rafe Sagarian, University of California Santa Barbara, on Monterey Bay
"...fit this pattern of southern species increasing in abundance and
northern species decreasing in abundance."
6. Dr. Stephen Schneider, Standford University, California
"... likely that these are not just random events of nature but
connected to this pattern of increasing temperature which is likely to be
connected to what we're doing when we use the atmosphere as a free sewer
to dump our wastes."
7. Dr. Alan Pounds, Monte Verde Cloud Forest in Middle America, Costa
Rica
Dr. Stephen Schneider, Standford University, California, birds of
Cloud Forests
John Cambell, kept daily weather records, near Cloud Forests
Since the 1980s, Dr. Pounds has not been able to find a single Golden
Toad.
This "missing species" is "probably globally extinct". Many amphibian
and reptile species are also decreasing, eliminating fungus or disease
as a suspect in the disappearance of the Golden Toad.
John Cambell temperature records indicate warming. During the same
period of study, Dr Schneider observed birds moving up the mountain
slopes.
Dr. Pounds, ..."strongly suggests that climate is that common
denominator."
Both Dr. Pounds and Dr. Schneider, independently concluded that, as a
result of temperatures increasing, the "cloud banks shifted upward".
Independent conclusions by scientists:
The cloud banks shift upwards resulted in the birds moving up the
mountain slopes and the disappearance of the Golden Toad.
8. Dr. Mark Spalding, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge,
William Allison, ... near Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean
Dr. Mark Spalding "..corrals that we get on corral reefs are highly
sensitive to temperature. Even a deviation of 1 or 2 degrees centigrade
for a matter of a few weeks is enough to drive corrals into a stressed
state."
William Allison saw "pale corrals, nothing that I'd call bleaching,
and 5 days later it was a winter wonderland, it was completely white."
9. Dr. Tom Goreau, Global Corral Reef Alliance
"In 1998 we saw corrals 1000 years old that had survived 100s of El Ninos
in the past, die."
"El Nino is introducing these temperature oscillation in some places, but
the baseline of global warming on which those oscillations are being
superimposed is resulting in each El Nino being just a bit higher than
the one before, and so even in those places where the El Nino is the
approximate cause of high temperature we have to say that global warming
is the ultimate cause."
"Half the reefs of the world have already suffered catastrophic mortality
in the last year, so we're already at that point."
10. Narrator of PBS Warming of the Wild:
"The term climate change is too bland a concept for what is happening to
planet Earth today." "The whole biosphere is altering." "The warnings
from the wild are a reminder to mankind of our ever growing destructive
powers, and the urgent need to curb them."
THE INCENTIVE INITIATIVE to reduce travel to stop the IGNORING OF THE
WARMING is THE PRIORITY ISSUE for the U.S. Presidential Election.
For specific information on THE INCENTIVE INITIATIVE to reduce travel,
please ask for specific information from Mike Neuman at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pat Neuman
Chanhassen
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