We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Connecting the dots between 'Frankenstorm' and global warming as extreme weather becomes the new norm

Click here to access article from Climate Code Red.
“Something is definitely up with the weather, and it is clear to me that over the past two years, the climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and unprecedented weather events. Human emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are the most likely cause of such a shift in the climate.”
This article does what corporate executives of our media refuse to do: connect the dots to this impending storm and the broader attack on the planet's ecosystem. Of course, the generals leading the attack are the agents of capitalism driven by their mad pursuit of more profits and power. 

Until we eliminate this life destroying economic system, extreme weather events will only accelerate until the planet is no longer fit for humans to live in. Actually, the sad fact is that if we stopped spewing carbon into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would still see more extreme weather for decades to come until most of the carbon blanket that is warming our planet dissipates to a tolerable level. But, at least we as a species probably would survive.