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, November 10, 2013

Typhoon Hiayan “Demonstrating How Global South Pays Price for Emissions Historically from North”

Click here to access article by Anne Petermann from Climate Connections.
During the last major climate conference in 2012 in Doha, Tetet Lauron, a delegate from the Philippines, spoke of the devastating effects of Typhoon Bopha that hit the Philippines during that conference, killing hundreds.
The author posts some brief remarks made last year by a climate activist about the injustice of extreme weather events caused by some nations who have contributed so much to damaging the Earth's climate. Now with this current horrendous hurricane she is missing.