Sustainability and self sufficiency have meaning

[AlohaSteven]

!!!24OCT2009!!!

Here is a potentially useful suggestion from http://www.350.org along the lines of "Think globally, act locally."

http://action.350.org/t/9532/tellafriend...d_KEY=4869

...with the You Tube version at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqof641pW...r_embedded

It is always tempting to cynically sniff and yawn at such earnest populist efforts, thinking "What difference is THAT going to make- it will just be ignored" -but indeed doing this is exactly how nothing changes. Historically, when large numbers of people rise up and visibly demand change then things really do happen. Change rarely ever happens any other way.

Large numbers of people coalesce around small numbers of people who are seen to take a stand....


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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman


"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."

NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt

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