Praying for rain will be little help while Texas politicians work to deny global warming and prevent the changes that might actually deal with their troubles.
"We will never have as much money as the oil companies, so we need a different currency to work in. We need bodies, we need creativity, we need spirit."
Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, AlterNet. April 8, 2011.
We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible.
After Glenn Beck calls McKibben's organization 350.org part of the "communistic" conspiracy, the writer and environmental activist does some soul searching.
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. September 16, 2010.
The White House seems to have decided that solar panels on the roof would be ammo for Fox News: an association with Jimmy Carter that's the electoral equivalent of cooties.
On Oct. 24, tens of thousands of people will be in the streets and on mountains, rivers and glaciers around the world demanding action to reduce CO2 emissions.
