Now that there is no real chance of political action in the next year or two, a real opportunity exists to build a powerful, angry movement, in the USA and around the world.
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.
Though the Chamber claims to represent all of American business, their constituency is really that handful of huge dinosaur companies that would rather lobby than adapt.
After Glenn Beck calls McKibben's organization 350.org part of the "communistic" conspiracy, the writer and environmental activist does some soul searching.
For two decades now we've been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we're paying a heavy price.
If we are to somehow ward off the coming catastrophes, we have to figure out how to cooperatively own and protect the single most important feature of our planet.
The U.S. government won't shut down coal plants -- the nation's biggest global warming contributor. It's up to citizens to fix the damage that's been done.
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.
