It sure would be crazy to approve the Keystone pipeline

we need to stop doing eyerolls and snark with Tom and his fellow travelers. McKibben and naomi klein have big plans for us.

here’s one of their friends

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The intergovernmental processes that constitute regimes are too closely allied with the forces that gave rise to the problems in the first place to produce real change.
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Real change is only possible if we address the deeper issue of the forces underlying deterioration.
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The search for these underlying drivers leads quickly to institutions and ideas of extraordinary power: the large multinational corporations and their influence on major governments; an unflagging commitment to high rates of economic growth; a consumerist and anthropocentric culture.
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Efforts fundamentally to change this operating system are essential,
whether through wooing and conversion, creating powerful new incentives and disincentives, cutting its power centers down to size, or eroding its monopoly through community-based and other bottom-up initiatives.
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None of this is likely unless civil society ascends to a new prominence and new roles, and engages in a new politics of the global environment.

Integral to the needed transformations is a change in values – a transition to new habits of thought and a new consciousness captured well in the Earth Charter, which urges us “ to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture
of peace.”

we should not treat these people as dumb. They are radical. They’ve always been radical. The front-men like Tom are just the nice doormen to a dystopia that we don’t want

while you are getting ready for August…you can start here

http://www.thenation.com/blog/161604/bill-mckibben-naomi-klein-call-civil-disobedience-tar-sands#

r keller on March 10, 2013 at 8:24 PM