Comments on: Copenhagen: what else? http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: hombredelatierra http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-44157 hombredelatierra Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:35:35 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-44157 These folks in an English town are rebuilding community and resilience from the bottom (grassroots) up. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/todmordens-good-life-introducing-britains-greenest-town-1830666.html As the "Old Economy" (cheap fossil fuel) passes, decentralized economies will be better suited - I hope! - to the new rules of the emerging "New Economy". We must do all we can to assist these efforts and to share information. The age of networking is here, let's use it for something life affirming.. Check out the website posting I gave above which discusses some of the potential advantages of the New Economy. And Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010 to All! These folks in an English town are rebuilding community and resilience from the bottom (grassroots) up.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/todmordens-good-life-introducing-britains-greenest-town-1830666.html

As the “Old Economy” (cheap fossil fuel) passes, decentralized economies will be better suited – I hope! – to the new rules of the emerging “New Economy”. We must do all we can to assist these efforts and to share information. The age of networking is here, let’s use it for something life affirming..

Check out the website posting I gave above which discusses some of the potential advantages of the New Economy.

And Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010 to All!

]]> By: Steve Salmony http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43944 Steve Salmony Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:42:08 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43944 Dearest Margaret, May the wind be ever at your back....... Keep going. Steve Dearest Margaret,

May the wind be ever at your back……. Keep going.

Steve

]]> By: Margaret http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43657 Margaret Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:30:48 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43657 Steve, I can't place my hope in Copenhagen. The change we need will not come from those who have so much power at stake in the world as it is. It must come from below. The energy needs to be directed into creating communities of non-participation in the global capitalist system that has created the crisis. These guys are trying to figure out a way to cut emissions while salvaging that system. It is not our last best chance to save the planet for human life. That is putting way too much power and authority in their hands. It would be great if they would really do the drastic things required, but they won't. Maybe a little mitigation, perhaps some adaptation funds - not nearly enough. What is needed is to create the kinds of communities and cultures that remove the power and authority from them by not propping up the system anymore with what we assume we need for a successful life. Hope is somewhere else. That's where I need to go. So, onward, and thank you so much for your heartfelt commitment and dedication! Margaret Steve, I can’t place my hope in Copenhagen. The change we need will not come from those who have so much power at stake in the world as it is. It must come from below. The energy needs to be directed into creating communities of non-participation in the global capitalist system that has created the crisis. These guys are trying to figure out a way to cut emissions while salvaging that system.

It is not our last best chance to save the planet for human life. That is putting way too much power and authority in their hands. It would be great if they would really do the drastic things required, but they won’t. Maybe a little mitigation, perhaps some adaptation funds – not nearly enough.

What is needed is to create the kinds of communities and cultures that remove the power and authority from them by not propping up the system anymore with what we assume we need for a successful life.

Hope is somewhere else. That’s where I need to go.

So, onward, and thank you so much for your heartfelt commitment and dedication!

Margaret

]]> By: Steven Earl Salmony http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43649 Steven Earl Salmony Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:33:04 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43649 Dear Nobel Laureate and President Barack Obama, Please save the world from greedy fat cats and fossil fools. Thanks, Steve Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001 http://www.panearth.org/ Dear Nobel Laureate and President Barack Obama,

Please save the world from greedy fat cats and fossil fools.

Thanks,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
http://www.panearth.org/

]]> By: Steve Salmony http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43622 Steve Salmony Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:37:30 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43622 The last, best chance for the children is "now-here". Let's hope those with power to create the colossal ecological mess that is now presented to humanity will agree to help clean the global mess up before it is too late for human interventions to make a difference. Human-induced challenges can certainly be acknowledged, addressed and overcome by human-driven action. The last, best chance for the children is “now-here”. Let’s hope those with power to create the colossal ecological mess that is now presented to humanity will agree to help clean the global mess up before it is too late for human interventions to make a difference.

Human-induced challenges can certainly be acknowledged, addressed and overcome by human-driven action.

]]> By: Steve Salmony http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43505 Steve Salmony Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:41:26 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43505 Yvo De Boer and the leaders of Copenhagen Climate Change Conference are engaged in "the good fight" at the last, best opportunity for human civilization to save the planet for the children and coming generation as a fit place for human habitation. Years ago I was told that my generation had a duty to leave the world a better place than what is was when it was given to us by our forefathers and foremothers. It goes without saying that my not-so-great generation of greed-mongering elders will fall woefully short of discharging its responsibilities. Come what may for the children. Too many arrogant and selfish leaders in a single generation have recklessly chosen to fight wrongful wars for wrongheaded reasons, at a cost of blood and treasure that is as astounding in its stupidity as it is incalculable to measure. Yvo De Boer and the leaders of Copenhagen Climate Change Conference are engaged in “the good fight” at the last, best opportunity for human civilization to save the planet for the children and coming generation as a fit place for human habitation. Years ago I was told that my generation had a duty to leave the world a better place than what is was when it was given to us by our forefathers and foremothers. It goes without saying that my not-so-great generation of greed-mongering elders will fall woefully short of discharging its responsibilities. Come what may for the children. Too many arrogant and selfish leaders in a single generation have recklessly chosen to fight wrongful wars for wrongheaded reasons, at a cost of blood and treasure that is as astounding in its stupidity as it is incalculable to measure.

]]> By: Steve Salmony http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/copenhagen-what-else/comment-page-1/#comment-43369 Steve Salmony Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:08:50 +0000 http://www.ecologicalhope.org/?p=4053#comment-43369 Perhaps now is a good time to breathe deeply and celebrate. President Barack Obama is in Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This is a moment for rejoicing and listening to the words of a great person. He is deserving of a Nobel Prize because he is a beacon of light and hope in an awakening world that has suffered grievously through the past 8 long, dark years with leadership known mostly for its disasterous decisonmaking, disinformation, delay, denial, duplicity and dunderheadedness. Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001 Perhaps now is a good time to breathe deeply and celebrate.

President Barack Obama is in Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This is a moment for rejoicing and listening to the words of a great person. He is deserving of a Nobel Prize because he is a beacon of light and hope in an awakening world that has suffered grievously through the past 8 long, dark years with leadership known mostly for its disasterous decisonmaking, disinformation, delay, denial, duplicity and dunderheadedness.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

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