Greenpeace tell us how factory effluent and
raping of forests was going to kill us.
Then, the world created banksters. It seemed
that the environment didn't matter any more
because, once, we had lots of paper money,
and now we don't. So, we're on a paper chase
and haven't given two thoughts to the environment.
Canada's PM Harper is set on forcing uneconomical
tarsands oil on the US, so that it can leak out all
over Tex-Arkana and suburbs near you.
Idiots are ruining water tables with their fracking
juice just to get a bit of shale gas, while the earth
belches and shakes.
And, we can do nothing about these. Nothing short of
blocking their access by thousands of determined
people, 24/7 will work, and as I said, you and I
are too busy chasing paper.
In all this, we've forgotten the old demons.
Industrialists , at least those who can get bank loans,
are busy using up Earth's resources at such a rate
that one scientist who actually looked at the data,
held a conference talk called :
Is Earth F%&ked?
His answer : More or less [Fucked , that is]
Enjoy your Black Friday trawl.
Hug a Black person, too. That would be a good thing.
checkit: New statesman
Naomi
Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
Is
our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists
have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.
By
Naomi Klein Published 29 October 2013 10:00
In
December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made
his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This
year’s conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s
Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space,
to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles.
But
it was Werner’s own session that was attracting much of the buzz. It was titled
“Is Earth F**ked?” (full title: “Is Earth F**ked? Dynamical Futility of Global
Environmental Management and Possibilities for Sustainability via Direct Action
Activism”).
Standing
at the front of the conference room, the geophysicist from the University of
California, San Diego walked the crowd through the advanced computer model he
was using to answer that question. He talked about system boundaries,
perturbations, dissipation, attractors, bifurcations and a whole bunch of other
stuff largely incomprehensible to those of us uninitiated in complex systems
theory. But the bottom line was clear enough: global capitalism has made the
depletion of resources so rapid, convenient and barrier-free that “earth-human
systems” are becoming dangerously unstable in response. When pressed by a
journalist for a clear answer on the “are we f**ked” question, Werner set the
jargon aside and replied, “More or less.”
There
was one dynamic in the model, however, that offered some hope. Werner termed it
“resistance” – movements of “people or groups of people” who “adopt a certain
set of dynamics that does not fit within the capitalist culture”. According to
the abstract for his presentation, this includes “environmental direct action,
resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades
and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist
groups”.
