Do We REALLY Want Change? (I'm Surrounded by Pansies)

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 1:53 PM PST

2011/02/02 · 13:53

This is an intro box of which I'm not a big fan. If you're interested in why I'm calling you a pansy, keep reading.

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Sunday December 05, 2010 · 8:35 AM PST

2010/12/05 · 08:35

I love Bill McKibben. And I love his team of whip smart writers and thinkers at 350.org. Right now, Bill is in Cancun at COP16 to observe and report. Recently, he had this to say -

"...after fifteen years of empty promises, it's pretty clear that Washington is playing the world for suckers . . .if we actually want to stop global warming, then we have to build a movement big enough to force change. Otherwise we're suckers too."

Right on, Bill. You see, Bill and 350 are building that movement, one big enough to combat the fossil fuel industry and, hopefully, all the crooked motherfuckers in Washington D.C. (sorry, but this includes our President, if only by willing association, if not slavish devotion) who see to it that the U.S. bullies the developing world into climate compliance. For Bill’s efforts in movement building, I commend him. Yet, as a fellow observer of the Climate Wars, I’m forced to wonder aloud whether any of us have really begun to build anything yet.

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Which nation will position itself as the 'climate leader' over the next decade?

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Which nation will position itself as the 'climate leader' over the next decade?

USA

0 votes

Germany

16 votes

China

16 votes

Japan

0 votes

North Korea

0 votes

Maldives

5 votes

France

2 votes

England

2 votes

Texas

1 vote

Ulysses

0 votes

Other random nation of dogooders

7 votes

DAILYCANCUN: Why I’m Voting TROTSKY/ASSANGE in 2012

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Wednesday December 01, 2010 · 11:57 PM PST

2010/12/01 · 23:57

One met death by ice pick seventy years ago, and the other is a furtive, fugitive Australian, but I’m giving my votes (thanks to my hacker buddies) to the TROTSKY/ASSANGE ticket in 2012.

WTF am I talking about and how does this apply to the ongoing UNFCC "negotiations" in Cancun? You'll see...

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Sunday November 28, 2010 · 10:54 PM PST

2010/11/28 · 22:54

It's an exciting day for the global band of climate legislation watchers. We're few in number, and our quarry is rarer than an Ivory-billed woodpecker, but we press on through the thickets and brambles in the hopes that we get to witness, once in our lifetime, meaningful and binding climate legislation. Hats off to Boatsie aka Deborah Phelan for making her way all the way to Cancun for a premier viewing angle.

After going to Copenhagen last year and experiencing the lows and lows of being in the midst of an ill-organized clusterfuck, I realized that I'd been swept up in the ferver. That is, I thought EVERYONE knew about Copenhagen. When I got home and talked to friends in 'progressive' Sonoma County, I realized the only footage relayed of Denmark was of some minor rioting I'd witnessed. Alas. Alack. So this year I decided to proactively assess how many of my local citizens are tuned in to the great and heroic mission that our man in Cancun, Todd Stern (huzzah!), is leading up. And so...

A Man, A PhoneCam & An Hour Productions Presents: What if They Threw a Climate Conference and Nobody Cared?

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Monday November 22, 2010 · 12:14 AM PST

2010/11/22 · 00:14

Enough is enough. Energy literacy is mandatory in 2010.

If the New York Times wants to continue to willfully position itself in the service of fossil fuel interests, so be it. But we're fighting back. Today's uppercut is thrown by geoscientist and PCI Fellow David Hughes.

Read on for a detailed 'correction' of NY Times reporter Clifford Krauss' woefully misleading 17. Nov 2010 article, "There Will Be Fuel."

Full release with charts/graphs/data at http://www.postcarbon.org/...

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Sunday October 24, 2010 · 7:38 PM PDT

2010/10/24 · 19:38

Remember the old joke about Galileo? I can’t recall exactly how it goes, but the gist of it is something like this: Galileo walks into a bar and yells out "Nicolaus Copernicus was right, the earth does revolve around the sun!" So the Mexican bartender looks up and says: "Dude, why is there a chicken on your shoulder?" And I don’t remember the rest but at the end the Catholics have Galileo hauled out of the bar and condemned to house arrest until he dies. Galileo Galiliei, one of the greatest minds in the entire history of humanity gets beat down by a bunch of backwoods hicks. It’s a riot, really. Best joke ever. There are versions of it going around involving Darwin, Bruno, Descartes, Newton, Einstein and others. They’re all the same kind of funny with the same punch line:

New perspectives are dangerous.

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