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Written on 30-Apr-2009 by
panokroko Environmental Parliament Demonstration
STOP PRESS: News from the future?
This week, we’re printing a special publication, urging journalists
and big business to put people first. With 2020 hindsight, we’ll show
how action today made the future possible.
Without radical change, the world will soon be a hostile environment,
unleashing weather of mass destruction on our Age of Stupid. So what’s
stopping us? In simple terms: the economy, stupid.
If we accepted limits to growth, and invested billions in a Green New
Deal instead of bank bailouts, we might cut emissions as fast we need
I'd like to float an idea that's morphed out of other ideas.
There are two races, (1) for large-scale change to cut emissions/improve sustainability, and (2) to persuade enough people of the need to make this one of their key electoral motivations.
Some reviewers of the Al Gore movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' have said that it's had a really clarifying effect on them, e.g. Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian (here).
I also recall hearing that 2m Americans have seen the film, which would leave another 220m or so American adults that haven't...
This is a little off-topic, but I hope people won't mind; I guess creative writing can sometimes be as informative as purely factual posts (see Jo's cool sci-fi piece, 'Energy Future?'). It's a piece I wrote last term about the trend towards ecological housing; sadly it wasn't accepted for publication by the student paper. There may be good reasons for this :) and I'd appreciate anyone's comments on how to improve my writing style.
The content's pretty accurate, though presented in a journalistic-y style, which is always easygoing with exactitude...
THE BUDDHISTS OF SUBURBIA
Guy Shrubsole
Campaign Activism : Flavour & Fervour
(Christian Ecology Link : Green Christian Magazine : Article & Book Review : Spring 2006)
by Jo Abbess
29th January 2006
I have to come out and admit it : the Greenbelt Festival campsite is my spiritual home : I no longer feel at ease in a church made of bricks and mortar or gothic buttresses. I resist being caged.
And I want to quote from the Greenbelt website : “Greenbelt speaker Alastair McIntosh grew up on the Isle of Lewis and is now a fellow of Scotland's Centre for Human Ecology. He is author of Soil and Soul : People versus Corporate Power, described by Bishop James Jones as ‘life-changing,’ by George Monbiot as ‘world-changing,’ and by Thom Yorke of Radiohead as ‘truly mental.’â€
