Category: My Stance to Global Warming
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What Will It Take To Recognize Danger
The latest estimates of carbon utilization show that we are over-budget regardless of what we do regarding new sources of fossil fuels. We are still playing with fire! A new study from Oil Change International reveals how we are doing so. Bill McKibben [comments on]: Trudeau can’t charm his way around the mathematics of climate…
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The Climate and The American Election
Another article worth reading: The Climate Emergency and the Election: A Pathway to WWII-Scale Mobilization in Common Dreams by Ezra Silk. Ezra is co-founder of The Climate Mobilization, and has spent the past year researching what is needed for management of climate change, and how it can be accomplished — by the equivalent of a…
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Living In Vancouver
Vancouver is proving to be an interesting city within which to live in the era of global warming and its challenges. As noted in Metro Vancouver: competing visions fight for the city’s soul, the global fossil fuel industry wants to develop Vancouver as a major shipping port for exportation of fossil fuel products: expansion of…
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The Climate Mobilization Pledge
We are at war, and we are losing! (Bill McKibben, 2016 Sep 6) I’ve indicated previously that I have joined The Climate Mobilization (TCM). What follows is the pledge I am making as part of this process. I’ve joined TCM because I strongly believe that our civilization is on a suicide course regarding Climate Change,…
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Reflections on Hope, Part 2
In the last post, I reviewed the negative forces that I believe impact the likelihood of catastrophe as the outcome of global warming. I want now to reflect on the positives concerning my hope for a mature culture. As stated, I strongly believe that, if we are to survive as a species, we must more…
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Reflections on Hope
I want now to reflect on my hope for a mature culture. For more than twenty postings, I have suggested my ideas for a mature culture, not as a blueprint, but as a point of discussion. I strongly believe that, if we are to survive as a species, we must more towards maturity; we must…
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Understanding this blog
My experience is that anyone coming to a new blog, especially one that has be available for more than 20-30 posts, will need time to get a sense of the blog. This page is meant to give you the new reader some clues as to what I the creator believe will most serve you in…
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Global Warming: My Stance
I’ve been ill for the past week, still somewhat frail — it has given me an opportunity to think about what I really want, and why I am writing this blog. Succinctly, I believe that as a species we are on a suicide mission, and as a culture we are incredibly angry; you only have…
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Why I do anger management
In one sense, this post is a digression on my current theme of visioning a mature society. But it also gets to the heart of the matter of how we are to get to this vision. For me, anger is the canary in the coal mine, and it has movement. First, what a blog offers…
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Welcome #2
Hi. I am re-evaluating how I use this blog, and have decided to resume it in a variety of ways. I stopped posting (in every way) about two years ago, largely because I did not have a focus in my life as to how to proceed. However, I have remained deeply concerned about the issues of climate change,…
Awakening From Your Anger 