August 14, 2012 note
How I wish I could tell you to delay digging into this book
now. How I wish I could point you to
others that do it’s job, better, as well, at all. But I can’t.
Dig in, but for another couple of weeks, Creator Willing,
you’ll have the additional task of keeping the following in mind, changes that
are in the works for the book in 2 or three waves:
1. The
entire notion of “death,” “dying for a cause,” for the joy, life, hope, sanity,
humanity, future giving of it… is and remains central to the book. However, as I’ve known and lived for years,
but briefly lost confidence in recently, is that there is a place, narrow and
near impossible to find, there is a place for “dying for a cause” that is not a
“Death Fast,” or “Self Immolation,” or the like. Teresa of Calcutta died for her Family in
Calcutta for decades, with immense joy, but unmistakably dying that her charges
might have the experience of being loved and valued before they passed on. Pathologically we the most powerful people on
earth, we Americans, have perverted the notion of “non-violence” to mean,
non-violence to ME, and MINE. Gandhi did
the reverse, as did MLK Jr, Rachel Corrie, Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero, who spoke
of the ‘Violence of Love’ that we unviolent warriors do to ourselves. No, non-violence, unviolent action is the
exact opposite of what we’ve distorted it to mean. By the INSHE Warriors worthy of the name,
throughout history, unviolent action has been exactly racing toward the
emergency, the danger of others, and exactly putting and keeping ourselves, and
our dearest ones, our bodies in harm’s way, to shield the otherwise victims,
until they were saved. So, near
everywhere in the book that you find Death Fast as the only way, you will soon
see that slightly broadened to include especially, what I conducted two, 50
day, water only hunger strikes last year to seed – waves of to death’s door but
not though hunger strikes until carbon warming gas dumpers are paying their
future wrecking costs, and not sending those costs on to our children.
2. The
need for substantial focus on subsidies and not just on the legislation to
insure full payment of $240/ton of coal and oil, and $6000 per ton of natural
gas seepage, after a straight ramp to those figures beginning 2012. In recent weeks Republicans Inglis and George
Schultz, Reagan’s Sec. of State, and others on the right, have been calling for
the carbon gas dumpers to pay their costs for that, but that all subsidies,
fossil fuel and renewable energy alike, should go away. The market forces being held in abeyance by
the future killing free dumping of warming gasses, those pent up forces are so
enormous, that I need to, and expect to re-examine both the historical size of fossil
fuel US subsidies (I may have overstated them in the book by as much as a factor
of 5-10), and whether subsidies need to be an aim of ours at all right now. Getting enough of the dumping and wreckage costs
on the bill of the dumpers now, may well be more than sufficient.
3. 1.5
degrees C, NOT 2.0 degrees C!!!!!!!!!! What does this mean to the numbers, the tons
of carbon we yet can burn, the rate of decrease in emissions required by when…?
4. Pricing
Methane Seepage correctly, fully, now. My
quick search suggests vs the $240/ton on CO2 it is $6000 per ton on natural gas
seepage, but this needs more checking and thought.
5. Rechecking,
re-calibrating, and where necessary, updating in this book the crucial figures that
we moms and dads of the next 200 billion children, grandchildren… need to know to
properly stand for our kid’s future. What
is a reasonable estimate of the damage done by burning each ton of coal and oil
– is it the $240? $11,000? What is a reasonable estimate.
I anticipate these updates happening in waves: A. rough cut;
B. far more detailed analysis. There is a
date of revision shown above that will be updated as changes occur kept current
on scrbd.com.
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