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[Note to a dear friend, an accomplished, impactful writer, in the DC area,
who has been a dear friend these last several years - this friend and
the friend's young family.]
My gauge of you is as an extraordinarily good, loving, responsible,courageous...
parent and spouse. As such, I believe you would
have the desire, and strength, to want to see any harm coming in their
direction, sooner, rather than later. I have so wanted, in the case
of those for
whom I care.
Such a parent, and spouse, would want to
see these, links below. Based on my lifelong background of sifting through
the minds and ideas of leading edge scientists in industry... and my 5 years
dedication to understanding global warming, ALL, links below, are from the standpoint
of the
leading edge, MAIN STREAM scientists, these (below) ARE the
mainstream scientific and economic projections. Nothing the least
bit 'fringe' about them from the standpoint of the main stream
scientists, 97% of them. (100% fringe from the standpoint of Fox News,
the right wing media, and the fossil fuel $1b per year (recent main stream
articles) misinformation machine.)
And the one direction of their views, year in, year out, year
by year, for the last 30-40 years, is that any current year's data says
that their prior year projections of horror were, uh, too, way, way, WAY too
conservative. This never changes, year in, year out. Even the scientists
are subject to internal denial of the facts, science, and the implications.
It is overwhelmingly bleak, and terrifying:
3 min or so. Dr. David Suzuki, Canada's equivalent of Bill Nye the science
guy, tho
more scholarly -
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/12/just-stop-watch-share-decide-david.html
10 min - very good, 2014 synopsis:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/12/last-hours-vid-10-min.html
2 hour more in depth, what my 1000's of hours of main-stream research
confirms (2007, but very much correct on all the main points), and 99.9999% more
than all but 1 in a million citizens understand about where we are:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/01/life-ending-on-earth-life-at-end-of.html
Scholarly papers -
Well footnoted to main-stream science, tho the author has taken a more courageous,
honest, more forthright take on the implications of the science than most others have
to date:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/climate-scientist-environment-apocalypse-human-extinction
Gold Standard Scientific Position, 12.03.13, Nasa's James Hansen, et al:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20131202_PopularSciencePlosOneE.pdf
What these articles and videos above do not cover, is the other Armageddon unfolding,
global fascism, police state, the end of democracy in America (Bill Moyers)
Here,
here,
here,
here.
Now, hold on for just a second before you decide I'm a loon. This below is main
stream headlines
the last few days. Now, if 85 rich owning 1/2 the world, and the top 2% owning
virtually all of it, if this is not Fascism, the rich owning everything,
the rich (their money and power) 'owning' the
government officials, then, well, hmm, it IS Global Fascism, by whatever name or guise. These people don't
own the 50% because they have good intent; and it requires no 'conspiracy' theory; it is
only to say that 85, or 10,000 people with that much $$$,
near all the rest of us with any power (gov officials) are
going
to be sure not to threaten, and to curry favor with, these people. Not one in a million
of us would risk family, education, job, status, comfort... by not pursuing
the money and favor of such money. Let's be real:
The World's 85 Richest Now Worth as Much as 3.5 Billion PoorestBusinessweek
85 richest people own as much as bottom half of
population, report ...Opinion-Los Angeles Time
World's 85 richest have as much money as 3.5billion poorest people ...Daily Mail
World's richest have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorestCNBC.com
Richest 1% own
nearly half of world's wealthUSA TODAY
McClatchy Washington Bureau
etc....
The point? Armageddon, 2x, is unfolding before the eyes of every parent in
America -
1x Armageddon: Earth may only be habitable for another few generations, convulsions
beginning immediately; and the
2x Armageddon: Demise of Democracy in America, and the unfolding of
Global Fascism, a 4th Reich, tho unnamed, is unfolding before the
parent's eyes. It will be one life for the top 1-10% (the owners and their corpratocracy),
and another life entirely, rapidly becoming more bleak, for the rest, the expendables.
For the 'rest,' I'll spend the rest of my life sentence doing what I can to help.
More here, and unfolding here over time.
For many more years to come, most parents will not find the Loving to come out
of their comfortable denial. But some will find the Courage, the Loving, and begin
to figure out how to help their children grow, and find Joy, and mitigation of suffering,
in this terrible, terrifying, convulsing, collapsing, violent, vicious, deadly, and soon dead, new world. I'll do what little I can to help them.No need to reply to me.
Your Loving brother forever, no matter what.
------- Addendum-------
Comment from a young, in college FB friend, MW (initial CRUCIAL dialog,
HERE):
'Awesome. Thank you. So depressing. Seems hopeless.'
Loving:
'
It is, materially, hopeless, ONLY because millions will not take the streets, unviolently, UNTIL THEY WIN A FUTURE FOR THEIR KID'S. But some
of the most joyful people ever to have walked the earth, will be the
folks of your generation that carve out a loving life of mutual
community and service, off grid, sustainable, outside of empire. Folks
are doing it. Within weeks I'll be diving in to begin understanding,
cataloging, sharing, following, and if I'm lucky, joining and helping
such communities.'
-----FRIENDS, WHY DON'T YOU SHARE THIS POST. WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO LOSE?----
Doug Grandt shared Occupy Seattle's photo.
