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Showing posts with label McKibben. Show all posts
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3.13.2012

Bill Mckibben - Organizing the Struggle for life on Planet Eaarth Berkeleyside

Bill Mckibben - Organizing the Struggle for life on Planet Eaarth

Berkeleyside -
We don't have a choice -- we cannot let this destruction continue. Join us, for an evening with Bill Mckibben, activist, educator and author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Touch New Planet, a New York Times best-seller.

3.08.2012

Dr. Jim Hansen, NASA, Comes of Age. Grows Up. GOD BLESS YOUR HEART, JIM.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

James Hansen's Must-See TED Talk: Starting To Reduce CO2 In 10 Years Is Too Late

ThinkProgress -
By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 8, 2012 at 9:52 am “It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” by Dan Miller NASA climate scientist James Hansen gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach, ...
What drives James Hansen on climate change
A Fundamental Understanding of Climate Issues & Solutions is Essential

3.01.2012

On energy, Obama avoiding ghost of Jimmy Carter Politico

On energy, Obama avoiding ghost of Jimmy Carter

Politico -
In 2010, environmentalist Bill McKibben tried in vain to get the Obama administration to take the symbolic step of reinstalling one of Carter's solar panels on the White House - the panels the Reagan administration removed after taking over in 1981.

DON'T MISS!!!! BILL MCKIBBEN SHOWING BACKBONE! Bill McKibben: Beyond Keystone ThinkProgress

Bill McKibben: Beyond Keystone

ThinkProgress -
By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 27, 2012 at 10:52 am by Bill McKibben, reposted from HuffPost There were two scientific studies this week that set the ongoing Keystone pipeline battle in sharp relief.

2.28.2012

#2. Joe Romm Slams Obama. Will he Censor criticism of himself? Stay tuned. (detail)

 See SL comment below, uh, 'awaiting moderation'

Bill McKibben: Beyond Keystone

We don’t get to rest in a fight that we’re still not winning

by Bill McKibben, reposted from HuffPost

Comment #5 left by Loving -

Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Well, well, well. Quite a day at Think Progress Green. First, Joe Romm reaches an all time low in cowardly, throwing red meat to the Left, blaming of Pr. Obama for the failures that belong squarely at the feet of we the sheeple, pretty much an unbroken string now for Joe of pandering to us. But Bill McKibben, wonder of wonders, for the first time ever (?) Bill McKibben is talking like a leader of some seriousness, some responsibility! Wow. What a day. Go Bill! Go-away Joe! (or at least, stick to the science).

2.02.2012

While the Lip-Service-Left Fiddles: Lack of collective will on climate change: Manmohan Singh Economic Times

Lack of collective will on climate change: Manmohan Singh

Economic Times -
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in New ...
Collective global will lacking to fight climate change, says PM
`Climate change: Those creating problems least willing to take action`

1.31.2012

While McKibben Fiddles: Poll backs Obama on taxes, but not oil pipeline USA TODAY

Poll backs Obama on taxes, but not oil pipeline

USA TODAY -
By David Jackson, USA TODAY A week after the State of the Union address, a new poll reflects the old good news-bad news routine for President Obama. By a margin of 65%-to-31%, Americans agreed with Obama's proposal for a new minimum 30% tax rate on ...
Congress Would Replace Obama as Keystone Decider Under Bill
Congress Would Replace Obama as Keystone Decision Maker in Republican Bill

1.24.2012

Bernie Sanders And Climate Activists Blow The Whistle On Congressional Oil Corruption

Bernie Sanders And Climate Activists Blow The Whistle On Congressional Oil Corruption

 My comment on YouTube, Facebook and ClimateProgress.org:


By every measure of historical, moral, physical, intellectual standards, this is pitiful. Oh, these citizens have the right to do what they've done, legally. But McKibben hasn't the Moral right to hold himself up as some important leader, and at the same time act in a way that makes an entire mockery of the magnitude of the Environmental, Armageddon Doom that is all but certain unless people stand up now, today, with the courage of the 1920, 1930's blacks in this country, those like Steve Biko in South Africa, the 100's of thousands of young Egyptians just a year ago.... There is more at stake now, and the opposition is more vicious, criminally insane, powerful, and infinitely more hidden in the very fabric of western culture than ever the Earth has seen.

McKibben, you should be ashamed. You are not responsible for stopping this Armageddon. You are not responsible for who does or does not show up to fight. But as long as you hold yourself in the position you do, you need to measure up to the Bikos, Rachel Corries, MLK Jr's, Gandhi's, Wael Ghonim's in the COURAGE OF YOUR ATTEMPT, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

"Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Recipient.

Can't you hear the shrieks of laughter of the oil lobby at this carnival? Can't you hear the outraged cry's for vengeance by the soon to be certain victims of our failure of attempt, of courage, of Heart, of Conscience, of goodness of the world's leader on this issue? Spitballs were never going to stop the evil of Hitler. He's child's play compared to this. Insanely Humane Unviolent action is our only hope. STOP THROWING SPITBALLS. Step up to the job, or get out of the way. Nature abhors a vacuum. If you at least step out of the way, we may fill it in time. At least we'll have a better chance. Better yet, STEP UP. Be willing to fail. BUT BE UNWILLING TO NOT TRY. sl

11.08.2011

D85+42 ''WAI' Blog - 'McKibben Censoring Start Loving Agressively.' SL jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com


http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/11/d8542-wai-blog-mckibben-censoring-start.html
jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com
SHIFTING FROM THE ADAM SMITHIAN PARADIGM OF 'THE WORLD IS HERE FOR ME,' TO THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIAN 'I AM HERE FOR THEE;' FROM FASCIST-GOP AUTHORITARIAN TO LINCOLN-OBAMA AUTHORITATIVE. FROM PLEASURE TO JOY. FROM LUSTING TO LOVING. FROM HEAD AND FLESH TO HEART. "BLEST ARE THE PEACE MAKERS." TRULY, ...

D85+42 ''WAI' Blog - 'McKibben Censoring Start Loving Agressively.' SL

"I got into a discussion with one of the Tar Sands Action [McKibben's meaningless, cowardly 3 week media event in Aug-Sept in DC] organizers - and he was literally steering people away from Start Loving, recommending that everyone avoid him entirely (although, of course, he had never spoken to him)."

From the following site:
http://whoami-whoareyou.blogspot.com/2011/09/keystone-xl-pipline-protest-washington.html

'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.'  Gandhi

Also from the site -

"But the videos and the news reports are just nothing like the man I met in front of the White House. Nothing like him. Not at all. I do not (for instance) happen to believe that Jesus has got anything to do with it - but that neither impeded our conversation nor lessened the effect of what he said to me...

I have been struggling with despair - and he could see that, and agreed with me that despair won't kill you, so ... Get on with it then. We don't have much time.

As for the top-down bureaucratic approaches like the one I was contributing to there in Washington at the time - I know they won't work, they are the merest setting out and their constant & pervasive correctitude, their hewing to the party line and no further makes them go off in wrong directions at times (if not most of the time, if not all of the time) - he called that kind of thing 'Henny-Penny' which hit the nail on the head for me."

'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.'  Gandhi

ps:  Jesus got just about the same reception, and the McKibbens of the world marginalized him successfully enough that yup, what Jesus died to Save everyone from, Israel's destruction, well, the McKibbens prevailed.  Good (God) help us.  We don't learn.



9.02.2011

D50+18 'Jensen, Hansen, McKibben - YOU'VE NO RIGHT TO ACCEPT DEFEAT.' SL jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/09/d50-14-jensen-hansen-mckibben-youve-no.html

jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com
SHIFTING FROM THE ADAM SMITHIAN PARADIGM OF 'THE WORLD IS HERE FOR ME,' TO THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIAN 'I AM HERE FOR THEE;' FROM FASCIST-GOP AUTHORITARIAN TO LINCOLN-OBAMA AUTHORITATIVE. FROM PLEASURE TO JOY. FROM LUSTING TO LOVING. FROM HEAD AND FLESH TO HEART. "BLEST ARE THE PEACE MAKERS." TRULY, ...

8.31.2011

'SL'S ISOLATED CUZ EVERYONE ELSE IS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.' SL

It has been stunning, and until recent years, devastatingly painful, to find that just the people and groups with whom I expected to find kinship - ZERO. Dead. Cold as Ice.  Total alienation.  'peace activists,' 'churches,' 'catholic workers,' etc, etc, etc.  Yesterday was a huge leap for me in terms of clarity as to what is going on -

I had a really important clarity yesterday. As you may know, but the McKibben Climate club doesn't know, or care, I've been planning this action for months. They show up here about 10am and move to just inches behind where I stand about 11am. I have a sound system blaring clips from Plan B 3.0, the 'failure is not an option' scene from Apolo 13, and my own What Start Proposes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kThsp2aAaA  . Well, you can imagine their rage, and most days someone comes over, frustrated as hell, 'WILL YOU PLEASE TURN THAT DOWN? THE NATIONAL MEDIA IS HERE. WE WANT TO GIVE SPEECHES. BLAH BLAH BLAH. 'No,' is my reply. Yesterday the semi-drunk guy that came to ask me, after hearing 'no,' 3 times, in desperation added, 'WELL, WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE, AREN'T WE?' I thought for a moment, 'No,' I replied. This was enormously clarifying for me. Thinking more of it later I realized - WE ARE ON EXACTLY OPPOSITE SIDES - YOU ARE ON THE SIDE OF 'ME,' 'SELFISHNESS,' 'DO SOMETHING AND FEEL BETTER,' and I'm on the side of 'WE,' 'BROTHERHOOD,' 'SOLIDARITY,' 'FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.' THESE ARE THE TWO EXACTLY OPPOSITE WAYS OF BEING. D, this is why you are the only compadre, and maybe Lizzie, that I have. slSee More