[lit-ideas] Re: Climate
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:45:20 -0500
Andy,
Have you seen a film called "Corporations"? Look it up on Netflix...
Julie Krueger
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess at some point it becomes bellyaching. There's nothing any
> individual or even group of individuals can do against corporate interests.
> Lighter fare for next time...
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> Why is it not possible to tell people, look, this is the situation. If
> we keep going in this direction, we're going to wind up here. And this is
> what here looks like. And people will say, oh, that's a bad place to wind
> up. Let's change. Instead, they have to be cajoled and persuaded, and
> entertained while being cajoled and persuaded, and finally, when it's too
> late, they take action. As Churchill famously observed, Americans will
> always do the right thing, but only after all other options are exhausted.
> It's not just Americans, it's all people. I'm reading a book on the global
> water situation, and India has an estimated 20 years of water left. They
> know it, and the response is, well if we don't make money wasting this water
> now somebody else will. In the U.S. the Republicans have created the tea
> party and convinced the poor saps that they need to eviscerate the EPA so
> the Koch Brothers and whoever can pollute with impunity. In the meantime,
> Texas hasn't had any rain to speak of since October, and the oil industry
> wants to run an oil pipeline over the Ogalala aquifer no less (the
> pipeline won't leak, no, never). And with all of that, nobody believes in
> climate change, as if data were a matter of belief. Jared Diamond of course
> chronicles the so called reasoning that goes into humanity's so called
> thought processes. I thought this link was interesting.
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> http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/09/al-gore-is-back
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