"The responsible man seeks to make his whole
life a response to the question and call of God."
The great masquerade of evil has wrought havoc
with all our ethical preconceptions. This appearance of evil in the
guise of light, beneficence and historical necessity is utterly
bewildering to anyone nurtured in our traditional ethical systems. But
for the Christian who frames his life on the Bible it simply confirms
the radical evilness of evil.
The failure of rationalism is
evident. With the best of intentions, but with a naïve lack of realism,
the rationalist imagines that a small dose of reason will be enough to
put the world right. In his short-sightedness he wants to do justice to
all sides, but in the mêlée of conflicting forces he gets trampled upon
without having achieved the slightest effect. Disappointed by the
irrationality of the world, he realizes at last his futility, retires
from the fray, and weakly surrenders to the winning side.
Worse
still is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. The fanatic imagines
that his moral purity will prove a match for the power of evil, but like
a bull he goes for the red rag instead of the man who carries it, grows
weary and succumbs. He becomes entangled with non-essentials and falls
into the trap set by the superior ingenuity of his adversary.
Then
there is the man with a conscience. He fights singlehanded against
overwhelming odds in situations which demand a decision. But there are
so many conflicts going on, all of which demand some vital choice--with
no advice or support save that of his own conscience--that he is torn to
pieces.
Evil approaches him in so many specious and
deceptive guises that his conscience becomes nervous and vacillating. In
the end he contents himself with a salved instead of a clear
conscience, and starts lying to his conscience as a means of avoiding
despair. If a man relies exclusively on his conscience he fails to see
how a bad conscience is sometimes more wholesome and strong than a
deluded one.
When men are confronted by a bewildering variety of
alternatives, the path of duty seems to offer a sure way out. They grasp
at the imperative as the one certainty. The responsibility for the
imperative rests upon its author, not upon its executor. But when men
are confined to the limits of duty, they never risk a daring deed on
their own responsibility, which is the only way to score a bull's eye
against evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end be forced to
give the devil his due.
What then of the man of freedom? He is
the man who aspires to stand his ground in the world, who values the
necessary deed more highly than a clear conscience or the duties of his
calling, who is ready to sacrifice a barren principle for a fruitful
compromise or a barren mediocrity for a fruitful radicalism. What then
of him? He must beware lest his freedom should become his own undoing.
For in choosing the lesser of two evils he may fail to see that the
greater evil he seeks to avoid may prove the lesser. Here we have the
raw material of tragedy.
Some seek refuge from the
rough-and-tumble of public life in the sanctuary of their own private
virtue. Such men however are compelled to seal their lips and shut their
eyes to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception
can they keep themselves pure from the defilements incurred by
responsible action. For all that they achieve, that which they leave
undone will still torment their peace of mind. They will either go to
pieces in face of this disquiet, or develop into the most hypocritical
of all Pharisees.
Who stands his ground? Only the man whose
ultimate criterion is not in his reason, his principles, his conscience,
his freedom or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these things
when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and
exclusive allegiance to God. The responsible man seeks to make his whole
life a response to the question and call of God.
8.16.2012
nd 'Objectively Jagerstadder, Corrie, Bonhoeffer... FAILURES.' Loving
nd 'Objectively Jagerstadder, Corrie, Bonhoeffer... FAILURES.' Loving
GWDF2 D6A Characteristic 108. Channeling Creative Tension Every Breath
http://youtu.be/sZRivAuR08U
GWDF D6A
Characteristic 108 Channeling Creative Tension Every Breath
As I've before
written and said, there are two ways to bring radical change - show up with enough
guns and kill or threaten to kill until you get what you want, or show up with
enough loving bodies and die until you so evoke the humanity of onlookers that
pressure comes to bear from them and you get what is rightfully yours. Violence and unviolent action; 1. Destructive
Tension, and 2. Creative Tension.
It is essential to
understand these the two ways of creating tension, and it was with Dr. King
that I first saw that the concept of creative tension (actually I first saw the
concept from MIT's Peter Senge in his book “The Fifth Discipline,” but the
earliest reference I've seen is Dr. King), that all advance for humanity comes
from, not the absence of tension, but the near unbearable creative tension:
seeing on the one hand an impending horror and seeing on the other hand the
slimmest chance of averting that horror, particularly for dearest loved ones;
tho for the INSHE warriors, ALL are their dearest loved ones. This is really at the bottom of what Gandhi
spoke of - truth force – the emotive truth of how things should/could be and
the truth of the horror of how they are now or are about to become; unless
prevented, stopped, averted, replaced….
We are not bricks, we’re
not trees, we’re not cats, we’re not birds.
Our DNA would have us be human beings and as humans we are motivated by,
moved by, tension. We’re driven away
from something by the tension of fear, by threat of force, by actual force. We’re drawn to something by the tension of
passion, sense of solidarity, desire to alleviate someone else's pain, or
threatened pain, and thereby alleviate our own which we feel vicariously,
empathically.
Gandhi on hunger
strike was a tsunami of creative tension for ultimately millions, maybe
billions around the world. It was excruciating,
it was e-motive, that is, moving, was e-motional, motional. Wave after wave of people in India marching
simply to get salt that had been taken from their oceans that was rightfully
theirs, clubbed unrelentingly, kicked in the groin over and over, but did not
raise a hand to protect themselves, channeling creative tension to millions
around the world via vicarious learning, empathy, the royal road to hacking our
defenses and awakening the heart.
Alice Paul and her
sisters in prison 30 miles South of here on hunger strike, being force-fed
simply for demanding what was rightfully theirs, the right to vote as full
human beings. This channeled immense
creative tension.
And that's what I
seek to do, every breath, to bear near unbearable creative tension and thereby
channel it into the world to be available for others to take it on, and if
others do take it on, and too begin channeling it thought every moment of
action, and thereby spread the fire, then, and only then will there be
hope. Unless others succeed where I’ve
failed, which I pray, but don’t see happening, or even tried.
There are only two
ways to bring radical change and only one brings radical change to the world
permanently, that is life. They both can
lead to permanent radical change. Much
more of the violent kind, destructive tension, the violent tension, will
conclude Armageddon, environmental Armageddon and in the Middle East it may
spark global Armageddon, nuclear war.
Creative tension is
the one that adds to the complexity of life, which is to say it expands, it
enriches human life, possibly forever. That's
the direction of evolution. That is loving.
That is the force of loving. That
is the truth force Gandhi spoke of, the soul force. And that is what I seek to be in every cell,
every atom, every molecule of my body, with every breath, because therein lies
all hope.
And you?
8.15.2012
nd 'Maintaining Peak 'Creative Tension' - Strategic Essence of Unviolent Warfare.' Loving
nd 'Maintaining Peak 'Creative Tension' - Strategic Essence of Unviolent Warfare.' Loving
nd 'No Status Quo Stands Without 3 Legs - Right, Center, Left.' Gandhi
nd 'No Status Quo Stands Without All 3 Legs - Right, Center, Left.' Gandhi
nd 'It is only those who envy me that I've benefited.' Loving
nd 'It is only those who envy me that I've benefited.' Loving
8.14.2012
GW's Death. Fast2. D5A - Near debilitated all morning, the internal bleeding...
GW's Death. Fast. D5A - Near debilitated all morning, the internal bleeding, or whatever this anemia thing turns out to be (sure feels like that), near crippling fatigue. Mornings are the worst. I remember that the 1st Death Fast, that turned out to be a weapon's test, was the same - morning's the worst.
Thank Goodness, thank Creator, my head is clearing and I can work now.
Thank Goodness, thank Creator, my head is clearing and I can work now.
GW's Death. Fast2. D5A - Book 1 Addition
The following has just been inserted in the front of the book "Global Warming's Death. Fast. Till enough are seen dying for it, CO2 won't stop." See tab, above, or click here. Uploading to scribd, now.
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.
GWDF2 Day 5A: Raining, off-post working most of the day; or not
Though my body and mind are severely experiencing the calorie starvation, I must break the back of tasks I outlined yesterday in a post. Awakened by the rain throughout the night, I finally concluded that discretion is the better part of valor, and will spend most of today, I expect, husbanding what physical energy and mental acuity I have for the crucial work at hand, using coffee shops and libraries as a less taxing base of operations today.
Hmmm. Now the internet forecast is suddenly for much less rain, and the sun just came out.
We'll see.
Hmmm. Now the internet forecast is suddenly for much less rain, and the sun just came out.
We'll see.
GWDF2 Day 4 - $240 not $311 ton The frickin Docs won't talk straight to us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDIK_LR2MOQ
Rush transcript -
Rush transcript -
Day 4 - The frickin
Docs won't talk straight to us. $240 not $311 ton
I'm pretty outraged. Partly at myself. About a week ago I saw a global warming
article, one of the hundreds of titles I cull through everyday. I came onto an article and had a euphoric
sense of reaching a point of clarity; a
kind of clarity you need if your kid is deathly ill and you can't get straight
answers.
I recalled finding it
in a major IEA article; if that wasn't it it was climate progress. Actually, it
was a report on Nicholas Stern’s study at climate progress. Stern talked about $84 a ton in damage being
done by a ton of carbon so I quickly calculated 3.67, which I believe is how
much CO2 is generated by burning a ton of carbon, and came up with $311 per ton,
which I now see, is wrong. It would be
incorrect, it would be inverse, it would be more like $20 per ton of carbon. I haven't delved back into the article; I
haven't yet done the digging to figure out what the actual, a reasonable
estimate of the actual damage done by burning at ton of carbon. If I recall correctly, if we put more than
half a trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere between, well, ever, any in this
next century, we go over 1.5° C. May be
less than half a trillion tons, which is roughly what we have up there already
of CO2 from us this last 30 years, primarily.
So half a trillion
tons of CO2 divided by 3.67 would give us the number of tons of carbon that we
can still burn. Methane, natural gas,
that has to be added to the story. And
that divided into 20%, conservatively that we will destroy, into 20% the value
of the world for the next 2000 generations we are ruining, how many quadrillion
dollars is that, would tell us the cost of burning at ton of coal or oil. What's that, $1000, $10,000 a ton? Now
that I ball-park figured it out, try and work that out yourself. If I live long enough; if I remain
cognitively functioning long enough which am wondering about, my typing skills have
just totally bombed, and to make a mistake like this above, a miscalculation a
week ago… the fatigue of years without a break, the stress, the anemia, the
calorie deficit….
But you know what?
I'm not the Dr.'s. But I am what our
doctors are not. I'm a parent, a Bangladeshi
father; and the father of a daughter in 2050 looking at what our visionless, imaginationless,
gutless, cowardly, intelligentsia have done to my daughter, and I've beamed
back to 2012 simply with the ability to put my body in the way. And because the doctors won’t give a straight
answer, won’t give us actionable information - what has to be done by when - as
they would if they saw this as their own children; without question as they
would demand if they saw this as their own children….
I'm not complaining,
but I'm furious. I'm furious at myself. I'm furious at the insanity of the left,
of the intelligentsia, that they think they own this problem, they think they
have the right to being respected, to be listened to; to people being patient
with them…. I, John Q Bangladeshi father; I John Q multibillion father of
upcoming generations; I'm John Q Athabascan father; I’m John Q native Alaskan
father; I'm John Q father of 2050 girl….
You, the ‘Doctors’ on the left might want me to be patient but God
dammit I'll not be. I'll do what I can to do your job of getting actionable
information and yes I'll screw up that more and more as my body breaks down. But you'll not stop me from trying. God damn
you. Romm, McKibben, not so much Brown
and Mann, Hansen, they seem to be doing their best. God damn Climate Progress.org, American Progress.org. It’s not American progress, it’s a frickin
club. Just try leaving a comment that they don't find pleasant, that they don't
find agreeable, that actually wants some answers. They won’t get published on
their blog.
My sense of it is
that it was the intelligentsia on the left that was guillotined in the French
Revolution – ‘Left them eat cake.’
So the best I know
now is - I don't know what the price per ton is, what the cost to the future of
each ton burned is, and I'll probably try and figure it out dammit. I didn't
need another thing to do.
But for now, I'm back
at the $240 ton of carbon which is what the economists calculate is needed to
bend the emissions curve down 6% per year starting now; 6% from the current
projection as I understand it, to keep this under 1.5° C. And that I consider bedrock - 1.5° C. I consider it bedrock of my stand, of the
stand you should make. Look at the
Copenhagen Diagnosis, Google it. That
was put together for the Copenhagen climate conference in large part, as I
understand it, was put together by in part the island nations, the developing
nations. But unless I'm wildly incorrect it's the best statement so far, which
I may be wildly incorrect on this, if what Romm said in “Hell and High Water,”
before he kowtowed to the powers that be, when a blind man could have seen we wouldn’t
get a climate agreement in Copenhagen, same with McKibben, not so much Mann and
Hansen. Brown essentially has caved with his, ‘wartime speed, oh, call your
congressman…’ for six years now. ‘Oh,’ says Brown,’ ‘well I feel encouraged how
things are going,’ he says. I don't think… I don't think he's a Bangladeshi
father, or an Athabascan father, or an indigenous Alaskan father, or the father
of 2050 daughter. I know he’s not. I
know he is more of a human than that. He
wouldn't keep putting out these mealymouthed prescriptions if it were his
family. But it is mine; John Q.
8.13.2012
GWDF2 Day 4 Death Fast - Slowing my Descent 800 cal per day, for now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDvey2a-6M
Rough Transcript:
Rough Transcript:
Day 4 - Slowing my
Descent 800 cal per day, for now
I'm tempted to say I
screwed up but rather I manifest our screwup.
This is not a one-man job, no disrespect to anyone else's effort. Coming up with a diagnosis and treatment plan
that will avert environmental Armageddon is not a one-man job. I can do it. I
have the aptitude. I have done this kind
of work my entire life, and I can do it alone.
But it at such a hideous, hideously, slow pace. Faster than anyone, because I realize it
needs to be done. But so much slower
than it needs to be done.
I don't know how many
days it's going to take me to answer the question that I thought I had answered
last week, which is fundamental to being able to articulate, and stand, and
win; a maximum of 1.5° rise.
I’m John Q, and if
you don't understand what that means you need to watch that movie, John Q I'm
not a heart surgeon but I am a dad, who's going to be buried by his son, I am
not going to bury my son.
I'm smart and I'm
determined and I have a background that enables me to do this, but there are
still too many gaps in my fundamental understanding.
See John Q. See that movie. See it see it tonight. In that movie his coldhearted, bureaucratic,
Dr. an administrator at least told him what was required to save his save his
son – ‘your son needs a new heart, he needs it now, or he’s going to die.
Our bureaucrats, some
of them told us the equivalence of this clarity up until Copenhagen, and now
they've they've waffled for years since Copenhagen, with tons of un-actionable
mealymouthed stuff coming out of them.
‘Your son's gonna die! Your sons
gonna die! Your sons gonna die! I do
something! Do something! Do something!’ Do
what!? By when?!
I don't intend to
leave this life until I can leave a clear answer to that. I don't know if it's
going to take me a couple more days, or another week or so; not to become a
brain surgeon, not to become a heart surgeon. John Q didn’t become a heart
surgeon. But I need to know, based on
the data that's out there, the Copenhagen Synthesis I now think is the document
I think I should point people to, not the Copenhagen Diagnosis which is part of
caving to the 2° C. No.
I'm certain that 1.5°
C maximum rise by 2100 is the avoidance of hell and high water but I need to
check that against Romm’s book by the name “Hell and High Water;” by Hansen's
work, by Mann’s work and by the Copenhagen Synthesis (not sure now), a PDF that
I just found. You should look at them as
well.
I need some
fundamental elements. I need to know how much additional carbon that enables us
to emit how much additional CO2 that we can put the atmosphere without risking
1.5 degrees C. I need to figure out
where methane seepage fits, a few figures in there, pieces of this puzzle; but
no one bothered pulling, pulling together.
So, I've got to
refigure the price per ton. I'm guessing that's the $240 but that's not good
enough, guessing, that is. When enough of us died to get the proper argument on
the table I need to give you a number. I need to get in the ballpark on what
the wreckage costs per ton of carbon is.
Now I just did some wild figuring and came up with $11,000 per ton. I
don't mean silly figuring out. Real
broad order of magnitude. I think it was
something like this is a currently a $70 trillion world economy, the next
thousand generations makes it a 70,000 trillion dollar world economy; I figured
something like 150 more billion tons of carbon that we could burn without
breaking 1.5 degrees C; took 20% of a 70,000 trillion dollar economy for the
next thousand years and figured we’re wrecking 20% of that, which is a
conservative figure given the economist Nicholas Stern's work, where he figures
initially we’re destroying 20% of world GDP, going up to 35% in the medium term,
and worse from there; and came out with if we are destroying only 20% of the
world economy, it is something like $11,000 per ton. This is huge.
It's a hell of a lot more than $240 per ton, and I want to know what
that is. You need to know what that is,
and I need to leave you with that.
So going about 800
cal per day for another couple of days, for another couple of weeks, I don't
know, but can't leave you without a clearer roadmap. All this will go into an
update of Tracking Plan B, of “Global Warming's Death. Fast.
It continues to
appear that what we have to accomplish is 6% decrease per year versus the
current trendline to stay below 1.5° C.
It appears that Hansen continues to have the humanity, continues to have
the balls to point us in the right direction.
But God bless him, and it isn't his job to know how to make the argument,
to win the argument.
It's been my entire
life doing such things. I see no one else doing it so I've got to leave you the
other information on which you can stand and know whether policy is giving you
that 6% decrease per year, how many tons of emissions, what's the maximum tonnage
of coal that can be burned and still stay below 1.5 degrees C. Oh, there are numbers out there for the
maximums to stay below 2° C. No. 2° C is Hell and High Water. Two degrees C is the oceans that the reefs
gone; a third to half the world's species gone; 6 foot sea level rise this
century. No. That's crazy and I don't know whether I’ll
have a breakthrough the next couple of days, or how long this is gonna take.
Watch for reports
that I'll try and post soon that are the what I consider to be the pieces that
we need to pull together, and help me, God dammit. This isn't rocket science. Its interpolation; it's good basic work; for
God sake help me.
Or tell me who's
already done it. But I need to know what
the treatment plan is to save our children; our next 200 billion children; and
I can't find it anywhere. I can't find anyone with enough humanity or
clumsiness to stand up with a clarity that the doctor and administrator did in
John Q, which means I got a try and fill that role for us.
GW's Death. Fast2. Day 4B - Operational Issues, Posting. Calorie-starved. JOYFUL.
- Operationally it has been a week of struggle to diagnose a solar batter that arrived smashed, partially, is if flaky, and to do what I've always done, massively help advance the connection between an emerging market, products, and early clients. What the solar companies do not know about their products, and therefore don't communicate, is stunning, but typical. Fact. Fact. GoalZero, the most promising vendor by far, an engineer there has figured out that I provide, more than I take, and he has been great. I'm doing some final diagnostic testing that is pretty automatic, so much less distracted from the real work. I literally outlined a buyer's guide, competitive, for them tonight that includes what I've had to spend 10's or more hours in recent years figuring out, researching, pulling together, pulling teeth....
- Dozens of important posts today to TPB . You know, if you haven't subscribed to the daily summary there, I can't fathom why you waste a second on anything to do with me. For Creation's sake, subscribe there, and get others to, and daily review the email summary you'll receive.
- My friend that could be of such hope to the world seems to be on the financial footing he needs to be for the trip he's talked about to scour the country's most promising places for the start of a mass wave of hunger strikes here in DC soon.
- For the first time in, oh, 10 years, my work is on a granite foundation for wifi, computer, electricity, and basic, basic, basic financial needs of the work. $5 for this. $10 for that. A miracle of which I'll always be in awe.
- Judging by lack of strength and physical sensations, unpleasant, my body is pretty calorie starved. It sure knows that for 3 days I had zero calories, and for the last two, just one day's rations between the two. The internal bleeding, or whatever it is, comes and goes in terms of what it feels like.
- Important vlogs I shot 2 days ago, the videos are up here http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4 , and here http://www.youtube.com/user/PlanBMovie ,
Joe Romm's public display of insanity: Romm's Book 'Language Intelligence' Insightful, Important Climate Central
| Climate Central (blog) - |
MY COMMENT, THAT LIKELY WON'T EVER BE SEEN:
Joe Romm is a nice man. I truly suspect that the same can be said of Nevile Chamberlain, Nero (tho I've studied him not at all)....
"Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing," Albert Schweitzer. It is indisputable that 80% of communication is unverbal. Unviolent action, one of the only two ways to bring radical change, is quintessentially unverbal ACTION; life service, not lip service.
The problem is, Romm, in one of the most pivotal, responsible positions in world history, yes, is determined to have the answer to every political problem to be 'rhetoric.' Do women have the right to vote because of rhetoric? Is that how slavery was ended? Was the removal of Mubarak a rhetorical achievement? And civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, apartheid....?
I have nothing but affection for Joe Romm, but there could hardly be a better example of the old maxim - 'If your only tool is a hammer, then the solution to every problem is a nail,' or something like that. Joe likes to write. He is good at it. It is safe. You can do it from a comfortable office. You can make good money at it. But those who serve humanity don't start, or end with, 'what do I like to do,' they relentlessly hold themselves to the standard, what do these times demand of me? Of us? Period.
Joe is in a position of leadership on the most crucial issue ever to confront humanity, environmental Armageddon with just seconds left on the clock, and to be using his valuable time and ours, directed toward rhetoric, when the competition is not rhetoric, but, A. the most heavily financed army ever to be on earth, the fossil fuel industry after $20 to 80 trillion in revenues, and B. the catatonic penchant of US citizens, especially the 'let them eat cake' left, liberals, progressive-ino's... to be bystanders in what needs to be a participatory government, Democracy, unending unviolent war, is a miraculous feat of madness by the otherwise brilliant, nice, immensely informed bureacrat, writer, blogger, and so far totally unsuccessful for decades in achieving his aims, Mr. Romm.
I wish Joe well. But frankly, my concern is the next 200 billion of my children, and, well, 'Nero worked on his rhetoric, while Rome burned.'
'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the good people that will not stand and do what is necessary to win,' MLK Jr paraphrase. Funny, the world has scarcely ever seen a greater rhetorician than Dr. King, and yet, like Gandhi and the other great Unviolent Leaders, Dr. King exhorted people to put their bodies in the way, not their lips.
The inscription on Gandhi's statue, here in DC, 'My Life is my Message.' But hey, he didn't go to MIT. He isn't fawned over by the do nothing left. So, let's just go with Mr. Romm's absurdity, shall we? I mean, if the next 200 billion children that we will thereby condemn to planetary "Hell and High Water," don't have a sense of humor, well, what worth are they?
What a tragedy.
http://TrackingPlanB.blogspot.com http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com
Video: Tar Sands Blockade is Taking A Stand in Texas It's Getting Hot In Here
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Well, in case you haven't heard since then Big Oil has been up to its old tricks and recently secured all the necessary permits to build the southern section of Keystone XL to the Gulf. The Canadian oil corporation, TransCanada, is planning to break ...
HUGE. HUGE. HUGE. GWDF2 Day 4B - CRUCIAL RECAP
Through sobs of wonder, at the Goodness:
My
sister SC has literally kept me alive physically, kept me from totally
drowning financially for my work, and physically kept me alive from earlier hunger strikes. I may well not have made it this far without
her, and her clan.
Now,
a new sister, that I've known a long, long, long time. But in recent
months she has come underneath my work like, well, like my Saint dad
was. [Why he didn't let me die, or have me killed, I'll never know.
Seriously. I was the most hideous zero of a spoiled, selfish, cowardly
child that has ever walked the earth. He MUST have seen something. I can't think of any other explanation. A Miracle.]
But, per the note below from my sister, below, the granite support, the granite
foundation, the 'Total Trust,' which I would rather die than be not
worthy of - this is a first, in 10 years of joyfully giving every single
breath for our global neediest Family, I've got full oxygen; financial
support - wifi, solar electricity, computer taken care of; no worries. YOU
HAVE NO FRICKIN IDEA. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE.
Yes
sister. For the first time in the ten or so years I've racing, warring
unviolently, for our global neediest, every breath, I don't feel like I'm on 10% of
the oxygen that one needs. I can breathe. For a moment at least, I'm off the psychological water-boarding of my work.
As
I reported yesterday, I'm on a 50% glide path toward death's door - 800
calories measured, per day - half rations (1 can soup @ 400 calories
(ckn corn chowder today), and 2 cans Ensure at 200 cal each). The
clinic, Unity Health Care for the homeless, no questions asked, from God, is 7 blocks away. I go in
Wednesday for the results of the recent blood work, and I'm hopeful of
them weighing me periodically; results I'd report out. I was 9 lbs over
weight, 164 lbs, several days ago.
While on the 50% downward slope I expect to count and report days as 4B, yesterday, and 4B, today.
Ever
since I saw Denzel Washington's "John Q" years ago I've found it deeply
troubling, deeply courageous as a movie, and profoundly enlightening
and wise. But only in recent weeks has it come really central to my
understanding of where we are.
The F*CKING DOCTORS AND BUREACRATS
(Brown, Romm, McKibben, Chu, Obama...) WON'T EVEN TELL US WHAT THE
TREATMENT PLAN AND TIME FRAMES ARE TO SAVE OUR NEXT 200 BILLION CHILDREN. TOTAL DIS-EMPOWERMENT!!!! WITHOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE OUR BALLS ARE CUT OFF!!!!
NO.
THIS WILL NOT STAND. With "Global Warming's Death. Fast." I took
major steps toward this, but I cannot leave you, I cannot pass on until
I've plugged the remaining holes.
John
Q became the force of, AN EMPOWERED VOLCANO OF HOPE FOR, the agent of salvation for
his beloved child when he knew the Treatment Required, and the Time
Frame required. HE DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE ONE STEP TOWARD BECOMING A HEART
DOCTOR. But he knew what he had to do to get the system to save his
son. And he did it.
Year
after year, decade after decade this is precisely what I've done in
life and death situations, and I'll do it again now, and leave it with
you all before I go - A TREATMENT PLAN, TIMEFRAMES. I'll give you all what you need, tho you have 80% of it from me already, but I'll finish the job, before I go, Creator willing.
Already, it is up to you now, but I'll finish my part for you.
Loving (what I go by; what I have ALL hope in. Nothing less from any of us, can save humanity now.)
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Good Morning Loving, (received today)
Just finished your last
video about Brian. So sorry about the turn of events for him and hear
your profound concern and committment toward assisting him. There are
absolutely no strings attached to any funds I put in your account.....I
totally trust you to act as your heart believes it should. Please do not
sell your solar panels as they are crucial to you....and I need to know
if they flake out on you permanently, as I would assist in replacement
for you.....
I plan to make another deposit
in your account.....so....I am hoping this will give assistance and some
sense of assurance, not sure that's the right word...but anyway....
XO Your sister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Start Loving <start_loving@yahoo.com> wrote:
- Major video logs today. Transcriptions in process.
- If I understand correctly Brian has lost his funding. If this means his planned trip cross country by bus can't happen, Loving can't allow that. Until I know otherwise, all the assets at my disposal are at his disposal for the trip to take place fully, and uninterrupted. I have a solar battery that can immediately go on ebay and should get $200. Maybe a solar panel for $200, if it is working and stable; and IF SHE DOES NOT OBJECT, funds given me yesterday by one of my 4 friends will be available IF NEEDED, for Brian's trip, UNLESS I HEAR FROM MY FRIEND IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY.
- Hopefully the problem with the solar equipment here has been figured out. I should know tomorrow.
- Among the video logs with transcripts are several dealing with my assertion that the Aim of the Death Fast is $311/ton of co2. I'm horrified by the lack of clarity from the intelligentsia on this. It was a failure of calculation on my part. No, $311 is incorrect. So, I revert for now to $240 per ton as the properly calculated cost to achieve the 6% reduction per year of emissions from current projections, Hansen, sufficient to keep us below 1.5 degrees C - Hell and High Water. HOWEVER, a central project for me now is to ballpark what a Human, Humane, Honest projection of the $$$ destruction of the world economy for the next 1000 generations is. My first try came up with $11,000 per ton. Current world economy is $70 trillion. Times 1000 years - what we are destroying, is $70,000 trillion. What remains to ball-park cost to humanity of each ton burned now, that I as a father of 200 billion kids needs to know, how many tons do we have left to burn before going past 1.5 degrees C is 15% likely or more (tell me if you have an estimate). With that I think I can ball-park the wreckage cost to humanity, for myself, as a father of the 200 billion who will be living in that world.
- I'm more outraged than ever, as a Father, of how gutless the experts are at telling us what we as Parents, Grandparents need to know. If this were the movie John Q, they wouldn't even have the guts to tell John what treatment was required and when it was required by. Criminal.
- Health update, recap - one of the videos covers that.
Loving
Injured Workers Sew Lips Shut in Hunger Strike to the Death Bay Area Indymedia
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Injured
workers from the General Motors Colmotores assembly plant in Bogota,
Colombia, after a year occupying the sidewalk in front of the U.S.
8.12.2012
nd 'Creative Tension. Dissipating it? Not the Source? No hope.' Loving
nd 'Creative Tension. Dissipating it? Not the Source Every Second? No hope.' Loving
Links Corrected - Aug 11: Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's. SUBSCRIBE. NOW.
Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Rep. Joe Walsh Applauds Ending Oil ...
ThinkProgress - 4 hours ago
“Get rid of subsidies for the big oil companies if you want. Do it,”
Walsh declared to loud applause, calling the move “important”: WALSH:
You can do anything you want to.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:28 PM PDT
New battery technology means more power for electric cars
Herald Sun - 8 hours ago
A SMALL battery company backed by General Motors is working on
breakthrough technology that could power an electric car more than 300km
on a single charge in the next two-to-four years, GM's CEO says.
GM may have breakthrough in electric battery technologyBend Bulletin
GM's Akerson promises 200
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:18 PM PDT
US should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: UN
Reuters - 6 hours ago
ROME (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the
United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the
danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops
for food over their use for fuel.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT
Greentech Media (blog)
Report: German Utilities Don't Want to Spend on Smart Grid
Greentech Media (blog) - 9 hours ago
Consulting firm Steria Mummert polled 100 German utility executives and
found that only half of them wanted to spend money on smart grid between
now and 2014. That's compared to three-quarters who planned to spend on
renewable energy, and 30 ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT
USDA Backs Smart Grid Efforts In Rural America
Renew Grid - 6 hours ago
To further improvements to electric lines and transmission and reduce
peak electric loads by deploying smart gridtechnologies, the U.S.
USDA provides funds for electric projects in Iowa, 17 other
statesDesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
US Agriculture Department to fund rural smart grid projectsEcoSeed
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Environment News Service
Largest UK Firms Must Disclose CO2 Emissions
Environment News Service - 2 hours ago
LONDON, UK, August 10, 2012 (ENS) - More than 1100 public companies
listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to report their greenhouse
gas emissions from next April under plans announced at the Rio+20
Summit that are now moving forward.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:04 PM PDT
Toronto Star
Way more pros than cons to energy efficiency
Toronto Star - 6 hours ago
But there are some who question whether energy efficiency is everything
it's touted to be. Specifically, they point to the idea that there is a
large rebound effect to increased energy efficiency. The concept here is
that when we use products that ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Extinction of U.S. fish species examined
UPI.com - 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- North American freshwater fishes are going
extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, a U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Pipeline protests spur companies to consider shipping oilsands crude by
rail
Montreal Gazette - 3 hours ago
OTTAWA - As battles rage over the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL
pipelines, governments and energy companies are eyeing other options for
transporting oilsands crude to foreign markets, including by rail, a
pipeline through the Northwest Territories ...
Alberta premier
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:38 PM PDT
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/scottish-headlines/100-renewable-energy-attainable-1-2461485
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT
if you have a natural-gas engine, methane is going to be a major part of that tailpipe
http://eponline.com/articles/2012/08/10/cheaper-and-cleaner-catalyst-for-burning-methane.aspx
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:17 PM PDT
http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2012/08/10/natural-gas-a-briefing-paper-for-candidates/
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT
Ice sheets took 'thousands of years to grow'
Independent Online - 14 hours ago
The report, examining the Earth's orbit around the sun in a 100000-year
cycle of cold and warmth, showed that ice sheets took thousands of years
to grow at the start of Ice Ages and surprisingly lagged a quicker
cooling of the oceans. That delay, and ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Drought Cited as US Predicts Corn Yield at 17-Year Low
New York Times - 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
- With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the
United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the
annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest
level since 1995.
US drought threatens food price surgeFinancial Times
Corn
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT
World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and
Deforestation
Scientific American (blog) - 6 hours ago
But the Queen Alexandra's butterfly, named after the wife of King Edward
VII of England, faces an ever-shrinking habitat due to deforestation in
its only home, the rainforests of PNG, and conservationists fear that
the species may soon run out of room ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT
Telegraph.co.uk
Child hunger: the biggest obstacle to global development
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago
As a global
leader on the issue, Unicef has long since recognised the huge barrier
child undernutrition represents to international development.
Hunger: Irish and experts focus on children, research and small farmersWorld and Media
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT
Where the world's running out of water, in one map
Washington Post (blog) - 3 hours ago
And with the global population
soaring past 7 billion, this is one of the biggest questions the world
is now facing. Can better conservation practices and new technology
enable farmers to keep feeding the planet without depleting its most
important ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Proposal For Floating Offshore Wind ...
North American Windpower - 4 hours ago
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) has taken the next step in the assessment of a
proposed project to demonstrate floating offshore wind technology on the
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of ...
Feds seek competitors to Statoil for Maine
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT
Rotating Solar Thermal Collector Targets Cheap Renewable Energy
Revmodo - 1 hour ago
Rather
than a futuristic gun designed to destroy the moon, the structure is
actually a solar thermal collector–a 10 foot by 10 foot device designed
to follow the sun across the sky–and could put us on the fast track to
cheaper solar energy. Unbeknownst ...
New Solar Power Design Inspired by
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:49 AM PDT
A Handy Guide to Global Warming Diseases
The Atlantic Cities (blog) - 3 hours ago
Increased rainfall, warmer
temperatures, dying reefs and hotter oceans are handing diseases that
afflict humans - algal, fungal, mosquito-borne, tick-borne - a chance to
spread, meaning diseases previously unheard in the U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT
Experts link climate change to animal products consumption
Inquirer.net - 5 hours ago
Better
believe it, environment experts claim the weather we have today is
partly the result of our appetites. Although the causes of climate
change is no doubt multifaceted, livestock propagation to meet the
world's incessant appetite for animal ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT
On Floods, China Blames Climate Change
Forbes - 4 hours ago
A recent bout with rain induced flooding from two typhoons has the
Chinese government warning that climate change will undoubtedly bring
more natural disasters.
Climate change will bring more heavy rains in ChinaJakarta Post
As Severe Storms Overwhelm China's Infrastructure, Experts Warn That
Climate ...ThinkProgress
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT
Day
2 and I feel like day 60. Wow. Day 2 has never felt like this.
Is it the blood tests that say anemia, the diagnosis, or is it the
diagnosis, the anemia hitting me. My backpack that was 35-45 libs now
feels 80. My 2lb each Secret Service boots now feel 8lb each.
There is likely hospital time ahead for the Death Fast and this month
was the month I had to renew my Medicade so today has
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