I think it is reasonable to assume that those who mainly got us into climate chaos are not going to get us out of it. Business and political elites are pursuing business as usual or re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Carbon trading will be based on corporate ’self-regulation’ and will thus, by definition, not work. It will merely help nuclear and ‘clean coal’ become ‘more competitive’. These latter two technologies in turn will mean an even greater wrecked future of nuclear contamination and more carbon emissions (to maintain the nuclear cycle, as escaping gas from underground storage). Our leaders are thus playing Russian roulette with the atmosphere, risking horrific climatic tipping points, just to maintain the capitalist industrial system and their power within it. Objectively, they are thus a grave danger to the security of our children. To appeal to them is naive and pointless. The challenging fact is: WE OURSELVES are the people we have been waiting for to provide the solutions. Rationally, only our actions (or lack thereof) can provide any hope for a lower carbon future. I would suggest that re-localisation of the economy and civil disobedience are the only realistic way to go. Some of the specific possibilities of the former are being talked about in the Food Group and could be further discussed in CanWin. Here are some first ideas to get the ball rolling on the latter: 1. BOYCOTT (climate killing products, events and companies, attack their PR images) 2. OSTRACISE (all order-givers in climate killing business and politics, no longer talk to them) 3. DISINVEST (get churches, councils, funds to disinvest in all climate killing and nuclear companies) 4. OCCUPY (offices of climate killing and nuke companies and political Fed reps till all taxpayer subsidies to fossil fuel and nukes are redirected to energy and water conservation and renewables, 90% emissions cuts by 2050,  environmental refugees are accepted) 5. CREATIVE BILLBOARDING  6. GREEN GUERRILLA (planting of useful seedlings for fruit, nuts, coppice in public areas and nature strips).

Peter

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