Rainy overcast days are conducive to reflection. Yesterday Sven and I went walking at Dyer Pond, an ideal place to think about nature and the ongoing destruction of the environment. The serenity at Dyer Pond gives pause.
Disconcerting realization: leadership on global warming and the environment, ie. the future of life on this planet, is not happening. Government seems to be failing us on a regular basis. Look at the way the Gulf oil spill was handled, at how the climate bill was blocked. Even the media no longer does a satisfactory job. We must look elsewhere for inspiration, to Canada, which will ban BPA, to Facebook, where strangers can exchange constructive ideas, to Europe, which protected its citizens from GM crops and toxins a decade ago. I’m excited to be starting a working group here in Wellfleet to study ways to improve our community by going green, one town among many in search of transition. When inspiration does not come from above, we must find it within ourselves …
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Stan · 760 weeks ago
Throughout American history, action takes place when individuals step up to a challenge. Whether it was rebelling against the crown's taxation without representation, the New England abolitionists demanding to be heard without equivocation, one lady refusing to give up a seat on a bus, blue collar middle America waking up to be heard at "TEA" rallies, or neighbors pruning a right-of-way, change always starts with individual choice and individual action. By each one of us living mindfully and making conscious choice when we shop, act, live, we manifest change. And when communities change, they are then best equipped to elect representatives that share and reflect those values.
Installing an ideologue at the top of a strong centralised power structure, and expecting change to be mandated and enforced upon a weary populous, can't work in an ultra-diverse, strongly individualist nation without having to endure the pendulum swinging back the other way eventually.
Lasting change for the better often comes from internal reflection and choice, not external or governmental coercion.
We are presently at the mercy of the expansion of the Chinese economy. ON average, 2 new coal fired powerplants comes online in China each week! Wind turbines in our backyard won't help if we buy goods made with cheap totally unregulated carbon emitting energy. Ross Perot was laughed at in 1991 but he was right: NAFTA and China's MFN trade status have been a disaster: a global environmental disaster.
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