Will 9/20 Replace 4/22 As Earth Day???

[stringertom]

And why settle for just one day to honor our very beautiful spaceship that we are sadly hellbent on riding into the scrapyard???

So proud of Greta; so proud of 100 Grannies. They are but the tip of the spear!

 

[Deleted member 743561]

Astonishing movement.

Attended one of the marches today.

Even if Earth is past the tipping point, there is remarkable energy and unity for the cause of a better tomorrow amongst that generation.

I’ve been wondering about what devotion to such a massive movement at this age does to a person. Is Thunberg already at the stage of delegating and outsourcing? Where’s she go next? Still a kid.

I think social media is something of a scourge, but the earliest marches/rallies/protests, etc. could not have been on this global scale at another time.

 

[stringertom]

Astonishing movement.

Attended one of the marches today.

Even if Earth is past the tipping point, there is remarkable energy and unity for the cause of a better tomorrow amongst that generation.

I’ve been wondering about what devotion to such a massive movement at this age does to a person. Is Thunberg already at the stage of delegating and outsourcing? Where’s she go next? Still a kid.

I think social media is something of a scourge, but the earliest marches/rallies/protests, etc. could not have been on this global scale at another time.

Original Earth Day 1970 in the US was giant! It was the spring after Woodstock and the anti war march on Washington. Young people were accustomed to gatherings of thousands in that era. Sadly, it was matched if not dwarfed by Kent State demonstrations after the slaughter of colleges students on the Ohio campus by National Guardsmen just two weeks later.

 

[SoBad]

You guys are wild. I am an angel -- never marching, never demonstrating, always cooperating with the authorities.

 

[Deleted member 743561]

Original Earth Day 1970 in the US was giant! It was the spring after Woodstock and the anti war march on Washington. Young people were accustomed to gatherings of thousands in that era. Sadly, it was matched if not dwarfed by Kent State demonstrations after the slaughter of colleges students on the Ohio campus by National Guardsmen just two weeks later.

The signage was so creative.

Some of them put serious time into this. A ton of humor, too!

Ties in with hope, for me.

It’s infectious.

Can’t imagine this is for naught. I don’t know if any of the consequences for the folks who looked the other way will be enough.

 

[stringertom]

The signage was so creative.

Some of them put serious time into this. A ton of humor, too!

Ties in with hope, for me.

It’s infectious.

Can’t imagine this is for naught. I don’t know if any of the consequences for the folks who looked the other way will be enough.

As usual, it all boils down to the Benjamins. If you have them and you think change will reduce the flow of them, you find friends in high places that will fight for your status quo cause. The mercenaries, upon payment, will do your bidding.

Sorry to rain on the parade. I started a thread a few weeks ago about going just a bit more green (Paul Simon theme). Should I bump it for you???

 

[Deleted member 743561]

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[Azure]

Unless decision makers do something and it is not a huge financial trade off, I see such nonsense happening. Only recently did I come across this -

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ec...ings-nestle-bottled-water-2640064483.amp.html

If the govt makes a decision what can activists or marches do? The responsibility lies with us citizens to elect intelligent and well read individuals to power. Alas

 

[stringertom]

Unless decision makers do something and it is not a huge financial trade off, I see such nonsense happening. Only recently did I come across this -

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ec...ings-nestle-bottled-water-2640064483.amp.html

If the govt makes a decision what can activists or marches do? The responsibility lies with us citizens to elect intelligent and well read individuals to power. Alas

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. See Mother & Child Reunion thread.

The ballot box will be key. Be galvanized to get organized! Work to change one person’s mindset tomorrow and then one more person the day after.

If a teen girl with Asperger’s syndrome in Stockholm can strike from school to protest inaction by her leaders, so can you! She came to America via an eco friendly sailboat across the Atlantic just to speak her mind. No carbon footprint, unlike the celebrity princess to attend another failed coronation of her dear friend two weeks ago. Maybe the Meghan Markles of the world will wake up! Sound the alarm! Our house is on fire!

The most poignant moment I witnessed today was an interview of an 82-year-old Iowa grandmother who has been arrested four times for protesting against climate change denying officials. Her friend, another one of The 100 Grannies said it best, “We’re the ones that helped make this mess. Now we have to help clean it up!”

 

[Azure]

@stringertom @FedFosterWallace

Let's make this thread the climate thread. May be the stories and inspirational posts we share here will influence some of our fellow posters here?

 

[stringertom]

Heart wrenching moment today for me was the interview of a marine biologist dealing with massive increases of marine wildlife death in the Gulf of Mexico area adjacent to the Mississippi delta. Due to flood conditions upriver from the mouth of America’s longest river system, the Army Corps of Engineers decided to open conduits to Lake Pontchartrain to allow excess “freshwater” to feed into the massive lake. Water volume in the lake increased 8x its natural capacity and began to flow into saltwater Gulf of Mexico. Saltwater habitat cannot adapt to freshwater and all the pollutants in the runoff water, developing skin and gill lesions that kill them rather rapidly. The kill ratio just this summer was increased tenfold.

In addition to the eco deaths, farming this year has been “the worst in 30 years” according to lifelong farm owners in The Delta. Many won’t survive the crash.

Our borders are jammed with refugees from Central America, most of whom leave their homes due to famine there brought on by failed crops and barren fields brought on by a climate change induced lengthy drought in places like Guatemala. Coffee growers can’t grow their crop so they’ve switched to bananas, a much lower income yielding venture.

“If you want to see a glacier in Glacier National Park, come now!” says a USGS scientist. He has witnessed 75% of the ice fields disappear in the last 20 years on the job.

And, yet, some deny the house is on fire.