Canada Worse than US?

Here is an article on how the tar sands industry is killing Canada, in many ways:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal

One Simple Copenhagen Action

Sorry for the long absence to any of you who kept checking for updates.

Here is a simple thing to do, sign and send a letter to 198 delegates to the climate talks in Copenhagen, compliments of Climate Ark, asking them to do away with any language that allows old forests to be cut and replanted to plantations in any sort of REDD or carbon scheme.

If you are a Facebook or other social network user, please share this action far and wide.

Thanks,
Brien

Watch This Video

My apologies for the tardiness in posting this, but do have a look at Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel's video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2MKVkY5Dk

Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes

See here.

Fertile Crescent 'will disappear this century'

So on the heels of that last post, I discovered this article. And it seems so appropriate to link to it here given what I just shared. The Cradle of Civilization will be uninhabitable by 2100. The irony of this is that it may also correlate to the collapse of civilization itself. As one of my favorite authors, Derrick Jensen, states, "Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels." If there is not a massive worldwide grassroots effort to gently dismantle all these unsustainable human systems, collapse is inevitable, and if the climate scientists are right, it'll be happening this century.

No more beating around the bush on this blog.

If I ever choose to make time for it, I'll be updating some of my early posts with regards to "solutions." Since most of what I proposed will never be accepted by the politicians, and much of that was already compromising on my part, I may as well propose (and clearly explain) solutions that I truly believe in.

Will that be an effective use of my time? Probably not, but it may help me further clarify my position, which will make it easier to discuss all this when the opportunity presents itself. And will expanding a few minds prevent climate catastrophe? Very likely not. But it is a relatively easy task amidst the millions we need, and we may as well do all we can.

Brien