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Saw Inconvenient Truth, Now What?

A tiny little green card caught my attention at the coffee house yesterday:

First you stopped littering.  Then you started recycling.  Now become NET GREEN.  Offset your green house gas emissions today.  Be part of the solution. 

This was a card for gwef.org.  A local area group helping people reduce their carbon loads on the environment.    Here is an excerpt from their website. 

The Global Warming Reality

We all produce green house gas (GHG) emissions – it is simply a part of existing as an individual or a business in our society today. As people become more aware of the global warming issue, however, many are looking for a way to become a part of the solution in their every day lives. Unfortunately, the issue can be daunting, leaving many feeling helpless to make a difference with their limited resources and time. That is, until now…

Families in the U.S. could be neutral now for as little as $100 to $200 per year offsetting 10 to 20 tons of GHG ( Greenhouse Gas) emissions TODAY* If your yearly payment was $150.00, that would be just $12.50 per month or $.42 cents per day. *Based on average emissions per person.

Polygamists of Utah II

The most frequently read article on this blog is my first article on the Polygamists of Utah.  It gets about three hits every day.  They capture some people's attention. 

I think, from my certain vantage point, they share much in common with fundamentalist Muslims.  How does this idea sound?  What if we adopted a Muslim foreign exchange program and had fundamentalist Muslims move over and spend time in the towns where the Polygamists of Utah reside, possibly living with these Mormoms. It seems the two groups share some core values, dress in equally conservative ways, and have a more patriarchal family structure than most modern Americans. 

How would they receive each other?  Would it promote world peace? 

So, I want to save the world, where do I go?

Have you seen the movie Inconvenient Truth. Go see it. I think it's so well done it should be every American's civic duty to see it.  We are possibly killing the planet and making this an uninhabitable place if we don't change our habits, systems and culture. 

I wrote Steve Habib, a great connector in the local area, about ways a person could plug in if motivated to make a difference in saving our people and planet.  Here is his response:

Here are a few suggestions.  I'll send you more if I think of them.

The regional organization that comes to mind regarding the issues of
Global Warming is called Climate Solutions.  See
http://www.climatesolutions.org

Their offices follow.  I think their Seattle office would be one of the
best possible places to start in this area.

Main Office:
219 Legion Way SW, Suite 201, Olympia, WA 98501-1113
Phone: 360-352-1763; Fax: 360-943-4977
Email: [email protected]

Seattle Office/Northwest Climate Connections
1601 2nd Avenue, Suite 615. Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-443-9570; Fax: 206-728-0552

The World Urban Forum is occuring in Vancouver as we speak.  See
http://www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/default.asp  It will be followed by the
World Peace Forum.  See http://www.worldpeaceforum.ca/

The Omidyar Network may be doing a lot of things of interest to you and a
great way to connect with like-minded people.  Their public forum is at
http://www.omidyar.net/home/ and an overview of their organization is at
http://www.omidyar.net/

Phil Mitchell, a software tool builder and community organizer, has
started an initiative called 2People with the intention of building a
movement around these issues.  But, it is very much a grassroots kind of
thing -- don't know if that would be of interest to you or not.  Info at
http://www.2people.org

In Community,

Steve "Habib" Rose
[email protected]
Seattle, Washington, USA

I suggest that you plant a tree, motivate someone to see Inconvenient Truth, or figure out how you can best use your talents, skills and connections to make a difference.  What will you say about your behavior in 2006 when the next generation asks, "What were you thinking when you still had a chance to make a difference in the quality of life here on planet earth?" 

I hope you can say, "I got the message things were at the critical stage and did something."

Blessings to you.

My Ten Minutes

It's 10:46. I've got ten minutes to share my particular truth with the world. Here is what I know today that is important for all of you to hear.

The world is going to hell and a hand basket.  Ask anyone with any brains and he or she will cite you statistics horrible enough to make an old cowboy plump up like a juicy grape.  We are murdering ourselves; killing beautiful, riveting  places of indescribable natural beauty and wonder;  having a planet full of babies that we cannot support and raise in the dignity that those precious beings deserve; we are a planet filled with fear-based humans who aren't very evolved psychologically;  on the other side of the globe -and that doesn't necessarily mean north or south, east or west hemispheres, I'm speaking  metaphorically here, the others of us are so confident, so certain, so convinced that we know it all that we are hard for the rest of the inhabitants here on planet earth to tolerate.

So enough bitching. 

We're fucking it up. 

Pardon the tough language here. But tough times, call for tough words. 

The good news is:  for all of you who watched Star Trek; for all of you who cheered in ET or at the cool scenes in the Terminator when the good guys won; or when the even better guys in Star Wars won (the first one);  for all of you people who ever hoped to be on a truly meaningful spiritual path; or to be born into interesting times (you know the Chinese wish a blessing on people that they may be born in interesting times); or the people who think, or have thought, being on a really cool adventure would be amazing; or thought that the second coming of Christ (or the first coming) or any other version of resurrection, judgment day, or any other myth, story or religious prognostication that the world screeches forward to a new level of love and wonderment; well, for any of you: 

well, for you....

let's just pretend that day is here,

and act accordingly. 

In my mind, it's time for decisive right action, by everyone, on all levels; and what that means for you is yours alone to know.

Two minutes to go:  here's the final one, two punch:

It's time we step up and start being as smart as we have been trained to be;
and as loving as the most kind-hearted, spectacular  loved-ones have taught you to be;
and it's time for every person on this planet to be an army of one
in the crusade to make this place- planet earth-
one great location to reside.

If we don't,
I do believe in our next incarnation we'll all be back
to being a bunch of ants starting over,
trying to get it right for once.

We've waited too long in human evolution to not start getting it right.

We're too smart for that.

Wake up and start doing things the way you know you should be doing them. 

From your heart, mind, and with that terrific, stubborn will you were given at birth.

10:57.   Ooops.   One minute over time.

The Truth from Everyone

Tracking blogging stats and charting data becomes addictive if you do it enough.  I'm starting to get strangely excited about checking  my visitor hits every day.  Is this some techy-fetish thing?

Today I had 45 hits. What is amazing to me is that you are not visiting for the same reason. I have a diverse readership is my guess.  I'm rather excited to know who you mystery readers are?  Who are you?  Why did you stop by this blog?

I am such a new-comer to the technology realm, I may be noticing odd on-line behaviors that others of you have known and accepted as normal for years now.  This emergence of on-line communities is so futuristic to me. It's hard for me to reconcile that this level of sophistication and inter-relating exists on the same planet where starvation, child infanticide, and genocide is occurring.  There is extreme diversity of reality on this planet.

Here's a large thought:

What if, ...

what if...

(This literary technique is supposed to get you to slow down. Really slow.  Slow way down so that this next question hits you when you are calm, slow and most open.)

So here is the the very important question of the day:

What if  every single person on this planet knew something very important for everyone- every other person on this planet- and that person was given a place to post that information; and then we created a new book, sort of a living new encyclopedia, or a new bible, or new science text; and then some super brilliant statistician, or computer geek with access to the world's largest computer, coded and digested the entire 6-billion (is that how many of us are on this planet?) entries.  What would that look like, read like, sound like, move like?  Would that much truth  in one (enormous) place shift the magnetic poles of the planet?   That would be one powerful book wouldn't you agree?

What an amazing project.  Maybe that is what the Internet is supposed to be.  The collection of our best. The new world library.  (Did Bill Gates already say that?)

What would be your contribution to world truth?  What would be your most important message if you had one 10-minute block of time to broadcast to the world?

I'm going to go do my 10-minutes in the following blog.  Join me please.  Ladies and gentlemen, start your clock...  What do you, and only you, need to tell this planet right now?