Surviving Capitalism (Not) : 2000–2009, The Warmest Decade

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

2000–2009, The Warmest Decade

WMO is the United Nations System’s authoritative voice on weather, climate and water. This very comprehensive study will not be reported in your 6 o’clock evening news broadcast. But some scientist somewhere in the world, probably funded directly or indirectly by major corporations, will report that this decade was cooler, and this will be reported everywhere.