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

Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Great Climate Change Conspiracy

This 17:40m video was produced by Truthloader, a YouTube channel, a project of ITN Productions (Britain).

The video explores the conspiracy conducted by the fossil fuel industry and their collaboraters (for example, see this article) throughout the capitalist world to sow doubt about and/or deny the scientific evidence of the growing threat of climate destabilization which is likely to end in the extinction of humans.