Will you join in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’?
As you watch this compelling animated video presentation ask yourself if you want to become part of the solution to the problems we face of our own making.
You can be the solution as a single voice that joins many others. Personally I have and am committed to being engaged to create change in our troubled world. When I wrote my book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions I acknowledged my role as an unwitting contributor with the following passage in the introduction chapter.
Excerpt:
We teach our children simply “This is a book—say book! This is a cat. This is a dog.” They see it and understand. We teach them right from wrong. We teach them how to share, but to some extent, through our actions we teach them how not to. Inadvertently we have shown them the wrong way to value their worth instead of the right way. We have told them that the true measure of a person’s worth is what they contribute during their time on Earth, but we have taught them with our toil how important it is to amass as many material possessions as we can in the shortest possible time. We have shown them how to consume. We have told them not to be greedy and shown them how to be. We, you and I, learn through life the true value of life, but by the time some of us fully understand love, compassion, and caring for our fellow man, we have already imbedded in our children the same values we once held as our principal purpose, the accumulation of personal wealth. End Excerpt.
In chapter 10 Designed for Demise is written:
We tell our children to share but we show them how not to. Finite resources means going, going, gone. But every industrialized process, every commercial practice, every economic activity, every consumption pattern, revolves around the depletion of finite resources until they are going, going, gone.
And I finish the chapter with:
Future generations will not have the resources on which we have built the industrial and economic model of the developed and developing nations. They will need to survive without them and adapt their lives to survive. They will need to develop infinite and sustainable systems. They will have no other choice. If they do not adapt they will perish. I have confidence that they, with survival of the species of man at stake, will find new ways of living within the boundaries of the natural system, taking no more than can be provided with infinite sustainability. It will be the world we have left them and the only one available.
It cannot be a system designed for demise.
Now watch; and decide if you wish to join me and others and the ‘Coalition of the Willing’
Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.
Posted: July 3rd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, global warming
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