Climate Emergency in Local Politics

Posted 14th of June to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill Southland NZ

The call for Environment Southland to declare a Climate Emergency and to join other regional environmental agencies has been building.
I guess this will test the metal of the region to see if we have the will to tackle the mother of all environmental problems instead of the usual small change stuff.
I just hope our will to survive has not become political as it has in certain other nameless countries across the seas.

Just remember step one in fixing a problem of any magnitude is to name it.  What the Media calls Climate Change and experts amongst there colleges call the Anthropcene Outbreak is here.
We humans caused it... We fix it... Together...

UNITED STATES OF EARTH (aka the real UN)

Posted 24th May 2019 to the Odentroll blog www Planet Earth.

Future Shock: What would be a stable government for the preservation of humanity and the natural world? If you dig around in old books there is one idea that american progressives might just relate to.

What if the US Federal Government with it's global money supply, language and military opened the doors to all nations to have seats equal to a US state and US states could be upgraded to small nation states.

It is clear as the Anthropocene changes sweep the planet all humans are going to need to pull together.

Competition and War amongst nations is toxic to life and a Central Justice and Research Government will be essential to maintaining our lives and our environment.

The current system of endless conflict, greed and humiliation based on primal emotions is well past it's use by date.

Today there is a wave of intelligent progressive brave young people and old campaigners read to fix the system and bring us all into a better future.

It would just be rude not to let them try...

Michael Barbaro - Climate Even Horizon

Posted 8th December 2018 to the New York Times NY NY USA

Bernie Sanders the uncrowned People’s President has spelt out what we need to do to save us all from ourselves and our planet when the Trump Show leaves Washington  perhaps your own Michael Barbaro could give us some Idea of a time frame.
The Population of Earth is needing to make plans and this event will be a seismic shift so we need to know where to invest our time and money or there WILL be utter panic.

It is clear that the main “action” hold outs are the evangelical Trump base who are clearly into doomsday in a big way.
I am pretty sure the great Mr Bezos is not one of them, so go for it Michael :-)

Sounds like a job for the New York Times of Old. 

Missing Leaders of the Anthropocene

Posted 29th November 2018 to the Dominion Post Newspaper Wellington New Zealand.

I see Fairfax has opened up a discussion on Climate Change caused by the great Antropocene population Outbreak 
I have observed that the problem with any action is that the population is waiting for leaders to tell us what to do.
I always imagined that the President of the United States would lead the way with a Special TV announcement and was somewhat surprised that President Obama dealt with broaching the issue as a throw away comment to a journalist stating “Of Course Climate Change is Real” in passing.. Only to be surpassed by president Trump’s Chinese Hoax statement a couple of years later.

We seemed to have now reached an impasse where we have a stressed population awaiting instructions and awaiting Leaders. Children & teenagers take it the worst as they don’t get a feeling our civilisation really wants to carry on.

Many Humans are really creative, adaptive and some are very cleaver but really great leaders are very hard to come by.
And we don’t look for them, they have to come forward.
Let’s hope they can get their act together sooner than later. 

     

Fairfax Media - Anthropocene Stance

Posted 28th November 2018 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

I read Nov 28th Patrick Crewdson says print media should make human made Climate change a serious subject.
I knew this back in the 1970s when Gordon Rattray Taylor brought out a popular book on the subject but yet
we are still waiting for popular movement to rise. This may be happening if the new blood in the US Congress can float the Green New Deal but part of the problem is The Media did not find the right tag, they used Global Warming and then Climate Change,  Social Media has the Anthropocene Outbreak which is more to the point, it is the cause not the Symptom but most modern journalists can’t deal with that.

Here is a thought, if we are to take this problem seriously we have to be honest with each other  Humans are what is known in science as an outbreak species.

However we are highly adaptive and cleaver, if we pull together on this and stop mindlessly humiliating each other we could turn the ship around.

Seriously what else have we got to do ?   Build more Walls?