Comments on: Survival is not negotiable!

By: robert

robert — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:28:53 +0000

Question your world.

Let your questions be heard.

It’s easy as pie.

http://urtak.com/u/cop15

Thank you.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:02:13 +0000

My hope for the 350 day of action is that it will not only result in a lot of great pictures that capture our collective dream of a sustainable and just future, but that those who want such a future actually take power into their own hands and at least for a day act decisively – not just symbolically – towards those ends. Hopefully those bicyclists will pedal their way to a coal plant gate and use there bodies and bicycles to (nonviolently) obstruct the plant’s operation. World leaders and politicians alike are well aware of our hopes, and a day of photo shoots isn’t going to convince them or warm their hearts into writing a good climate treaty for us, though it may open the pockets of the non-profit industrial complex’s fat-cat patrons to continue funding our antics while the PPM rise.

That quote “it will be a test of humankind’s readiness to leave its short-sightedness, selfishness, nationalism, and greed behind, and unite itself, for the first time ever, to prevent a planetary catastrophe and together build a happier, more sustainable world,” is a beautiful, but very dangerous, idea. Copenhagen will be a test of heads of states and the international corpratocracy’s readiness to leave its short-sightedness, selfishness, nationalism, and greed behind – and to bet anything on that, let alone the fate of billions, on their ability, or more importantly, willingness, to build a happier more sustainable world is simply irresponsible.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:58:01 +0000

Thanks for an inspiring post, which I read while preparing for a meeting with my senator this morning. One hundred twenty days is not much time. We’ve all got to get to work.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:17:44 +0000

This is truly great: “it will be a test of humankind’s readiness to leave its short-sightedness, selfishness, nationalism, and greed behind, and unite itself, for the first time ever, to prevent a planetary catastrophe and together build a happier, more sustainable world.” Thank you for sharing this piece in this forum, and for all the work you do.