Global Warming's New Math

[Joseph Tracy]

This just doesn't and can't work. Those currently electable may prefer a future in this world( everyone does, all paradises are this world made satisfying to larger appetites), but their entire plan for securing the future they "prefer"  is in direct undermining opposition to that future. This belief in a better, less sold out party seems to me not hope but dreamy self delusion. If every single policy followed by Obama had been the policy and practice of a Republican president it would be reviled. 

The changes that are needed will not come from the power establishment because the changes involve not a benignly  enlightened platonic demi-god but the localization and distribution of wealth and power according to watersheds, bioregions and small accountable governments. It's not a question of who has the keys to the car, it's a question of driving the car at all.

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ian Livingston
> <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's appropriate to recall the chorus of the Crusades: "It's God's will!" As if, I
>> mean, wtf, one of the premises of the various People of the Book is that
>> God's ways are beyond mortal understanding. One might suspect the
>> arrogance often associated with poor self-esteem in the addictive ego structure.
> 
> This is why it's preferable to have people who'd prefer a future in
> THIS world with their fingers on all the various buttons/triggers/what
> have you.
> 
> This, e.g., http://www.randomhouse.com/book/141602/arsenals-of-folly-by-richard-rhodes
> is enlightening in that regard.