Discuss: How to Be a Climate Hero

Steve, thanks so much for the breath of fresh air (pun definitely intended!) Maia

I dress as a Polar Bear and stand on the street corner of busy intersections.I hold a sign that says “Stop Global Warming” I wave and smile People in SUV’s big trucks wave and smile back.I drive an ageing Prius..I have it all decorated signs that say “Stop Global Warming"."No war for Oil"etc.The message is that fancy cars are not important..I attend meetings in the Polar bear suit.I wish others would get out there in Polar Bear suits bec.the media is so controlled that the citizens hardly stand a chance of knowing what the World’s best scientists are saying.I learn from others in the Green Party.I spend no time reading blogs from Oil industry plants.

Jean,

Wear a hair shirt and stand sweltering in a polar bear suit if those are your choices of modes of worship at the altar of the new environmentalist religion. 

But please, do not press for action in response to computer model calculations that, based on a discredited hypothesis (carbon dioxide-induced climate change).  The actions sought by the radical environmentalists will cause harm and death, just as falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater will cause harm and death. 

You can ignore the results of valid scientific investigations if you wish, but by so doing you should forfeit the rights to claim to be informed on the subject and to offer advice to others.

No one who reads the newspaper or watches news shows can possibly with a straight face, claim that the public is not inundated, by the messages of the false prophets of doom.

The oldest Prius is 5 years old...not bad, that is not yet considered a beater.

Sad to see commentary here devolving to a familiar mean and personally insulting tone so ubiquitous on the internet.

Orion comment threads have been among the most respectful and non-inflammatory. That is why I participate.

Making the effort to deal with hard truths and disagreements without becoming rude and vindictive, is an essential part of what we humans must do in order to survive. Together. Whatever the weather, natural or political.

This is one of the best and most persuasive articles on taking action on climate change I have seen for a long time. Thank you Audrey Schulman!

I’m proud to say that I was born green back in 1952 when Things (including the Climate) were much safer, sweeter and easier. My grandfather was a scrap dealer - one of the first Recyclers in the county. 

Luckily, because of my Parentage, I started young - at age 6 as an avid cyclist and now bike everywhere - at least 1 hour a day, accruing some 10 miles daily on the odometer.

Today, after 55 years, it’s horrifying to see what’s happening to our only Home, the Planet Earth because of Greed and Over-Comsumption.

REALLY:  Ask yourself:  How much do you really need?  Study people in 3rd world countries and see what they exist on.  Cut down and cut out the frivolties in life.  You can do it. It can be done. The effect is a much healthier YOU.  The effect is a much healthier PLANET.

How I become a GREEN Hero - as the Article stands should be extended to ALL THINGS GREEN.  I feel it is it’s much more than Climate that is is ‘at arms’ here.  On a daily basis, I make it a point to meet people and instill in them a Sense of Duty to do something green every day.  My Grass-Roots Mode is through a 24.5 inch Toy Frog with an 11 inch Grin that I’ve cleverly named GORF (which is FROG back-words).

Wherever I go (stationed and housed in Chicago - now known as
chicaGORF, IL USA) I meet People - once total strangers who will come up to me - as they are curious as to what I’m doing walking around Town with a 24.5 inch Toy Frog.

Once this ‘proverbial ice’ is broken, it’s easy to engage these folks in a conversation.

Let’s not forget, most people see a large urban area as a place where people just are not friendly, who won’t help you if you’re laying in a pool of blood or are not neighborly.

HOWEVER:  GORF is the perfect PLOY-TOY to do my part in saving the Planet.

AN OCCURRENCE THAT SHATTERED MY REALITY.

DateLine:  Sunday, June 8, 2008
Circa 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The South Loop area of Chicago is known as Printer’s Row. I guess those folks never learned to ‘write’ cursive so they band here, as printers.  However, the 1st Weekend of June is earmarked as
PRINTER’s ROW BOOK FAIR, sponsored by the Literary Giants of the Chicago Tribune.

The day was sticky and humid.  The temperatures climbed well into the upper 80s.  The week previously, tornados criss-crossed the Midwest.  It rained sporadically both days…

However, on Sunday around 12:30 a downpour came out of nowhere with the winds first blowing from the southwest into this neighborhood just south of Chicago’s Loop; then rapidly winds from the north collided with the SWerlies.  It was something out of twilight zone.

I sought cover, putting GORF back into his travel bag in a loft building as about 5 of us looked out of the window as books and chairs flew all over. It wasn’t a tornadic funnel that spun up the block; then down the block. It was the winds of a twister coming in on the air-stream high above the skyscrapers.

Chicago is know for its Crime & Cold.  Crime happens for a vareity of reasons.  Cold is because we’re located ON THE LAKE FRONT.  However, for the 34 years I’ve resided in ‘The Windy City’ I never experienced such a climactic event.

Yes, the Climate is changing and it’s all mankind’s fault.  He/she/they are responsible for the Death of Planet Earth.  Before cars and all the earth-sucking devices were developed (prior to 1904 when Autos were invented), much of the Planet was intact.

The Book, 50 Things To Do to Save the Planet was published in 1989.  It’s almost 20 years old; yet it lists all the things we’re still trying to accomplish today.  Granted we are greener than we were and GREEN is the New Black, it’s very scary to see the Wrath of Nature happening in greater torrents on a daily basis now.

Perhaps the ones we should really emulate are the Amish and those Tribes whose life-styles are simpler and greener.

As Smokey, The Bear said:  “Only you can prevent Forest Fires.” Only you can save The Planet.  By doing something GREEN every Hour, you can rest better at night; knowing that perhaps the Sun will rise on the next day. No one can say if the Planet will be ‘saved’ and if extinctions will ‘partially stop’ but by NOT doing something we are definitely sealing our Fate.

GORF Werks Central (R) is the Production Company of all of my GREEN EVENTS, Books, Talks, etc. I perform for THE GREEN MOVEMENT.

Feel free to comment on my blog called KOOPERSMITHin above or via email at:

With Articles like ‘How to be a Climate Hero’ we can all be transformed to ACT into the ‘New Reality’ that even Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone couldn’t conceive.

Posted:
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 2:53 PM CST

When I dress as Polar Bear and stand on the corner I have noticed women in SUV’s are very supportive as well as young men age 18 to 20;;THEY CRACK UP LAUGHING and waving..The frog(gorf) story is inspiring..Thanks..we could all go out and do something publically that is positive and kindly..Jean