Discuss: Altar Call for True Believers
Janisse Ray is calling the mass of self-described environmentalists on the carpet. It is time, she says, to set higher standards for ourselves, judge bad behavior for what it is, and get serious about leading by example. Should enviros be eschewing travel and canceling conferences? Is the path to a greener world a narrow one that demands saying "no" to many of the goods and comforts to which we're accustomed? Or is it better to consume some resources in the service of a larger battle?
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225 Steven Earl Salmony on Sep 19, 2011
226 John T. Ross on Sep 19, 2011
I agree. Today mass communications are owned and operated by the big corporations that ignore whatever works against their interests, for example the recent demonstration against that big oil pipeline. Over a hundred people were arrested yet saw nothing on the TV news about it. If they hadn’t sent me an email I would not have known they exist.
227 Steven Earl Salmony on Sep 19, 2011
On the one hand we have the corporate mass media and their absurdly enriched and overly educated ‘talking heads’ who confuse everyone in the name of being fair and balanced, and on the other hand we have knowledgeable, influential people who choose to remain willfully blind, hysterically deaf and electively mute rather than “speak truth (as best they can see it) to power.” Confusion and silence reign. The family of humanity is being betrayed by everyone who engages in such dishonest and duplicitous denial.
228 Earthfriend on Oct 31, 2011
Well said Steve Earl Salmony…
229 Earthfriend on Oct 31, 2011
While I may have made some modest changes in my personal life and had a modest impact in my professional life, it is clear that I do not do enough have not done enough!. The trend lines are also clear. There are those who will preach technological salvation but I must respectfully disagree. We must all hear the clarion call of enlightenment and true change if we are going to right this ship. That, unfortunately is NOT going to happen. We are not going to change everything… Alas, this wondrous, beautiful world is destined for cataclysm…
230 Steven Earl Salmony on Oct 31, 2011
Dear EarthFriend,
You have a way of putting things so wonderfully well. I agree with all you report.
http://www.countercurrents.org/salmony301011.htm
Sincerely,
Steve
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