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       You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: March 15, 2022, 2:06 pm
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       information and timeless articles that you are encouraged to
       pass on, with or without attribution.
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       I have changed the title and the front page background graphic
       for two reasons:
       1. My purpose, nearly a decade ago, of convincing most reality
       based people everywhere that human civilization, in order to
       stop and reverse (i.e getting back to 350 PPM of atmospheric
       Carbon Dioxide is sine qua non) the multiple extinctions causing
       biosphere degradation (i.e. the Sixth Mass Extinction Event now
       upon us), must VERY rapidly transition away from Hydrocarbon
       Energy Sources to Renewable Energy Sources, has been largely
       achieved. I have been one small voice among many that have made
       it clear  that clean energy must be made available to everyone,
       not just the wealthy, if we are to survive Catastrophic Climate
       Change.
       2. Celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey asked,
       "Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human
       civilization) is going on now"?
       My answer: YES.
       It's the SOCIAL DARWINISM, stupid!
       No matter how much progress we make in cleaning up the
       biosphere, as long as the egocentric, morally bankrupt, empathy
       deficit disordered, Social Darwinist Ideology continues to be
       embraced by TPTB, we do not have a snowball's chance in Hell of
       surviving our Existential Crisis.
       Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
       'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
       'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
       species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
       irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
       are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
       from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
       species.
       The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
       the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
       their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
       “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
       Social Darwinism is actually based, not on "survival of the
       fittest", but on fear of tomorrow, a morally bankrupt excuse for
       rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish greed
       dominated hoarding modus vivendi.
       [center]
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       > Every prudent man acts with knowledge, But a fool lays open
       his folly. --  Proverbs 13:16
       --- End Quote ---
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       > "One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others.
       But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has
       already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two
       things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of
       Survival in Auschwitz
       --- End Quote ---
       Social Darwinism is the world view that spawned the profit over
       people and planet neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal intellectuals
       like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman
       were all Social Darwinists long before they renamed
       laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly discredited
       by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
       "Neoliberalism".
       
       The celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey
       explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following
       principle:
       "There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of
       money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with
       one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be
       privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they
       shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct
       or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources
       and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume
       absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and
       creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of
       humanity shall be deemed disposable."
       "In human society, the amount of inequity is directly
       proportional to the amount of iniquity." -- A. G. Gelbert
       Sober Thinking requires that we all recognize the fact that a
       society that is founded on altruism, not the "invisible hand" of
       greed, is not optional if we wish to avoid exctinction.
       Capitalism's "invisible hand" modus operandi is rooted in the
       ideology of Social Darwinism.
       --- Quote ---
       > “Capitalism is the astounding belief, that the most wickedest
       of men, will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
       good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes
       --- End Quote ---
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       The main purpose of the Sober Thinking Forum is to convince you,
       regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them, to soberly
       think about these two quotes, embrace altruism, reject greed,
       and convince as many people as you can that altruism is not
       optional for human society:
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       > "Look at our world, our country, our interactions with each
       other……… this is not the mark of a healthy society, and if these
       are the self-appointed leaders of this flaming meteor…..it’s
       time to move on to new ideas and new people. Let’s relegate
       these fools to history. They perpetuate a narrative that it is
       right to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner
       towards all. We simply can’t survive it any longer. Things will
       change because they have to." -- Kathleen Wallace
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       "Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; Only
       a Massive Increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
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       Re: You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: March 15, 2022, 2:10 pm
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       January 18, 2020
       [center]
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       />Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling
       On Major Law Firm To #DropExxon[/center]
       By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org. Over 100 students from
       Harvard Law School staged a public protest against a recruitment
       dinner hosted by law firm Paul Weiss on Wednesday night, calling
       for the company to cut ties with fossil fuel giant Exxon. In a
       statement, the demonstrators said they were taking action
       because of the severity of the climate crisis. "This is a
       do-or-die moment in human history," said student Aaron
       Regunberg, one of the action's leaders, in a statement. "We have
       just a few years left to rein in corporate polluters and address
       the climate crisis." -more-
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       />Nearly All Americans Want To Get Off Fossil Fuels[/center]
       By Basav Sen, Otherwords. Late last year, The Washington Post
       reported a remarkable poll finding: Nearly half of American
       adults — 46 percent — believe the U.S. needs to “drastically
       reduce” fossil fuel use in the near future to address the
       climate crisis. Another 41 percent favor a more gradual
       reduction. In short, almost 90 percent of us support
       transitioning off fossil fuels — including over half of
       Republicans, whose elected officials overwhelmingly support the
       industry. -more-
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       Re: You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: March 15, 2022, 2:12 pm
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       [center]Europe’s Biomass Blunder Shows Why Trusting
       &#128024;&#129430; GOP’s Trillion Trees Climate &#128521; Plan
       Would Be A Bad Idea[/center]
       The American Conservation Coalition’s campaign to greenwash
       Republicans exists to generate ‘man bites dog’ type stories,
       like hits in the Washington Post and Fox News on Monday, about
       how maybe the GOP isn’t so bad on climate change, since they
       spout catchphrases like “innovation” and claim to support
       climate policies (that actually reward polluters), like the
       Trillion Trees proposal.
       While on the surface the GOP’s trillion trees sound like they
       might be a great win for the environment and climate, we already
       know what the reality of this sort of approach would mean: more
       pollution. We know this is the case because it’s already
       happening, thanks to a Sequoia-sized loophole in a European
       Union policy similarly aimed at reducing emissions.
       A recent CNN feature on Enviva’s North Carolina wood pellet
       production facility (and a major feature by Danielle Purifoy,
       writing for Scalawag Magazine, Southerly, and Environmental
       Health News, last fall) make it clear that subsidizing the
       timber industry is no climate solution.
       It started in 2009, when the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive
       “classified biomass as a renewable energy source — on par with
       wind and solar power.” Instead of burning coal, they could burn
       biomass, and supposedly reduce emissions by making use of waste
       wood that would otherwise go unused. Unfortunately, though, the
       policy doesn't require that it has to be waste wood, so now
       companies are felling forests and sowing plantations across the
       American Southeast to satisfy European energy demands.
       (Seriously, the paralells to the slave trade are stark.) As a
       result, those communities are facing dangerous levels of PM2.5
       and other air pollutants, leading to a litany of health
       complaints.
       CNN spoke with people like Andrea Macklin about symptoms and
       impacts from the biomass industry, finding issues ranging from a
       loss of sleep due to the 24/7 noise from the plant, to a
       majority of residents experiencing high blood pressure, with
       Macklin’s heart condition forcing the 44-year-old out of work
       and his wife and son’s asthma being exacerbated by the pollution
       from Enviva’s plant. “Since the plant started operating,” CNN
       reported, “his wife and son can’t spend more than five minutes
       outside without coughing.”
       Adding insult to literal injury? It’s not even actually reducing
       the levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The only
       place where levels are dropping are in the record-keeping of the
       European companies, because the biomass’s carbon emissions are
       recorded based on where the trees were cut, not where the
       biomass was actually burned. That classification was made to
       avoid double-counting when doing scientific calculations and was
       not intended to be the basis for public policy where all
       emissions end up in our one shared atmosphere no matter where
       they’re burned. The climate doesn’t care if the wood pellets
       processed in Northampton County, North Carolina are burned in
       Northampton, England. The carbon pollution is going back into
       the same atmosphere.
       While &#129429;&#128520; &#128024; deniers sometimes
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       />rail against U.S. climate action by pointing out that it will
       just push industry out to countries with looser environmental
       standards, increasing the total amount of pollution on the
       planet, in this case, the U.S. is that polluter-permitting
       country whose own citizens are suffering for the illusory
       benefit of foreign carbon accounting balance sheets.
       As usual, the specific people left to suffer with the downsides
       of industry are those who already face a disproportionate burden
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       />CNN analyzed records on pollution and demographics, because
       not
       only is Northampton, home to the Macklins and Enviva’s plant
       (along with three additional major air pollution sources), is
       predominately Black, but eight of Enviva’s nine plants are sited
       “in communities that have higher percentage of Black residents
       than their states as a whole.” All nine “are in census tracts
       that have lower median household incomes than their states.”
       Enviva says it takes environmental justice concerns “very
       seriously”
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       />and that they “work closely” with locals “to ensure our
       operations bring both positive economic and environmental
       impact,” before writing off the complaints as “generic” and
       coming from “the same activists we’ve heard from before.”
       Which is not to say that trees aren’t part of the answer. But
       it’s not just trees, it’s forests. The entire &#127794;&#127795;
       forest ecosystem needs to be functional for carbon to be stored
       long term. As Dogwood Alliance co-founder Danna Smith explained
       to CNN,”the forestry industry and the wood pellet industry says
       that trees are renewable, but we aren’t renewing
       thousand-year-old ecosystems. They’re renewing forests for
       commercial
       &#128181;
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       />production. So you’ll see trees on the landscape that are
       maybe,
       you know, 30 years old. That’s not an ecosystem — that’s a fiber
       farm.”
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       Still, some conservatives will insist subsidizing the timber
       industry and further polluting historically excluded communities
       is an acceptable price to pay to make it look like the GOP is
       acting on climate. They'll also claim those polluting industries
       will bring wealth and prosperity to those who live nearby.
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       As Smith points out, however, “if the wood products industry and
       biomass were a way of growing strong rural economies in the
       southeastern region, these rural communities should be some of
       the wealthiest on the planet. We are in the world’s largest wood
       producing region. But you don’t see any evidence in these rural
       communities of thriving rural economies. The opposite is
       actually true.”
       Subsidizing the timber industry in the name of climate action
       doesn’t help the climate and offers little-to-no real economic
       benefits to the local communities it floods with air pollution.
       Anyone buying into the GOP’s trillion trees greenwashing wood do
       well to reconsider.
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       You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: February 10, 2023, 5:40 pm
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       FEB 9 2023 [glow=green,2,300]BILL MCKIBBEN[/glow]
       SNIPPET:
       In other news from the world of climate and energy:
       +More on that must-read interview by David Wallace-Wells with
       [glow=green,2,300]Greta Thunberg[/glow]. She has always been
       sagacious, but in ever-deeper ways. Here’s my favorite lines:
       I still think that we have to hope for the best in people. And
       if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from being an activist
       these last five years now, it’s that [glow=teal,2,300]many, many
       people want to do good[/glow]. Most people want to do
       [glow=green,2,300]good[/glow]. But in “[glow=red,2,300]our
       society[/glow]” or whatever — Our
       [shadow=red,left]Society™[/shadow] — people don’t know how to do
       that. We don’t know how to do good because we are raised with a
       sense of needing to make a career, needing to achieve this and
       that. And under those circumstances, of course, people are going
       to fight for
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       />themselves, they’re not going to strive for the common good,
       especially not for people living on the other side of the world,
       unfortunately.
       Read more:
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       400+ Actions &#128330;&#65039; to End Fossil Fuels Planned
       Around the World
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       Date: September 11, 2023, 12:05 pm
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       September 11, 2023 by [glow=green,2,300]Valentina Stackl[/glow]
       (Press release also available Spanish and French)
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       [center][glow=teal,2,300]400+ Actions to End[/glow]
       [glow=maroon,2,300]Fossil Fuels[/glow] Planned Around the
       World[/center]
       [glow=teal,2,300]Millions[/glow] are expected to take to the
       streets to
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       />[glow=teal,2,300]demand[/glow]
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       />a rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels.
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       />11 September 2023: With less than one week to go, the Global
       Fight to End Fossil Fuels has registered over 400 actions,
       marches, rallies, and events around the world. These
       mobilisations against fossil fuels are coordinated by more than
       780 endorsing organizations, and are expected to draw millions
       of participants between 15-17 September.
       The actions are part of a mass global escalation demanding a
       rapid end to fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner ahead
       of the UN Climate Ambition Summit on September 20 in New York.
       UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on world
       leaders to make ambitious commitments to phase out fossil fuels.
       This historic global mobilisation renews and reinforces the
       coordinated efforts focused on ending the era of fossil fuels.
       The scale of this mobilisation and the urgency of the moment
       underscore the devastating impacts of recent record-breaking
       heat, deadly floods, and increased extreme weather events. The
       mobilisations are expected to draw millions of people and put a
       spotlight on world leaders who continue to expand oil, gas, and
       coal. The campaign calls for renewed commitments for a rapid,
       just, and equitable phase out from fossil fuels and a move
       towards sustainable renewables. UN Secretary-General António
       Guterres and millions of people around the globe are putting
       pressure on world leaders to phase out fossil fuels and oppose
       the fossil fuel industry, which profits from the oppression of
       millions.
       The science is clear: the world needs a rapid and just
       transition to an efficient, fair, and universal energy system
       based on clean energy sources, and produced with respect for
       nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples and local
       communities. The latest data backs up the International Energy
       Agency finding that no new fossil fuel extraction can be
       developed under a 1.5°C limit, and shows that over half of
       existing fields and mines be shut down early while protecting
       workers and communities. The responsibility lies with the
       leaders of rich nations with a historical legacy of pollution to
       deliver a fast and fair phase out of fossil fuels and fund it
       globally.
       [glow=greend,2,300]David Tong, Global Industry Campaign Manager
       at Oil Change International:[/glow]
       “It’s unthinkable to approve any new oil, gas, or coal
       extraction. The science shows that 60% of developed, operating
       fossil fuel reserves must stay underground to limit global
       warming to 1.5°C. The reality is that oil and gas companies must
       stop new exploration and extraction projects immediately, manage
       the decline of existing reserves to meet shrinking demand, and
       support workers to transition to other sectors. No major oil and
       gas company is pledging to do the bare minimum to prevent
       climate chaos. Our Big Oil Reality Check analysis finds that the
       climate pledges of BP, Chevron, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil,
       Repsol, Shell, and TotalEnergies are grossly insufficient
       compared to what is needed to make the world a place where we
       all breathe clean air, drink pristine water, trust that our
       homes are safe from unnatural disasters, and live a good life.”
       [glow=green,2,300]
       Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network,
       said:[/glow]
       "July 2023 was the hottest month in recorded climate history.
       The unparalleled, deadly climate disasters sweeping the world
       seem to leave polluters unfazed. Historical emitters like
       Norway, the UK and the USA are announcing new fossil fuel
       projects even as floods, fires and heatwaves take over our
       lives. We take inspiration from recent victories in the Yasuni
       region with the referendum to stop oil drilling. When we the
       people use our collective power we can win. Let our resistance
       against fossil fuels in September send a loud message to the
       fossil fuel industry and their supporters that their time is
       up."
       [glow=green,2,300]Catherine Abreu Founder & Executive Director
       Destination Zero[/glow], Co-chair, Global Gas and Oil Network
       (GGON) International Policy working group, said:
       “Deny, delay, deceive: the desperate tactics used by desperate
       men to cover up the truth of climate change, crush government
       action, and convince us to lay the blame for the devastation
       we're facing somewhere other than where it belongs - squarely at
       the feet of the fossil fuel industry. The march to end fossil
       fuels, alongside the UN Secretary General's powerful
       Acceleration Agenda, is ringing an alarm that will wake the
       world. International consensus that we need a just and equitable
       phase-out of all fossil fuels is clearer than ever. It's time
       our climate treaties name the cause of the crisis - COP28 can
       and must deliver an agreement to rapidly shift to efficient,
       safe, renewable energy.”
       [glow=teal,2,300]Lidy Nacpil[/glow], Asian Peoples’ Movement on
       Debt and Development, member organisation of Global Campaign to
       Demand Climate Justice, said:
       "The world must pursue a rapid, equitable and just phase out of
       fossil fuels and directly transition to renewable energy. No
       false solutions, no loopholes, no detours through so called
       bridge fuels. The world can not afford any delays to reaching
       real zero emissions by 2050. An equitable and just phase out
       requires the full delivery of climate finance obligations of
       wealthy countries to the Global South. They must pay reparations
       for their responsibility for the climate crisis. The biggest
       emitters have been failing to meet their fair shares of climate
       actions, including their climate finance obligations. Fossil
       fuel corporations are expanding rather than phasing out.
       Governments and corporations are committing the gravest
       injustices to people all over the world, especially the Global
       South."
       Additional quotes from global and national/local leaders
       Highlighted events:
       Asia:
       Pakistan: More than three thousand people are expected to join
       the Pakistan Climate March organized with the Asian People's
       Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and Hari Jedojehad
       Committee (Peasant’s Struggle Committee). The march will be held
       in the southern province of Sindh and seeks to highlight the
       losses and damages from last year’s catastrophic flooding. A
       quarter of Sindh’s population of about 50 million were affected
       by the floods and parts of Sindh remain under water to this day.
       Farooq Tariq, Secretary General of Kissan Rabita Committee
       (PKRC), said:
       “We demand a phaseout of fossil fuels now. The fossil fuel
       industry and its supporters bear responsibility for the climate
       crisis and perpetuate a predatory and destructive economic
       system that harms both people and the planet. We call upon
       developed countries, the big emitters, to fulfill the $10
       billion they promised to Pakistan immediately and to pay
       reparations for the loss and damage,” said Tariq.
       APMDD is also organizing a climate march in the Philippines with
       Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ), multisectoral
       coalition Sanlakas, Oriang Women’s Movement, union of
       agricultural workers Aniban ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (AMA)
       and militant labor unions federation Bukluran ng Manggagawang
       Pilipino (BMP). More than three thousand are expected to join
       the march, which will be held in Manila, near the Malacañang
       Palace, the official residence and principal workplace of the
       president of the Philippines.
       Africa:
       Abuja, Nigeria: As a part of the ongoing Fossil Free Nigeria and
       a Fossil Free World Campaign in Nigeria, Fridays for Future
       Nigeria and Climate Live Nigeria will march in the Federal
       Capital territory of Nigeria (Abuja), the seat of the Federal
       Government of Nigeria. Around 100, 000 participants are
       expected. For more information, visit the Fridays For Future
       Nigeria Instagram.
       [glow=blue,2,300]Kingsley Odogwu[/glow], National Coordinator &
       Country Rep. Fridays For Future Nigeria & Climate Live Nigeria,
       said:
       “What we need now is a major structural shift in our energy
       system. In the past this would have included the shifts from
       biomass to coal and then to oil. Today’s transition is primarily
       driven by the need to manage climate change and decarbonise our
       fossil-based economies with sustainable sources of energy, such
       as wind and solar. Every sector that generates, transports, or
       consumes energy will be impacted.
       “To meet the 1.5C global warming target set after the Paris
       Agreement and avoid the worst climate impacts, global greenhouse
       gas (GHG) emissions will first need to drop by half by 2030,
       then reach net-zero around mid-century. Therefore, a transition
       needs to happen fast and A Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty
       is the beginning of that transition that every Country should
       embrace now.”
       Europe:
       Germany:Around 200 climate strikes, marches, and rallies have
       been registered in Germany alone with civil society, ForFuture
       groups, NGOs, religious groups, and the public service labor
       unions. Additional actions are planned against a new LNG
       terminal in Rügen (Baltic Sea) by Ende Gelände, Sept 22-24, and
       GreenFaith Germany. Numerous climate action will also take place
       on September 16 in Bonn, host city of the UN Climate
       Secretariat, including at the SDG festival, BeFuture Festival
       (for constructive journalism),  and through public climate
       artivism. Earlier this month, Scientists4Future issued a
       statement, signed by more than 400 scientists, calling on German
       politicians to set partisanship aside to address the climate
       crisis.
       [glow=green,2,300]Sandra Prüfer[/glow] from Parents For Future
       Germany, said:
       “We, as parents, cannot remain silent as the fossil fuel
       industry robs our children of a livable future. Yet the fossil
       fuel juggernaut continues on like a runaway train with our
       children’s futures on the track. This is why we joined the
       growing call on governments to negotiate and implement a Fossil
       Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. A clear, global plan to phase out
       fossil fuels is the first part of a better story for all
       children.”
       Latin America:
       Yasuní National Park, Ecuador: Declared a “biosphere reserve” by
       UNESCO, Yasuní National Park is one of the most biodiverse
       places on earth. In a popular consultation in  August,
       Ecuadorians decided to stop oil drilling within Yasuní National
       Park. Yasunidos, the collective which pushed for the referendum
       a decade, is remaining vigilant for the result to be enforced.
       On September 15th, groups are organizing an event and press
       conference to launch a monitoring commission to enforce
       compliance of the decision.
       Yvonne Yanez, co-founder of Acción Ecológica, said:
       “On August 20, Ecuadorians voted to keep oil in the ground in
       Ecuadorian Amazonia. This is a declaration from the people that
       we want to be a post oil economy. This is a great victory, but
       we haven't won yet, because oil companies and Government don't
       want to adhere to the vote. What the Yasuni movement gives us is
       an opportunity. An opportunity to really consider what
       ecojustice, and a just transition really looks like, and to
       demand for that future. We need to be alert, be inspired but be
       active and not let this victory be stripped away. Be
       #FastFairForever and Furious. Ending the extraction of fossil
       fuels is essential. Ecuador's popular decision is an example to
       the world that with will it is possible to move towards oil-free
       communities.”
       North America:
       New York, New York: The March to End Fossil Fuels mobilization
       will be on September 17 in New York City. Groups including the
       NAACP, Sierra Club, and Sunrise Movement have signed on to
       support the march and its demands for President Biden to take
       bold action on fossil fuels in the wake of a deadly,
       record-breaking summer of extreme heat and climate disasters. In
       addition to the 500 groups supporting the march, nationally
       recognized leaders including Sen. Ed Markey, Reps. Rashida Tlaib
       and Jamaal Bowman, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson, Jane
       Fonda, Naomi Klein, Mark Ruffalo, and Bill McKibben are backing
       the march. More than 10,000 people from across the country are
       expected to attend.
       [glow=green,2,300]Jean Su, Energy Justice Director at the Center
       for Biological Diversity[/glow], Board Chair of Climate Action
       Network International, and co-coordinator of the NYC March to
       End Fossil Fuels, said:
       “The hottest summer on record is galvanizing people across the
       globe like never before to cry out for lifesaving climate
       action. Biden and world leaders need to answer those cries by
       ending the era of fossil fuels. As leader of the world’s largest
       oil and gas producer and the greatest historic climate polluter,
       Biden has power like no one else to lead the world off the
       fossil fuels poisoning our planet and communities. It’s time he
       starts using them to become the climate leader we need.”
       An interactive map of all events is available here
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       Notes:
       1. [glow=teal,2,300]Additional quotes from global and
       national/local leaders[/glow]
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       2. For a full list of endorsers click here (780+)
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       &#1421; 1. Endorsing groups include:International groups:
       350.org, Climate Action Network,
       Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Friends of the
       Earth. Greenpeace, Oil
       Change International, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice,
       XR, and many
       more!
       &#1421; 2. National and local groups across the globe,
       including: Cayman Eco (Cayman Island), ClimateFast (Canada),
       Farmers Action Committee Shikarpur Sindh Pakistan (Pakistan),
       For a Better Bayou (US), Fundación Esfera Azul Colombia
       (Colombia), Movimiento Ciudadano frente al Cambio Climatico
       (Peru), Rinascimento Green (Italy), Tanzania Wote Equality
       Alliance - TAWEA (Tanzania), Unis Pour Le Climat et l,
       Biodiversité (France), Voice of The Vulnerable (Nigeria), and
       many more!
       3. An interactive map of all events is available here
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       &#1421; 1. Additional highlights include: A meditation action
       protesting at Barclays investment in fossil fuels organized by
       Extinction Rebellion Budhists in London, UK; Art4climate: A
       raising awareness workshop in organized by GreenSociety, an
       Environmental Arts Festival in Cali, Colombia; End fossil
       finance student march in Bujumburi, Burundi; a candlelight vigil
       in British Columbia, Canada and Canada is Burning! Action
       organized by a senior climate group along students and labor
       leaders in Ottawa, Canada; Student speakout against fossil
       fuels, in Melbourne, Australia; Students against Eacop will
       deliver a petition to the Parliament of Uganda against
       investment into the East African crude Oil pipeline and all
       fossil fuel projects in the country in Kampala, Uganda, and many
       more.
       4. The coalition recently hosted a webinar, Power Up to
       #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever, with the following speakers.
       Webinar recording
       .
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       AGelbert COMMENT:
       May God Bless all these people of good will who valiantly
       advocate for responsible human stewardship of our biosphere. We
       need fossil fuels like a dog needs ticks.
       [b]Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
       righteousness: for they shall be filled. ~ Matthew 5:6[/b]
       June 10, 1963 John F. Kennedy:
       “Finally, my fellow Americans, let us examine our attitude
       toward peace and freedom here at home. The quality and spirit of
       our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad. We
       must show it in the dedication of our own lives — as many of you
       who are graduating today will have a unique opportunity to do,
       by serving without pay in the Peace Corps abroad or in the
       proposed National Service Corps here at home.
       But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to
       the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too
       many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because the
       freedom is incomplete.
       It is the responsibility of the executive branch at all levels
       of government — local, State, and National — to provide and
       protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within
       their authority. It is the responsibility of the legislative
       branch at all levels, wherever that authority is not now
       adequate, to make it adequate. And it is the responsibility of
       all citizens in all sections of this country to respect the
       rights of all others and to respect the law of the land.
       All this is not unrelated to world peace. “When one’s ways
       please the Lord,” the Scriptures tell us, “they maketh even
       their enemies to be at peace with them.” And is not
       [glow=green,2,300]peace[/glow], in the last analysis, basically
       a matter of human rights — the right to live out our lives
       without fear of devastation — [glow=teal,2,300]the right to
       breathe air as nature provided it — the right of future
       generations to a healthy existence[/glow]?
       While we proceed to safeguard our national interests, let us
       also safeguard human interests. And the elimination of war and
       arms is clearly in the interest of both.”
       #Post#: 1341--------------------------------------------------
       You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 29, 2023, 2:25 pm
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       [center]Is [glow=red,2,300]Capitalism[/glow] Really
       [glow=teal,2,300]Human Nature[/glow]? [/center]
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       />Well, there is no question that alligators, T-rexes and
       turtles
       (and all other forms of non-human critters in our biosphere) are
       not known for their embrace of an ideology that celebrates
       rampant abusive exploitation of fellow members of their species
       while vigorously destroying all their "seed corn" (otherwise
       known as prey species and plant life autotroph habitats). So,
       Capitalism is a thing some humans came up with.
       The fact that some morally bankrupt bastards among us came up
       with this socially destructive ideology DOES mean that PART of
       Human Nature is responsible for it. However, it is a BASIC FLAW
       in logic, commonly known as a False Equivalence, perpetrated Ad
       Infinitum Ad Nauseum by those very same morally bankrupt
       bastards among us, to claim that this PART of Human Nature is
       "ALL" that motivates our actions.
       I have heard that "form of logic" since I was knee high to a
       grasshopper. Our culture is thoroughly drenched with trite and
       pithy sayings about "people are just people" and so on. T-Rexes
       just "do what they do", right?
       WRONG!!! First of all, as I explained above, predators in nature
       are not STUPID. Capitalists ARE STUPID because their ideology is
       contrary to absolutely all species preserving and protecting
       behavior in NATURE.
       This is a BIG and rather complex subject. Capitalists are quick
       to compare Human behavior with bacteria, which, when placed in a
       petri dish with some yummy agar nutrient, will eat it ALL until
       the "ring circling" futile attempt to keep most of the bacteria
       chomping down on the agar from eating it all, while the
       "fittest", that ring circled the agar food supply, feast (for a
       short while until even the "fittest" die from starvation).
       Bacterial modus operandi and modus vivendi has NOTHING to do
       with Human Nature.
       WHY? Simply because the biosphere is not a petri dish and
       bacteria, ubiquitous in nature, MUST be voracious, non-thinking
       eaters in order to recycle the massive amounts of detritus
       generated naturally.
       YEAH, bacteria just do what they do,  &#128226; FOR THE BENEFIT
       OF ALL HIGHER LIFE FORMS! Of course Capitalists, Social
       Darwinists to the core, don't want to hear about that. A person
       with critical thinking skills might rationally suspect that
       bacteria are part of a DESIGN to maintain a viable biosphere.
       So, Capitalists make a lot of noise about what they want people
       to believe "justifies" 'greed is good', 'might equals right' and
       so on, but are QUIET AS DEATH about ubiquitous life preserving
       Biosphere Math.
       For those who are now "turned off" by what appears to be another
       pitch by the resident Christian to "slander" Darwin's theory,
       don't worry, I will not bore you with arguments for ID. What I
       will do is explain why what animals do in their predatory
       behavior is 100% CONTRARY to heinous Capitalist Ideology.
       Mammals AND reptiles, and any other non-human life form out
       there, cannot be judged on moral grounds. A mother Grizzly Bear
       that killed and ate her cubs in Alaska some years ago did not do
       it for any malicious or evil reason. That Bear, like all bears
       that are extremely hungry (It is an anthropomorphic mistake to
       confuse that with the REASONED thought process of a human that
       resorts to cannibalism when faced with starvation), did NOT USE
       REASON to make that "decision".
       Crocodiles and alligators are the same. Several decades ago, in
       Florida, a place called the Serpentarium had some alligators in
       a pit about 14 feet below the level of the spectators. A man's
       four year old boy fell in the pit and an alligator promptly
       chomped down on him. The father immediately jumped in the pit
       and pounded on the head of the alligator while desperately
       trying to open its jaws as the alligator moved into some water
       to drown the child, as alligators (and crocodiles) do to stop
       their prey from struggling loose by drowning them. The jaw
       muscles of those critters are designed so they are easy to
       close, but VERY difficult to open. The alligator was shot to
       death but the child had already died. The father was unscathed
       physically but scarred mentally for the rest of his life.
       Animals that lose their young to a predator NEVER dwell on the
       loss because they never REASON. Some say animals just move on.
       That is NOT TRUE. Humans are the ones who, having REASONED out
       the loss, DECIDE to move on as best they can.
       There is no Mens rea in the behavior of animals, no matter how
       ruthless the tooth and claw behavior they exhibit. Humans MUST
       be judged on moral grounds or there is absolutely no basis for
       judging socially "destructive" behavior. The Wall Street Jargon
       that pretends to be akin to predatory animal behavior (e. g.
       "Making a Killing") has always been a Social Darwinist CON.
       Human EVIL has NOTHING in common with predatory animal behavior.
       As Americans are subject to the brutal impacts of inevitable
       climate change, we face a clear choice: strong government
       intervention to save our lives, or a “survival of the fittest”
       dystopia that &#129430; Big Oil Supporting &#128127; Wall Street
       promises.
       For those who wonder WHY so many, otherwise intelligent people
       that SHOULD know better, continue to cling to their profit over
       people and planet "business model", this quote will explain the
       CORE ideology they embraced SEVERAL DECADES AGO that destroyed
       their ability to do Viable Biosphere Math:
       September 3,, 2023
       "The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity
       and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant
       for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel
       remorse or guilt — are celebrated. The virtues of empathy,
       compassion and self-sacrifice, are belittled, neglected and
       crushed. The professions that sustain community, such as
       teaching, manual labor, the arts, journalism and nursing, are
       underpaid and overworked. The professions that exploit, such as
       those in high finance, Big Pharma, Big Oil and information
       technology, are lavished with prestige, money and power." --
       Chris Hedges
       There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet
       is not washed from their filthiness.
       There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their
       eyelids are lifted up.
       There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw
       teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the
       needy from among men. — Proverbs 30:12-14
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       [center]Natural Selection Part 3: A Seductive Swindle
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       #Post#: 1516--------------------------------------------------
       You will have to pick a side. There is no longer Room for
       Procrastination
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: December 6, 2023, 12:08 pm
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       The Class Struggle
       Friday, December 1, 2023
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       [center]‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong
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       AGelbert COMMENT: My take on this erudite piece is welcoming the
       fact that, though rather briefly, it correctly sheds light (SEE:
       any port in the storm) on the root cause of the present social
       decay and destruction:
       "Explicit and outspoken prejudices of this kind are no longer
       acceptable in many circles, yet social Darwinism lurks
       everywhere and remains the ugly cornerstone of most mainstream
       political thought. And it continues to underwrite the racisms
       and neocolonialism of our present era."
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       I hasten to add that Social Darwinism continues to underwrite a
       lot more than racisms and neocoloniaism. The Hydrocarbon Fuels
       Based Corporations are in-our-faces examples of Social Darwinist
       "Apex Predators" in action. Their "circles" are QUITE ACCEPTING
       (i.e. 'You ain't gonna work here if ya ain't FULLY into dis.')
       of the Social Darwinist modus operandi:
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       December 2, 2023
       [center][glow=maroon,2,300]Greenwashers 'R' US[/glow] &#129430;
       Hydrocarbon &#128520; Hellspawn [glow=red,2,300]Doing[/glow]
       What they [glow=red,2,300]DO[/glow] at COP28
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       Despite the above blatant example of how
       [glow=maroon,2,300]PERVASIVE Social Darwinist Ideology[/glow] is
       at present, I have become convinced that, because this morally
       bankrupt ideology is so entrenched in the default conscious and
       subconscious worldview of most humans, any attempt to point at
       Social Darwinism as the ROOT cause of social decay and
       destruction touches the REJECT BUTTON NERVE on most, otherwise
       rational, people of good will. &#129402;
       No, I am not kidding. All of us, whether highly educated or not,
       are not now, or ever, completely free from the prejudices
       implanted in us by our &#128586;&#128585;&#128584; edumacation
       system. No matter how much we pride ourselves in critical
       thinking skills, we all have those sacred cows that we defend to
       the hilt. To many here, my "Sacred Cow" is Monotheism in
       general, and Christianity in particular. Most here might think,
       but are (mostly) too polite to say openly, "Matthew 7:12 is all
       well and good, but only when you leave your god sacred cow out
       of it, can we can support it.".
       Well, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Too
       many people, including most religious AND non-religious
       Americans, cannot bring themselves to accept that the cancer of
       Social Darwinism is what is eating our civilization alive,
       always opting to single out some other, of several 'pick your
       poison ones' out there, socially destructive isms. I contend
       that the reason all those isms, which I firmly believe are
       actually downstream byproducts of Social Darwinism, are
       consistently and studiously opted for instead of fingering
       Social Darwinist Ideology, is because there is a little voice in
       their head that says 'might really does equal right'.
       That voice, unlike the altruistic impulse we have, though many
       have managed to pretend their dog ate it, is part of our dog eat
       dog baser instincts, and was there thousands of years before
       Darwin wrote his Evolution Theory Book.
       However, Darwin's Theory of Evolution, taught as unquestionable
       scientific truth, from the time people are knee high to
       grasshoppers until, and after, graduate school, implanted a
       megaphone app on that voice in every person's head. Most reading
       this would argue till the cows come home that said Theory is
       certainly NOT, as I "quixotically claim" pseudo-scientific
       speculation.
       No, I'm not going to bore you with DNA information, precise
       energy constants and so on. How life got started is not the
       issue I wish discuss.
       What I am doing here is pointing out that the ENTRENCHED belief
       that human BEHAVIOR is the result of Evolution Theory based
       random undirected processes is what inhibts seeing Social
       Darwinism as the scourge that MUST be ELIMINATED from
       acceptance, at ANY LEVEL of human society, if we are to survive.
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       As long as people can point to this, that, or the other Ism as
       "the problem", Social Darwinism
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       />CONTINUE to motivate "JUSTIFICATION" for the "My Way of the
       Highway" socially destructive modus operandi/vivendi.
       I will give you an example of an ISM that has Social Darwinism
       at its ROOT: It is [glow=maroon,2,300]Zionism[/glow], though
       most people, due to that voice in their head, do not want to go
       there.
       [glow=red,2,300]Capitalism[/glow] and
       [glow=maroon,2,300]Liberalism[/glow] are two other, not so
       obvious, examples.
       [glow=red,2,300]Hitler's National Socialism[/glow] was
       unapologetically Social Darwinist to the core.
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       The [glow=red,2,300]U.S. Duopoly and for profit
       corporations[/glow] in the USA (and most, if not all, of the
       world) are run by and for [glow=red,2,300]Social
       Darwinists[/glow]. What is "[glow=maroon,2,300]Perception
       Management[/glow]" mendacious corporate propaganda if not
       [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow] based
       [glow=maroon,2,300]legerdemain[/glow]?
       Even [glow=red,2,300]Game Theory[/glow], when stripped of the
       "competitive advantages and disadvantages" jargon, is
       [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow] based
       [glow=red,2,300]Kafkaesque survival olympics[/glow] in thought,
       word and deed.
       But back to Zionism, I am posting the following comment thread
       from War Is Not Abstracted by Caitlin Johnstone
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       />in the hope, forlorn as it is, that I can get past that
       Darwinian Homo Sapiens "reality" voice in your head:
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       S.L. Writes S.L.’s Substack
       See... this was the whole problem with Gaza. They didn't take
       enough time to manufacture consent!
       Bibi thought that by using the 9/11 playbook, people would
       globally and immediately side with Israel against Gaza. The
       problem was that the attack simply wasn't flashy enough. On
       9/11, we allowed a major religious building to be hit (the US
       official religion is commerce, after all - and what better
       representation that the two tallest buildings of commerce in the
       US?) - it was photographically spectacular.
       The attack on the settlements was not photographed until it was
       too late. No big rockets bombing a landmark; no people falling
       from buildings; no images of weeping fire-fighters covered in
       ash... really, as far as manufacturing consent goes, the mission
       was an utter failure.
       When will they learn? You either need to keep things hidden
       (Yemen, Africa), pump out a few years of propaganda and false
       flag ops* (Syria, Iran, Afghanistan). It's not enough to just
       arm the 'terrorists' and then use 'terrorism' as an excuse
       anymore. You need to run a years long campaign from all sides
       declaring that your opponents are 'commies' and of being
       'Hitler' (Russia, China) - that's how you manufacture sufficient
       consent!
       You can't just allow a few small townships to be attacked and
       then expect full-bodied global blood-thirst! Bibi and his pals
       just didn't think this through.
       AGelbert > S.L.
       Yes, the Social Darwinists 'R' US playbook has its morally
       bankrupt, but far too effective, perception management "rules".
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       Another reason 9/11 was so "effective" at its impact on the
       propagandized masses is that PNAC, way back in 1998, decided
       that the fascist takeover agenda for the USA needed another
       "Pearl Harbor" in order to be successful. They KNEW 9/11 was
       going to happen, at least 6 months before it happened, because
       of YEARS of careful planning for the sequence of destructive
       events, including that "airliner" that magically shrunk to the
       size of a missle when it hit the Pentagon, the military drone
       versions of airliners to crash into the two tallest WTC towers
       (NOTE: they KNEW that the military drone versions of airliners
       would be unable to bring the WTC towers down - the airliners
       were for propaganda optics), AND obtaining the services of
       Netanyahu's tight lipped Zionist Team of explosive demolition
       experts to rig WTC 1, 2 AND 7 for explosive demolition. By a
       strange coincidence, Netanyahu was in NYC on 9/11, the same day
       the dancing Israelis were filmed joyously filming the burning
       WTC towers....
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       Perhaps Gore would have delayed their MIC Fascist Dream Come
       True for a few years, but I doubt that because the MIC has owned
       the Duopoly for at least half a century, if not more. At any
       rate, as soon as Bush and Cheney took office. The BIG GREEN
       LIGHT for the "New Pearl Harbor" to take place was given.
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       See below, irrefutable evidence that 9/11 was an
       [glow=red,2,300]inside job[/glow]:
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       It's the Social Darwinism, stupid!
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       Les Writes Les’s GeoPolitical Essays - Age…
       On Social Darwinism and its origins ->
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       AGelbert > Les
       Good, but rather long article.
       &#129312; So, let me summarize:
       &#128226; [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinist Ideology[/glow] is
       the pseudo-scientific exercise in the erudite, but mendacious,
       defense of the morally bankrupt modus operandi/vivendi commonly
       known as, '[glow=red,2,300]Might Equals Right[/glow]'.
       Of course this socially destructive worldview is as old as
       humanity, but it was [b][glow=maroon,2,300]Darwin's[/glow]
       "[glow=red,2,300]PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE
       FOR LIFE[/glow]" legerdemain that convinced
       [glow=maroon,2,300]ethics challenged Academia[/glow] into
       accepting it[/b] as, not only the privilege, but the
       "[glow=red,2,300]Evolution Theory based Obligation[/glow]" of
       we-the-apex-predators to do our BEST to &#128520;
       "[glow=red,2,300]rid the world of the lesser[/glow]" races.
       [glow=maroon,2,300]Netanyahu[/glow], a member in good standing
       of the [glow=maroon,2,300]Social Darwinists 'R' US[/glow], knows
       his MORALLY BANKRUPT "Darwinian Duty"....
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