What to DO - a modest proposal
Posted: Fri 17 Jul 2015, 08:34:31
At least a few of us here believe strongly the world is a mess and our BAU is pushing us to disaster, if not extinction.
What to do? If we do nothing then this is all rhetoric and conjecture, meaningless.
Not a great idea, a rumination perhaps, but this crowd funding thing got me thinking.
What if we did a crowd sourced open letter to TPTB to tell them to knock it off. To start showing some leadership on the problems we face.
I don't like all the various organizations that lobby, I don't think they are very effective for the money spent.
But a simple crowd sourced statement, a petition that could be signed and forwarded. Maybe a place on the Internet where we could each go and state our disgust with the situation.
"WE THE PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF HUMANITY CONTINUING ON ITS ORESENT COURSE OF OVER COMSUMPTION AND RESOURCE DEPLETION WHICH IS FEEDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND PUTTING ALL OF EARTHS LIVING ORGANIAIMS AT WORK.
THE ISSUES FACING HUMANITY AND EARTH IN LARGE ARE EXTREAMLY DIFFICLUT. OUR LEADERSHIP HAS COLLECTIVELY IGNORED THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES AND FOCUSED INSTEAD UPON RETAINING THE BUISNESS AS USUAL MODEL WHILE LOOKING BUSY DEALING WITH LESSOR ISSUES. WHILE THE ISSUES ARE HARD YOU HAVE STOOD UP AS OUR LEADERS AND PROMISED TO HANDLE THESE PROBLEMS. YOU HAVE NOT.
THE BELOW SIGNED INDIVIDUALS, AND ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS, WILL HOLD YOU ACCOUTABLE FOR THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME.
DEAL WITH IT."
Just a suggested statement.
Is such a crowd sourced petition possible?
What to do? If we do nothing then this is all rhetoric and conjecture, meaningless.
Not a great idea, a rumination perhaps, but this crowd funding thing got me thinking.
What if we did a crowd sourced open letter to TPTB to tell them to knock it off. To start showing some leadership on the problems we face.
I don't like all the various organizations that lobby, I don't think they are very effective for the money spent.
But a simple crowd sourced statement, a petition that could be signed and forwarded. Maybe a place on the Internet where we could each go and state our disgust with the situation.
"WE THE PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF HUMANITY CONTINUING ON ITS ORESENT COURSE OF OVER COMSUMPTION AND RESOURCE DEPLETION WHICH IS FEEDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND PUTTING ALL OF EARTHS LIVING ORGANIAIMS AT WORK.
THE ISSUES FACING HUMANITY AND EARTH IN LARGE ARE EXTREAMLY DIFFICLUT. OUR LEADERSHIP HAS COLLECTIVELY IGNORED THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES AND FOCUSED INSTEAD UPON RETAINING THE BUISNESS AS USUAL MODEL WHILE LOOKING BUSY DEALING WITH LESSOR ISSUES. WHILE THE ISSUES ARE HARD YOU HAVE STOOD UP AS OUR LEADERS AND PROMISED TO HANDLE THESE PROBLEMS. YOU HAVE NOT.
THE BELOW SIGNED INDIVIDUALS, AND ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS, WILL HOLD YOU ACCOUTABLE FOR THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME.
DEAL WITH IT."
Just a suggested statement.
Is such a crowd sourced petition possible?