I agree. Corporations need a "transformative sentence" -not the death sentence. Chairmen of the Board and all Directors should be able to be fired and replaced, when the company commits serious crimes. Think how different America could be if all those bankers were fired and replaced after 2008. Same thing for BP.
Accountability. Yes. Check out Naomi Klein in the second linked video in post#205. It's a long one, but as she starts to speak her message at 27:27 she gets into the prognostication pretty quick.
The view she reports is that we are locked into a certain amount of warming at this point. There is nothing we can do. We are looking at a changed world no matter what. But the
catastrophic warming that will occur by this century's end can be avoided if we pull back from 'business as usual'. She lays a lot at the door of
extreme capitalism. (The Chicago School, economists like Milton Friedman and the 'thinker' Ayn Rand have a lot to answer for). She calls it a 'war' being waged against life on earth, a war being waged upon the earth systems, a war with the earth itself. It's a war we cannot win. In the end, as the earth does it's massive roll to readjust - to be rid of the 'infection' - humanity winks out.
Here's where my view kicks in, because I do not think the earth 'wants' to lose humanity, or that it's the best scenario for the earth. For that bit the 'spiritual' has to be brought in, the idea of consciousness of a kind, of a depth and breath and scope, that (certain) current thinking cannot allow for. (It may require a new thread or the resurrection of one of my currently idle threads). Why the modern human is disallowed from thinking in that certain vein is nested in the history of thinking, back to the 1500's and 1700's, going back farther still to the Moors and the division between Arithmetic and Geometry, farther still to the split between Plato and Aristotle and the split between Egyptian and Sumerian, and even further as modeled by the archetypal story of Cain and Abel (a fundamentally Sumerian story).
Anyway, I'll be checking out the climate issues over time. I honestly believe it is real, but I just don't know when or how. I don't think anyone knows exactly,
You'll find as you do the reading, that there are some who posit 'exactly how'. In my view it cannot be crisply predicted because of the unknowns: which system will implode that then leads to the next cascade effect? It's hard to predict though it's clear the systems are 'on the verge'. How it will cascade is not
entirely an unknown, but it's hard to predict what will come first and when.
I have one friend who studies the weather. He is a scientist as well as being an esotericist, and I find his insights compelling because of that dual aspect. He does have one precise prognostication: that either in 2015 (or 2016 - I think 2016) there will be a reversal of the California drought. There will be so much rain that people will be sick of it. He says it will be a deluge. What does one do with that? Firstly, knowing California (I live here) I know that landslides will be epidemic under those conditions. (No big tree root systems to hold the soil). It's not a simple matter of looking for high ground, but a certain kind of high ground. High ground can as easily collapse under water-logged conditions as keep one above the water line. The ability of the street sewer systems to handle sustained rains even now is hit-or-miss. Under sustained rain for days, weeks, months - how will the streets look? Cars with low clearance will not survive is the first thought that comes to me. What will the coastline look like - the beaches - as water starts to flow 'both ways' from streets to ocean. How will the sewage systems stand up and the waste treatment plants stand up to deluge-like rain sustained over time? In LA we are prepared for earthquakes - has anyone thought of being prepared for excessive rain? Doubt it. The city planners are preparing for sustained drought.
It will be the unexpected that will do us in. While my friend has his reasons for thinking 2016 will be a year of out-of-control rain for California, he is not shouting his views from the roof-tops for obvious reasons (weather forecasting is an uncertain science at best). The system has too many unknowns, though he is certain enough of his analysis at this point to be talking openly about it now.
that's why I'm so interested in the countdown check list. People need a simple check list that can match-up with some predictions too. Then people can grab onto it, because the white noise is cut out.
There has to be some taking hold of the experiences people are having across the globe. The fact that the sea-level is rising in Florida is an everyday experience. Streets are awash with water at midday under bone dry skies - not because of a water main break. The water is coming in from the ocean.
Otherwise, we need a catastrophic event to shock the system.
We'll get them. They'll come. They will be a shock because we couldn't have imagined how the earth system would adjust. The scientists have long told us that global warming will mean wild, unpredictable, and extreme, weather events.
But the proofs are more close to home: watching the bird migrations, watching the insects, observing the planting season shift, finding the emergence of warm weather blights where before there were none. These observations are in fact more critical because having to do with our food supply.
Unlikely I would go on to be interviewed. Like being anonymous too much.
