Global Warming, the 13th Tipping Point

[Shoelace]

that would be us - Humanity!

An amazingly lucid article here from AlterNet about what we can do in realtime to stop, to at least - let it be said that we did TRY to stop this madness.

The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted February 1, 2007. (excerpts)
Environmentalist Bill McKibben explains that forcing Congress to take action on climate change is the top priority. Fortunately, he has a plan.
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If anyone knows what's at stake it's McKibben. He wrote the first book on global warming, The End of Nature, published in 1989. Since then, he has been writing and speaking on the subject, but most people have been unwilling to listen. Until recently.

"Some time last year I finally reached a point of despair about how little was being done," he said. "With a few friends we decided to organize this march across Vermont where I live. After five days of walking across the state we had about 1,000 people, which was good. It turned all our candidates for federal office into tremendous advocates for doing strong things about global warming."




A few years ago scientist John Schellnhuber at the United Kingdom's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research identified 12 "global-warming tipping points." Writing recently for Mother Jones, Julia Whitty came up with the 13th tipping point -- us.

"So what will it take to trigger what we might call the 13th tipping point: the shift in human perception from personal denial to personal responsibility?" she wrote. "Without the 13th tipping point, we can't hope to avoid global mayhem. With it, we can attempt to put into action what we profess: that we actually care about our children's and grandchildren's futures."

Step It Up 2007 is perfect time to begin the process of shifting to personal responsibility. It is no longer enough to use compact fluorescent bulbs and drive hybrids.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47064/

>Read up and do what you can. The future of our children and all life forms depends on what we do now. This is urgent and it's in our faces so please do NOT give up.

Also, the Senate, House of Reps both are going to be holding major climate change hearings this week so watch C-SPAN and here's a link to the program schedules and other news.

http://www.c-span.org/

[Pharaoh]

1. Thanks shoelace!

And welcome to DU! :toast:

Unfortunately most won't change yet. Although I feel mother nature has some real nasty suprises for us down the road shortly. Mother Earth will eventually see us as a virus which is killing her and try and defend herself.