Comments: Scientists target safe-climate future

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Creating a Safe-Climate Lifestyle

Friday, March 14, 2008
March 15, 3008

In the midst of doing some reading online the other day, a certain
phrase popped out at me from a press release from an Australian green
group that spoke about a "safe-climate future" in an article by Ryan
King headlined "Scientists target safe-climate future".

The term SAFE CLIMATE jumped out at me, as I saw its similarities to
SAFE SEX as a PR catchword, so I began to try to formulate a way to use
this in a good way for climate activists. I came up with the concept
of "safe-climate lifestyle" as a term to mean living a lifestyle that
recognizes that global warming is real and trying to leave as small a
carbon footprint as possible and working in whatever ways one feels
are important to help mitigate the problems we are now facing.

So a question to those reading this blogpost: for feedback. Does this have a good ring
to it, sound good, should we try to make this term popular among green
activists and the media?

As in: "Local citizens gather to discuss
safe-climate lifestyles" (as a headline in a local newspaper in
Anytown, USA).

I like it. What do you think? COMMENTS BELOW APPRECIATED OR EMAIL ME at danbloom {one word, no space) in the GMAIL place. You know how that works. Go!

-- Danny Bloom

ONLINE CURATOR: "THE JAMES E LOVELOCK VIRTUAL MUSEUM POLAR CITIES"

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danny

Great post. have sent the link to reporters at AP and Reuters Sborenstein and Alister Doyle and dotearth

maybe send again from your end too.

this needs to be on wire services ASAP

code red indeed!

safe-climate. sounds like safe-sex!

danny

Unfortunately current economic systems in place will only allow for market reaction at the point where environmental degradation becomes potentially irreversable. The current free market is unable to plan much beyond the immediate 2-3 quarters and, although the consequences of climate change/environmental degradation is well known and understood by capitalists and govt., the free market system on its own cannot be relied upon to enact the necessary long term changes needed to avoid disaster. In other words, under the current market system deforestation will continue until they are no trees left,.. climate change will accelerate until the countries emitting the CO2 collapse economically from the environmental degradation that results. The current dynamic of a capitalistic based society can only react to catastrophic change and not prevent it. Unfortunately in the case of climate change and biodiversity destruction once the degradation has reached the point of forcing change that same degradation is likely to be irrevisible. Only immediate, extensive regulatory intervention internationally in the form of market limitations, rules of environmental conservation, movement to a steady state economy and a carbon trading system backed up by legal and policed enforcement can prevent what is so far appearing to be inevitable ecological collapse on a planetary scale. The proponents of a free and unregulated capitalistic economic system either fail to see or are unwilling to accept that the same freedom of choice they support is actually endangered by their own unwillingness to change. Once forced to adapt virtually any economic freedom, that is the basis of a free market, will be lost. Hence, unregulated capitalism is unsustainable for both the environment and for itself.

great comment JF, i agree with your characterization but disagree with your proposed solutions. i do not believe solutions will emerge from within any of the existing power structures or economic systems - they are based in values which are inherently separated from the realities of our place in the biosphere.

there is however, a powerful, growing, and uniting radical movement working to alter the course of industrial civilization both in infrastructure and culture. systemic catastrophes require systemic solutions.

some resources:
www.gnn.tv
http://www.derrickjensen.org/
www.jeffvail.net

(r)evolution or extinction
ryan king, ms

ryan king

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