[CitizensTruth] Evade Human Extinction Now!

[Daniel Stafford]

/*Evade Human Extinction Now!*/

After watching /The 11th Hour/ <http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/>, an 
environmental film on a scale even greater than /An Inconvenient Truth/ 
<http://www.climatecrisis.net/>, I came away with several new 
understandings.

First of all, the climate change issue of global warming is really only 
the worst of a self-inflicted interconnected web of issues killing off 
species the world over. Together, all of these issues, from 
deforestation, to pollution, to killing off 90% of sea life, (something 
we've /*already done*/) are adding up to the perfect storm that will 
wipe the human species off the face of the planet in only a few 
generations if we don't act now. It isn't just global warming anymore. 
It isn't just pollution anymore. It isn't just species extinctions 
anymore. It isn't just crazy weather anymore. It isn't just overflowing 
land fills anymore. It's /*Evade Human Extinction Now!*/

As with everything else that is a result of a collective cultural 
insanity, framing the issue is one major key to solving it.

This Earth will continue spinning around the Sun whether or not we exist 
upon it. *We are making the choice, in the next ten to fifteen years, 
whether or not most life, including humans, will survive on this planet. 
It is that simple, and that direct, and that urgent*.

The good news is, once we have enough awareness built up out there, and 
the collective grass roots will to change, human society is capable of 
changing quite radically in a very short time. If Detroit can completely 
retool in six months during the 1940's from making cars to making tanks 
and airplanes, so can the rest of global industry.

Already, per //The 11th Hour/ <http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/>/, 
there are over one million environmental activist organizations around 
the world beginning to act in concert to effect large scale change.

If we /*as a species*/ do not follow their lead, the humankind can not 
survive more than another century or two on this planet. If we get it 
together, and work together, we can have a long and healthy run on this 
planet, and beyond. We can save the future of innumerable other species 
as well, many of which our own survival depends on in subtle but 
critical ways.

Watch //The 11th Hour/ <http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/> /all the 
way through, and you'll see an integrated presentation of the problems 
we face during the first half. That alone is more than most other films 
on such subjects have achieved. Many present only one facet of a larger 
picture. //The 11th Hour/ <http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/> /goes on 
to also present an integrated array of solutions. If there were 
unlimited time, perhaps many of those solutions could be explored more 
in depth, but there is plenty there to present the overall picture of a 
society of solutions instead of a society of destruction or of regression.

It is NOT necessary to go back to stone knives, berries, roots, and 
wearing skins. It is simply necessary to re-design modern society to be 
able to function withing the available resources and that preserves the 
diversity of life on this planet, including humans. Additionally, many 
possible resources we have available that would be beneficial instead of 
harmful are grossly under-utilized. In a strange way, this is actually 
good news, as it gives us something good to change TO.

Critically important is the concept that every person in global society 
votes, regardless of their age, every single time they make a purchase. 
Granted, what happens in the political voting booth has huge 
repercussions, but every day we vote with every bit of currency we spend 
as well.

So, to /*Evade Human Extinction Now, */what we really need to do is love 
and respect life, use forms of energy that are beneficial to life, and 
respect the rights of nature to coexist with us. If we don't respect the 
rights of natural systems to exist, they will ultimately fail - and no 
technology can save us from the loss of our own right to exist.

/*Evade Human Extinction Now! - */Our grandchildren and great 
grandchildren will be very grateful for it, and even we ourselves will 
end up with better lives as a result.

Choose life. I know we can do it. What I don't know is if we will do it.

With great hope,

Dan Stafford
Publisher: The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal 
<http://www.whizzyrds.com/Windblog.html>
Publisher: The 1st Church of Healing The Earth
<http://firstchurchhealingearth.blogspot.com/>

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