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<i><b>Evade Human Extinction Now!</b></i><br>
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After watching <a href="http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/"><i>The
11th Hour</i></a>, an environmental film on a scale even greater than <a
href="http://www.climatecrisis.net/"><i>An Inconvenient Truth</i></a>,
I came away with several new understandings.<br>
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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 <i><b>already done</b></i>) 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 <i><b>Evade Human Extinction Now!</b></i><br>
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As with everything else that is a result of a collective cultural
insanity, framing the issue is one major key to solving it.<br>
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This Earth will continue spinning around the Sun whether or not we
exist upon it. <b>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</b>.<br>
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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.<br>
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Already, per <i><a href="http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/"><i>The
11th Hour</i></a></i>, there are over one million environmental
activist organizations around the world beginning to act in concert to
effect large scale change.<br>
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If we <i><b>as a species</b></i> 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.<br>
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Watch <i><a href="http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/"><i>The 11th Hour</i></a>
</i>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. <i><a
href="http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/"><i>The 11th Hour</i></a> </i>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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So, to <i><b>Evade Human Extinction Now, </b></i>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.<br>
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<i><b>Evade Human Extinction Now! - </b></i>Our grandchildren and
great grandchildren will be very grateful for it, and even we ourselves
will end up with better lives as a result.<br>
<br>
Choose life. I know we can do it. What I don't know is if we will do it.<br>
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With great hope,<br>
<br>
Dan Stafford<br>
Publisher: <a href="http://www.whizzyrds.com/Windblog.html">The Great
Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal</a><br>
Publisher: <a href="http://firstchurchhealingearth.blogspot.com/">The
1st Church of Healing The Earth<br>
</a><br>
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