Terrorism: Bah!

It's time to change the dialogue into the something constructive.

Terrorism, Iraq and the like aren't the menace that unchecked global pollution is. Not by any stretch.

Here's a bit of the George Monbiot interview on Democracy Now! from Friday, 30 April 2004.

AMY GOODMAN: I'm Amy Goodman here with Juan Gonzalez in our New York studio. We're used to speaking to him on the phone. It's great to have him in the studio. He traveled across the Atlantic, bringing us this book, Manifesto for a New World Order. Extreme global climate change and how does it fit into the global political picture, George?

GEORGE MONBIOT: This is the big, big problem that we're up against. Even the Pentagon now is listing it as possibly the foremost threat facing humankind, even the Pentagon. And we're looking at the possibility of making the living conditions, which permit human life to take place on earth, making those conditions impossible. It's a very interesting little snapshot of what could potentially happen. 250 million years ago, the Permian Period came to an end in a catastrophic way. About 90, 95% of all life forms were wiped out, including anything bigger than a small pig, i.e., anything bigger than ourselves or indeed, smaller than ourselves. The reason for this, huge emissions of carbon dioxide produced by volcanoes raise the world's temperature by six degrees. The current projections by the intergovernmental panel on climate change are talking about anything up to six degrees within this century. We could make the conditions which make human life possible -- we could destroy those conditions within this century, if we don't move very, very fast. What we have got to see is part of any just world order, and part of any world order which is actually going to permit people a decent standard of life, any people a decent standard of life, we have got to see a huge cutback in the consumption of fossil fuel.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Yet when it comes to change in this area, the Bush administration here in the United States is perhaps doing everything it can to set back all of the environmental efforts and reform that this country has been involved in now for the past 30 years.

GEORGE MONBIOT: That's right. It's a measure of effectiveness of the corporate propaganda relayed through the corporate media that people aren’t taking to the streets about this right now. I mean, this guy, George Bush, is endangering the conditions which make human life on earth possible. What could be worse than that? What could be a more appalling disastrous project than the one that he is following? If people are going to rebel about anything, that's the thing to rebel about.

Rebel. I'm ready for a real revolution.

See link above for full transcript of interview. AND, if you can, toss a few coppers their way.

UPDATE:The Independent is reporting that Antarctica will be the only habitable continent in 100 years unless our use of fossil fuels starts abating NOW! Much more at link. Get active. Cool off!