Lucky 100

It's funny how things turn out. This is my 100th post since I started this new blog. And it seems to take me back to the beginning.

So our Dear Leaders are arriving in Copenhagen. And it seems that chances of a climate deal are getting slimmer every second. Some states are walking out, ministers are quitting, rich countries continue to dominate poor ones. Same old song and dance. If this was an Israel-Palestine "peace" conference then this would be fine, business as usual, more settlements, more stolen land and we could all go back to the television or computer. But this is about the end of a stable and balmy climate, the time that has allowed so much life to flourish. If we continue to act as we have been since the industrial revolution then we risk our own species (fine) but countless others as well (unacceptable).

To all the people that care about reducing our emissions and at least trying to stop runaway change: what are you going to do now? These talks are going to fail. There is going to be no deal because the corporations and politicians and elites that have benefited from all this hyper consumption and extreme energy consumption can't allow one.

Here's a more straightforward example. I had an amazing conversation about doctors the other day; doctors can't want people to be well, otherwise they would be out of a job. So they have no interest in actually having people reduce their self-destructive practices, the choices that make them sick. It's easier to hand out some pills. But that's an aside.

What are you going to do now? This is the question. If you finally know that everything is on the line are you going to finally do something? Or do you still have some faith that if you go to work every day and join candlelight vigils and write letters to politicians and achieve nothing? Or are you going to walk away from your violent and self-destructive society, recognizing that it's irredeemable? Or better still are you going to smash the systems that cause all these emissions and risk life on earth?

Of course I write this in front of a computer in an office in a city so I'm a part of the destruction of our planet just as much as all of us. So fuck it. Do what you want. That's what the saboteurs at Copenhagen want anyway.