(Is having no planet to live upon actually BS?)

November 10, 2016, at the September 2016 urging of the most trustworthy, experienced, intelligent leader among my many mentors, I launched a new Ending Climate Change initiative which adds Climate Change activism to Ending Racism.

RATIONALE: "If Black and Brown Lives Matter (or Blue or White or Rainbow Lives Matter), don't those lives by definition need a planet to sustain them? And since these two legacies of Greed began at roughly the same time, they might as well end at the same time.

In the case of the loss of the planet, that needs to happen very soon. It may already be too late. Ooops!"

So if you are truly serious about putting your brilliance into that effort, I want to be in closer touch with you than we ever have been before. The same day you read this. Or the same day you reach your own tipping point about the need for fast, smart, comprehensive action. PM's titled "Exchanging contact info" (name IRL, email, cell) will be helpful. Friending (or refriending) me at Facebook, ditto.


HOMEWORK?

Yes. I think it is essential that we share a common language and knowledge base, before we all run off to do our thing; a new set of easily digested info has broken it down for us to run with. So, since I am probably the most ignorant person on the planet about Climate Change science-- and the many names by this has been worried about before-- I thought it might make sense to just lay out the best of the simplest resources I have found, as a starting point for us, and for any new people we will need to try to reach. (A side benefit-- people who will not do homework will probably not do any other sustained efforts, either, and may more properly be considered as a funding base.)

These newer items help distill a really big problem… with very complicated science… into an emotionally-manageable message: "It is definitely time to get busy."

This is an approximately weekend-length assignment, which you will do at your own speed.

•        View BEFORE THE FLOOD (the recent DiCaprio documentary easily found at Youtube), preferably with friends. After viewing, please post/send me a couple of paragraphs on, "What was YOUR tipping point?'-- when you realized that reversing Climate Change is now your key issue to confront? How does this relate to ending racism?"

•        Read http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/the_case   Read this "case statement"/history of and description of one approach to "Mobilization"-- making a note of pieces of it that relate to:
1. Your other, biggest, longstanding political passion;
2. Constituencies that seem to hear you;
3. How the options described relate to the headlines of "today" (meaning, whenever you start with us).

(Because: those who did not experience WWII as adults need this clear description of what WWII Mobilization was, as well as a piece by piece explanation of why the US would mobilize for climate, what it would look like, and how to do it ethically.)

•        http://www.naacp.org/latest/geopolitics-of-climate-changea-civil-rights-perspective/ Get up to speed with what NAACP has been doing for many years.

•        https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cMvqc5SWjq_zVbKpocY63jFDLEOr_DITVmzRfcjMzxY/edit?usp=sharing   Some folks prefer slideshow presentations; hear/see the same info, again.

•        http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/26/important-message-keeper-sacred-white-buffalo-calf-pipe We must include US Indigenous voices, and we can't simply assume that everyone has actually heard how to understand 'our' 'current' passion, "Standing Rock/NoDAPL."



Obviously, it's now pretty busy at our place. I have about 18-24 months to give online support/leadership on this before we have a big tipping point of our own that may preclude my internet access. (By then I hope to be strictly face to face in this effort.)


I am NOT interested in answering questions Google can give. I am NOT interested in debating CC (pdg has an old thread easily found that may be renewed for that). Or Systemic Racism. Or polar bears.

I am NOT interested in any distractions about Cheetoism (trumpism)-- that's just a motivation you might find effective to reach other folks.

I WILL answer very simple questions that will help YOU mobilize on what ever way makes sense for you. I WILL add resources as I find them.

~Susan
sorry for any yptos