cons: it will take time until I try something like that again
pros: I will be a lot more wily and careful next time – present facts and let them draw their own conclusions

Changing one’s own behavior is a necessary witness. Persuading other individuals to see the need to change their behavior and a culture (large or small) to change its ways is a huge, equally necessary proposition–but one that seems to be working, judging from the huge up-swelling of conferences, actions and projects I’m seeing in my own region. Which does nothing to answer the question of whether we can stay on the tightrope long enough to cross the abyss to a sustainable future. Yet one doesn’t want to go to one’s death not having done one’s utmost to help others prepare for that future, in the hope that enough people will do enough to help earth systems recover.

I have to wonder, though, about how much fundamental understanding of economics and, especially, capitalism, underlies these comments.

If we haven’t yet discovered how ruthless and evil the capitalist system is (talk to your nearest foreclosed neighbor), it will soon become clear to us all as the system crashes.

The moneyed, wealthy class is riding a high tide right now, with the aid and abettance of the federal governament. It won’t be long though, until these fat cats are dragged into the gutter and strung up like the Romanovs in Russia who clutched their fabulous Faberge eggs until the very bitter end.

Ethrnocentic Ameikans will not be spared a similar fate, alas, as the truth, albeit lately, begins to dawn. Why, or how, can we justify 5% of world popillation consuming so much and prodicing so much garbage?

It was never designed to be sustainable. Only to make $$$ for the moneyed class. Today’s economic “crisis” is exactly what was intended by the Goldmans, the Sachs and, particularly, the Rockefellers and others of their ilk. Help me out here—who else would you put the “enenies” list?

The tine is coming. Will you be ready???

B