It's your world
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article354271.ece
I posted a few days ago saying "What do ya do when you look out at the state of the world" and then talked about the destruction of our global environment.
It is our world, the world of your children and their children.
Protest has returned again. The earlier riots in France were the precessor of the recent student protests about a change in the employment law in France which was there to "help" the economy but at the same time putting young people at a disadvantage.
I don't believe that violent protest helps but going back to when I was younger France always had a reputation for radical protest. Possibly because of the influence of its history around the revolution. I don't believe that violence influences in a good way though. I think it takes away from the seriousness of protest and can lead to the protest being remembered for its violence rather that its message and gives the powers that be reason to ignore it sometimes. They will just focus on the violence making it look as if the people involved were there for violence rather than to make a political point.
As far as I can see the planet is in serious trouble because it's now entering a stage where one event caused by global warming is affecting other systems and causing a sort of roll on effect. It needs a lot of talking about. We've been told that emissions will be sorted out in thirty or so years. There's no way, looking at what is begining to happen that this makes sense. You can hope that something will happen that no one knows about or can predict that will stabilize it, but that doesn't look as if it's on the cards.
People need to get involved and talk and do projects and learn about what is happening. What else is there to do.
Understand not just about global climate change, but also the difficulty when looking at the relationship between different countries and commerce and other types of global stability too.
It's our world.
I posted a few days ago saying "What do ya do when you look out at the state of the world" and then talked about the destruction of our global environment.
It is our world, the world of your children and their children.
Protest has returned again. The earlier riots in France were the precessor of the recent student protests about a change in the employment law in France which was there to "help" the economy but at the same time putting young people at a disadvantage.
I don't believe that violent protest helps but going back to when I was younger France always had a reputation for radical protest. Possibly because of the influence of its history around the revolution. I don't believe that violence influences in a good way though. I think it takes away from the seriousness of protest and can lead to the protest being remembered for its violence rather that its message and gives the powers that be reason to ignore it sometimes. They will just focus on the violence making it look as if the people involved were there for violence rather than to make a political point.
As far as I can see the planet is in serious trouble because it's now entering a stage where one event caused by global warming is affecting other systems and causing a sort of roll on effect. It needs a lot of talking about. We've been told that emissions will be sorted out in thirty or so years. There's no way, looking at what is begining to happen that this makes sense. You can hope that something will happen that no one knows about or can predict that will stabilize it, but that doesn't look as if it's on the cards.
People need to get involved and talk and do projects and learn about what is happening. What else is there to do.
Understand not just about global climate change, but also the difficulty when looking at the relationship between different countries and commerce and other types of global stability too.
It's our world.
posted by Zeb at 9:49 AM
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