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   wesrolley Posted 2:26 am
   17 Jan 2009

   Send it to Pelosi and ReidMy biggest worry is not that the Obama administration has the wrong targets, but that the leadership of this Congress will not be willing to go to the wall to do what must be done.  Both Reid and Pelosi give more weight to the calculus of vote counting than they do to the science of climate change.  They will compromise away our future.
   I recently re-read the text of the 7th Generation Amendment that was proposed by the late Walt Bresette.  Unless we begin to consider the ongoing consequences of our actions or in-actions, there may be no 7th Generation.
   
   Wes Rolley
   
   
   
   CoChair - EcoAction Committee
   
   Green Party US

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 10:32 pm
   18 Jan 2009

   A jeremiad, I suppose...............My not-so-great generation of elders will likely be remembered as the perpetrators of the most perverse, self-serving silence in human history. No other generation has taken so much from this good Earth, threatened the very future of its own children and given so little of themselves to preserve life for coming generations. Photographs of us will disclose both our corpulence and hollowness.
   Although the disclosure of truth is unsettling, hiding the truth from the human community could be a monstrous example of human-driven foolery, one that could soon lead to a colossal ecological wreckage.
   To suppress the truth by conscientiously substituting whatsoever could somehow be true with willful silence is tantamount to the commission of a pernicious lie.
   A widely shared and consensually validated determination among people with knowledge to maintain their silence, when remaining silent betrays intellectual honesty, conceals the truth and thwarts courageous action, is the most dangerous of all global threats to the family of humanity, life as we know it and the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.
   From this perspective, perhaps we can begin to apprehend the actual, most formidable enemy of future human wellbeing and environmental health.
   Steven Earl Salmony
   
   AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
   
   established 2001
   
   http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1 ...
   
   http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php
   
   http://www.panearth.org

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