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Well, I trust you're all generating your own power to run those dual 22" LCD displays, 95W quad core processors, and graphics cards; not to mention the coffee pot and pencil sharpener. And keep in mind a black background while designing your web-site, like this one www.adamJsteele.com

Carbon Tyrants

Deafening silence, what a compelling irony. I think the real irony is you labeling us as zombies. Let me ask you, which of the global tyrants signs your paycheck, Exxon-Mobil, GM? Your seeds of doubt are not welcome here. Your employers' campaign to "purposely confuse people" is witty at best. Imagine commissioning people to comment at environmental news sites in an attempt to cloud our most pressing issues. How one barters their soul for the crumbs from the table of big oil or an auto giant is beyond me. How disgraceful. Obviously there are those here among us that feel that life is but a joke. But let us stop talking falsely now, the hour's getting late, hahaha.

[The only way to defeat them is to recondition the battlefield -- to build such a pervasive wave of public pressure that no matter which politicians get elected, each will feel compelled to take action, even if it means disappointing ExxonMobil and friends. As Gore told Time, the climate crisis "requires a fundamental shift in public opinion at the grassroots level to embolden members of the legislative branch to take action."] We are that "grassroots level", we the people. You have the power to change things. Go to a step-it-up rally, check out 1sky.org, if you're a parent or teacher check out gogreeninitiative.org, start a framers market or a local environmental group. It's our moral obligation to build the grassroots green movement.

"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect."

- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Why Al Gore isn't running for president posted 1 year, 10 months ago 25 Responses