But I'm not sure that anyone (at least anyone who's going to hear about this concert) is unaware of the issue.  I would like someone to convince me that this concert is going to do any good.

Bikes can save us!!

Can there be more important work than saving the Earth as a fit place for human habitation?  Is this not the huge challenge that is posed to humanity in these early years of Century XXI?  

As things are going now, we can expect that 1)skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, 2) endless expansion of production capabilities of large-scale business enterprises and 3) unbridled human overconsumption of limited resources, when taken together, could literally overwhelm the frangible ecosystem services provided by the relatively small, finite, noticeably fragile celestial orb God has blessed us to inhabit. The gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of these distinctly human activities, that are now overspreading our planetary home, could be approaching a point in human history when global production, consumption and propagation activities of the human species become patently unsustainable on a planet the size of Earth.

For humanity to address the global warming challenge seems like a good way to begin to save the world as we know it for our children and coming generations.  After all, the best available, good scientific evidence indicates with remarkable clarity that human beings are a primary driver of processes that are giving rise to the global warming phenomenon.  Inasmuch as global warming is derived, at least in large part, from human over-growth activities, it is reasonable to believe that the human community community will make the adaptations necessary to ameliorate the pernicious effects of climate change.

Thanks for everything each of you is doing to ovecome global warming, to preserve biodiversity from extinction, to protect the environment from irreversible degradation and the human species from potential danger.

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population

Change is a crazy project. It is not a straight shot. In fact it is nothing but twists and turns and wierd bank shots that any pool player would admire. If this isn't bad enough, the actions you take, will often not bear fruit for years.

So put a smile on that long face, and go out and do something. No one knows what will work or not, but you will never know if you do not try.

Rand Cunningham

Randy Cunningham

Some of our leaders appear to be running away from real global challenges looming before humanity, as if they had seen a calamity in the making. Other leaders are promising pie-in-the-sky, "techno-fix" solutions for threats to human wellbeing and environmental health. Still others have apparently adopted the posture of an ostrich by placing their heads in the sand. Last but not least, we have a group of commanders of others who pose as hysterically deaf or blind and have become electively mute.

These various means of denying what could be called "some stark aspects of reality" are not helpful to anyone, I suppose, except those in powerful positions and their minions. They keep their wealth, power and privileges by maintaining the status quo, regardless of the potential for catastrophic circumstances in the offing, circumstances already dimly visible on the far horizon. Many too many, soon to be erstwhile leaders of the human community have allowed unbridled self-interests to literally separate themselves from a meaningful regard for humanity, for life as we know it, for a future of children and coming generations, and for the maintenance of the integrity of Earth and its ecosphere.

Thankfully, the human community is blessed with still other leaders, intellectually honest and courageous leaders, like UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Al Gore, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Professor Al Bartlett, IPCC Vice Chair Mohan Munasinghe, Dr. Ernst von Weizsaecker, John Guillebaud, US Senator Bernie Sanders, Paul Chefurka, David Wasdell, Jean Krasno, Joseph Baker, Dame Jane Goodall, Jeffrey McNeely, Seti Sastrapradja, Vivian Ponniah, Peter Salonius, Hazel Henderson, Peter Nobel, Mickey Glantz, Margaret Swedish, Emily Spence, Susan B. Adamo, John C. Feeney, Lester Brown, Gretchen Daily, Bill Rees, Richard Duncan, Pentti Malaska, Deborah Byrd, Jean Gilbertson, Scott Walker, Alex de Sherbinin, Anne Ehrlich, Ashok Khosla, Paul Hawken, Werner Fornos, Jean Francois Rischard, Jan Janssens, Raoul Weiler, Mathis Wackernagel, Emily Spence, David Blockstein, Dave Roberts, Joe Romm and no less than 2000 IPCC scientists. Who knows, these and emerging leaders among our youth could be ready to "square up" to the global challenges soon be confronted by humankind, perhaps in these early years of Century XXI.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
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