<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; line-height: 20px;" class=""><b class=""><a id="ct3_0" href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-06ea-1908/Bct/q-003a/l-sf-lead-0014:1bc74/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6709vudjZ" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;" class="">'No Time Left for Business as Usual': Climate Activists Plan Day of Mass Civil Disobedience to #ShutDownDC</a></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; line-height: 20px;" class=""><div class="clearfix" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; clear: both; overflow: hidden; line-height: 20px;"><div class="inline-image inline inline-image-align-left" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; display: inline; float: left; width: auto; line-height: 20px;"><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">"There's a tremendous amount of power that drives through those streets and parks next to those sidewalks and walks into those buildings. We want them to think about what they're doing with that power."</span></div></div></div><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/no-time-left-business-usual-climate-activists-plan-day-mass-civil-disobedience?" class="">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/no-time-left-business-usual-climate-activists-plan-day-mass-civil-disobedience?</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">—————————————————————————————————————————————————<br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades,”</span> said Bea Ruiz, also an organizer with the U.S. national [ Extinction Rebellion ] team. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.”</span><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class="">July 22 2019<br class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/</a><br class=""></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">************************************************<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough.</span> <br class=""><br class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> “Over the past century, the total <b class="">material </b>wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” </span><br class=""><br class="">They end it saying<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span><br class=""><br class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. <br class=""><br class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times. Writing about the Green New Deal for Bloomberg, Denning has come to the conclusion that, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,”</span> and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</a><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> =-----------------------------------------------===-------------------------------------------=<br class=""><br class="">“Full of recent references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the growing chorus of warnings about <br class="">the current trajectory of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension. <br class=""><br class="">“One can quibble with with some assumptions or tweak Smil's calculations, but the bottom line will not change, <br class="">only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”<br class=""><br class="">Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.<br class=""><br class="">Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil . <br class="">MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.</div></div></div></div>
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