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February 9, 2009
Scientists Take Action If They Trust Their Own Evidence
By Clinton Callahan
How much longer will you continue believing that the system that created global warming and financial collapse has the capacity to fix it? (Einstein's bomb worked, remember, so he may be right about this too.) How much longer will you wait before taking action? Here is a clear list of what you can do now.
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I have lately been thinking that we are coming down to the go/no-go moment in terms of preventing the Siberian methane tipping point from avalanching into unstoppable global warming.I have been thinking it is time for scientists around the world who trust their own global warming evidence to withdraw from the system that propagates the global warming.
Withdrawal from the system would be neither symbolic nor philosophical. Withdrawal would be sudden, total and drastic.
This would require great personal efforts on the part of the scientists, our families, teams, companies and organizations. But if withdrawal could critically disable the carbon economy, its earlier collapse would avoid even greater suffering from flood, draught and worldwide famine.
Abandoning modern culture proactively as a result of trusting scientific evidence would prove that human intelligence exists. To continue a carbon-hungry consumer lifestyle in the face of recent climate-change knowledge makes us no more intelligent than bacteria, consuming beyond the carrying capacity of their resources and dieing in their own wastes.
Withdrawal is simple and already proven to be effective. It is nonviolent noncooperation with whatever is nonsustainable. www.just-stop.org
This would include:
If scientists, researchers and others who already see the perfect storm about to hit humanity trust their own findings and immediately and completely abandoned the system that generates the problems, perhaps the system would not continue. Then we Homo sapiens would have a chance to bear out our name.
What do you think about this?
What are you willing to say and do along these lines?
What practical steps will you take now? Next week? Next month?
What are the people you know willing to say and do about this?
It is for certain that most won't agree. Could you take action even if others won't?
How much longer will you wait before you replace talk with personal action?
For creative collaboration and support for your actions, connect with us at www.just-stop.org.
Clinton Callahan, originator of Possibility Management and Expand The Box trainings, author of Building Love That Lasts, Conscious Feelings, No Reason, White Witch of Tenerife, and Good Night Feelings. Clinton is a Possibilitator, Transformational Circle Alchemist, Memetic Engineer, co-creator of the StartOver game, co-founder of General Memetics in the nanonation of Possibilica, Integrity Clarity Possibility Love Initiation and High-Level-Fun, Member of the Possibility Management Trainer Guild, committed to upgrading human thoughtware so we can play together at our highest potential.