To Rise or to Fall…That is the Question
By Holly M. Berkowitz
11 March 2016
America can not afford to
self-destruct.
Tell that to the cash-driven fossil
fuel industries
that are destroying US
Humans
have used human cash as an important tool to build great human cities and great
human civilizations for thousands of years….but our human cash system can also
crush and destroy the fragile but hidden, critical genetic potentials, genius
in every living cell, seed, seedling, soil, self that wants to reach up toward
light of our sun enough to produce abundant riches to count, to lift all up +
to produce critical but uncountable flows, cycles, logic, synergy, productivity
enough to keep human cities alive day to day and minute to minute…..now and
generations from now and longer.
So
human cities rose and fell. So human
civilizations rose and fell for thousands of years as humans crushed the
abilities of their land and lives to produce enough to carry them into a future
of any definition.
About
150 years ago, humans discovered that combustion of carbon molecules could
power our cities and transportation and dreams of totalitarian comfort and
convenience at all costs, blinding us….leading America to to build exponential
expansion, explosions of by for Industrial Revolution of sprawl to fill private
bank accounts of engineers of the artificial….while also crushing the ability
of nature, of life to produce enough critical flows, cycles, logic, synergy,
productivity of by for life to consume enough to function….obvious or not,
counted in cash or not.
So our
human cities rise and our human cities fall….as carbon emissions of the last
150 years have caused carbon levels to hit dangerous levels…the most
significant often hidden the most from most, carbon in air causing air to heat more and
more rapidly and with more extremes more and more chaotically through time,
especially the last decade, carbon levels highest now that in the last 15
millions years (XXXXXXXXX) disrupting critical abilities of life to function,
killing synergy between entire critical life systems on earth, cell to self to
globe and entire earth systems……
Earth
systems of life and land rarely obey laws of a linear, flat earth stuck in flat
walls of the simple.
Instead,
rising carbon levels, pollutant levels, heating, chaos has caused the most
rapid heating in our polar regions
· melting our polar regions as
rapidly as our yards after a snow,
· causing our 6th
extinction/Anthropocene even threatening the majestic Polar Bear,
· our global oceans absorbing heat
at the rate of about 4 atomic bombs per second…..triggering
· massive, unbelievable climate
catastrophes such as 3 to 5 of the most powerful Frankenstorms on earth to ever
hit land in the last 3 to 5 years (Winston, Haiyan, Sandy…),
· clear evidence of links between
carbon level buildup, heating and massive disruption of entire earth systems….
· CO2 causing our oceans to turn
acidic destroying shells in the ocean…
· a rapidly melting Greenland
threatening to cause earth’s oceans to rise about 20 feet in time….
· a rapidly melting Antarctica (64
degrees F last year) threatening to cause earth’s oceans to rise about 200 feet
in time….so that
· our US Pentagon/Department of
Defense warned the Bush-Cheney White House in 2004 that “climate change” is
causing a significant “national security threat” to the United States: Climate heating is causing
· massive destruction of the
ability of earth/land/life to produce enough critical flows and critical
productivity enough for many to consume…..for life and land to carry entire
populations into a future….
· causing massive migrations of
entire nations in search of a land that can produce enough to satisfy basic
critical needs of entire populations…..as Syria’s drought is the worst in 900
years….causing civil unrest/war that war and fossil fuel profiteers and liars
want to turn into private profits, manufacturing explosive hype to send
American dollars into their private bank account….at public taxpayer expense.
But a
cash-driven fossil fuel industry put Bush-Cheney into our nation’s White
House….and the fossil fuel industry profits privately from fossil fuel
extraction, shipping, processing, distribution, wars, consumption of fossil
fuels that caused the carbon emissions of the last 150 years, the last 35 years
that have caused Climate Armageddon in 2016.
The
fossil fuel industry pulls the strings of our US Executive Branch, our US
Legislative Branch and our US Judicial, it seems….because many/most Americans
assume erroneously that fossil fuels cause total comfort and convenience for
Americans….and that switching to another form of energy would cause pain and
suffering……but they are wrong.
As dead
fossilized energy becomes more and more scarce and more and more difficult and
costly and explosive and war-causing to access, extract, ship, process,
transport again, sell, clean up messes impossible to “clean up” causing
catastrophic health care costs, disabilities, premature death, epidemic loss of
producticvity of entire communities uncounted,…..political sluts blindly ignore
deadly costs uncounted by fossil fuel industry “creative accountants” and
political sluts hungry for empty dollars….
I had
nightmares for years about all nations of the world destroying their selves
over shrinking and poorer and poorer qualities and quantities of dying fossil fuels….that are
harder and harder, more and more expensive, difficult, self-destructive to
access…until I learned that:
· solar energy could satisfy all
energy needs on earth x 11,000 (ETOM 2013)
· wind energy could also satisfy
all energy needs on earth numerous times (AWEA 2015)
· water and waves could also
satisfy all energy needs on earth numerous times (Inhabitat 2015)
· not counting geothermal, waste
heat harvesting, biofuels of connecting the disconnected enough to activate
hidden genetic potetnials and power, treadmills, tomatoes, potatoes, ethanol,
gravity, imagination unlimited
So why
did the Iowa’s Iowa Utility Board /IUB even consider installing a tar sands
pipeline through Iowa, the “dirtiest fuel on the planet” that threatens to
crush, poison, destroy some of the best and most productive topsoil on earth,
spills impossible to “clean up” despite lies that the tar sands pipeline is
“safe” and that “Iowa needs the jobs”…..jobs cleaning up messes of tar sands
impossible to “clean up” only under 20
jobs after the pipeline is built…..and not “safe” but instead safer than train bombs of tar sands
or truck bombs of tar sands that explode and destroy entire communities in the
last several years, an obscene and illogical lie erected to blind us with emotional
button explosions so we’ll buy their snake oil….a tar sands pipeline through
Iowa meaning that the “game’s over” in our efforts to keep earth livable now
and generations from now.
We wont
buy the snake oil.
We
demand that our public represnestaitves represent even those without a voice,
damn it.
Iowa’s
Iowa Utility Board sold itself to a dirty,
deadly, catastrophic tar sands pipeline impossible to “clean –up” because the
pimps paid so much…..even after Republican Governor Branstad signed a
bipartisan (US) Governors’ Clean Energy Accord just weeks earlier to commit
Iowa to switching to “cleaner energy” of
Renewable Energy to lower our carbon emissions to lower our risks of
catastrophic climate heating that is casuing our 6th
extinction. Why? This makes no sense.
The
cash-driven fossil fuel industry and our human cash system does not represent
logic…and in fact try to obstruct access to vision and wisdom and scientific
literacy and logic or even common sense…… that we need to detect links between
deadly actions and deadly outcomes….as the cash-driven tobacco industry tried
to tell us not to worry and to trust the tobacco industry with our health.
That
was a mistake.
Our
cash-driven assumptions today are a deadly mistake also….and we are throwing
the deadly costs onto our own children, crushing their future, our nation’s
future, our own futures stupidly.
But
some just don’t get it and limit their counts to mechanical rates of human cash
that crush life on earth.
Humans
do not have long to lower carbon levels enough to stop runaway effects,
catastrophes caused by carbon molecule heating of our common
climate/atmosphere/air that I share with Exxon.
Doesn’t
my US Constitution protect me from criminals that try to hurt me?
Or are
we a cash-driven oil+archy now instead?
Does
the fossil fuel industry not even care about their own children’s future, their
own family’s future, their own private future?
All
hands on deck now to change the course of human history now:
· keep global heating under 1
degree Celsius (Hansen, 2016; www.ourchildrenstrust.org
2016) to keep earth livable
· leave the dinosaurs in the ground now to stop causing hell/6th
extinction on earth
· shift now to 100% Renewable Energy Economic Renaissance by 2050,
80% by 2030, 100% doable scientifically with political will ( www.100.org 2015
, www.thesolutionsproject.org 2015 , Jacobson MZ 2015 2016 )....100% doable if
the fossilized dead energy industries and GOP would help transition now....or
get out of the way...
· count more than mechanical rates of cash to redefine our word
"eco+nomic" as more than mechanical rates of human cash that crush
life on earth.....and learn to value the invaluable, the priceless, the
uncountable productivity and flows of by for life that we need to lift all 100%
up to light enough to count
· convert harsh, impermeable surfaces (e.g. urban heat islands and
eroded lands, wastelands, deserts) into absorbent, green, growing watersheds/oases/heaven
of by for
o
growing lush, tall, native vegetative buffer
strips and deep roots to cultivate and produce rich, organic topsoils enough to
absorb climate carbon to
o
reduce global climate carbon
levels as soon as possible to level enough to keep heating to under 1 degree C
,
o
to clean air/water/topsoil, life,
to clean up human messes/toxics (Licht, 2006, www.Ecolotree.com
, 2006), to
o
nurture positive potentials
enough to grow positives enough to fill in hungry voids of the negative to
prevent the negative, to
o
recharge groundwater aquifers and
o
nurture critical living systems
of by for air, water, topsoil growing green inalienables abundantly enough to
satisfy basic critical needs wants desires dreams of any living organism, to
o
produce critical but uncountable supplies
enough to consume, to consume critical but uncountable supplies enough to
produce, to
o
manage complex systems of public
infrastructure foundations and nature’s fragile producers with scientific
literacy and caring enough to
o
prevent deadly, costly
destruction of exponential negative cycles of by for floods, droughts, desertification,
exponential costs, catastrophes, climate heating, chaos, looting, cruelty,
desensitization that causes cruelty and negatives, deregulation of laws we need
to protect the innocent, collapse of human cities and human civilziations
....and to
o
prime the pump with necessary
resources to activate dying but critical water cycles, air cycles, life cycles,
flows, cycles, logic synergy productivity inalienable indivisible uncountable exchange,
cooperation, logic, creativity, abilities, wisdom, adaptation among living
organisms/schedules syncronized, to
o
activate dying watersheds, dying
life cycles, dying air cycles and entire earth systems such as our inalienable,
indivisible, uncountable patterns, flows, cyles, logic of the divine of by for climate,
oceans, land and life on earth growing
upwards toward light enough to grow heaven on earth instead...to buffer us and
life from extremes caused stupid and careless of the cash-driven…..to
o
nurture our cities enough to
nurture us in peace now and generations from now...
· demand that the cash-driven fossil fuel industries and GOP stop
obstructing, manipulating, destroying critical public flows of critical public
information and critical public resources of life and land and productivity and
cleansing that our public needs to keep earth and our common but uncountable future
together alive, earth and life and future impossible to count in mechanical
rates of private cash coins of only one obvious bank account now that crushes
life on earth....that crushes the future of the self stupidly
· hold criminals accountable for their crimes by demanding that
they help save their own children’s future, their own family’s future, their
own private future now from their evil, cruel, insensitive, destructive ways…..and
apply their energy and expertise and caring as a living organism (all hide
good, all hide bad in the self) to help America and world anda children/family
and self to shift now immediately from our deadly cash-driven fossil fuels
addictions and sprawl....immediately to a safer, more affordable, more
functional, more sharing, more productive, more positive, outcome-focused, public,
inalienable life-web, protective, nurturing, uplifting, synergistic, logical,
scientific, rewarding, satisfying Renewable Energy Economic Renaissance that
harvests free, infinite supplies of free, safe, affordable energy of by for all
100% to share freely enough to energize us and power our entire economy, all
needs enough to connect the disconnected enough to activate hidden genetic
potentials in our population, life and land enough to grow heaven abundantly
enough to lift all 100% up to satisfying self determination enough for all to
learn to laugh.....to build great human cities and great human
civilizations....to stop the self-destruction, cell or self or nation or
globe.....to learn to reach far beyond the obvious enough to discover and
document moral laws of reciprocity to fill in hungry voids of the
negative....and to grow heaven on earth instead....
· leave the dinosaurs and blinding, insensitive, desensitizing,
destructive, cash-driven stupidity in the ground to stop causing hell on earth
· reach far beyond the obvious, privatized, short-term absolutes
to discover nature’s wonders enough to adapt and survive
· care enough to reach beyond one private self of by for cash enough
to grow heaven on earth instead….to plant, protect and grow heaven on earth of
by for all to share freely, free from want, free from fear enough to care,
enough to
· balance critical flows of nature’s budget enough to balance our
own budget of cash
Care enough.....enough impossible to count in cash.
Thanks.
