Strange strange times indeed on our little planet earth and her 6+ billion inhabitants of the human species...
Anyway, this week, 2 major things happened: The Global Wake-Up Call + AGE OF STUPID 
Finally the world is
waking up to the fact that we are in
serious environmental trouble, for some there is sheer despair that its already too late, but for many more they see these days as perhaps the most important we, as
a collective species, have had to or might ever have to deal with.
- Years ago, for the most part, there was huge
ignorance of the mess we were getting into.
- In 10 or 20 years
it will probably be too late, because unless we change our ways now, we will have inadvertantly set of the eco time bomb we have been building in the last few years.
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here and now, we have the opportunity to change things, to really change things. For many it is an
opportunity to stand up and participate in this process for change. Governments wont act unless we force them, that only happens when there is a
critical mass movement to force that change, a few years ago, that looked so unlikely to happen. But now, that
all seems to be changing, thankfully.
Acts of absolute creativity, bottom up organisation, celebrational actions, mass invitation to join the party (not political party but feasta, or fiesta), its catching, people are beggining to be buzzed up, they seem to be WAKING UP. Cynics might say "its not enough", but its a start. Also positivity and imagination are powerfull tools for change. And with that, why not let us imagine the
best case scenario; we all wake up, true global understanding,
solidarity and action links are forged, massive change happens, the worlds problems get sorted, and we end up happier in the post oil age than we were in the last few years of its sad existence (bank bail outs, nama cuts, depression, suicide, obesity, boredom, columbine...)
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The Global Wake-Up Call 210909 Quote:
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On 21 September 2009, at more than 2600 events in 135 countries across the globe, we joined together to issue a deafening wake-up call to world leaders on climate change. The breadth and creativity of events is breathtaking, and our message broke through to leaders and international media.
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The Global Wake-Up Call 210909 - 2682 events, 135 countries, 5 continents
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AGE OF STUPID 220909 Quote:
The Age of Stupid is a 2009 film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel & founder of 10:10, and John Battsek, producer of One Day in September. The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as the last person alive in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The film was released internationally on 21 September and 22 September at the "Global Premiere". A green carpet, solar-powered cinema tent in New York was linked by satellite to 442 cinemas across the USA and to more than 200 cinemas in more than 45 other countries. Special guests included Kofi Annan, Pete Postlethwaite and Gillian Anderson. Popular musicians Moby and Thom Yorke performed live.
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AGE OF STUPID 220909 
YouTube - The Age Of Stupid on Channel 4 TV news