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.
- BUT 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...)



- The Global Wake-Up Call 210909


The Global Wake-Up Call 210909 - 2682 events, 135 countries, 5 continents


- AGE OF STUPID 220909


AGE OF STUPID 220909

YouTube - The Age Of Stupid on Channel 4 TV news

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Age of Stupid - upcoming Irish event

Free Screening of 'Age of Stupid' 8pm AM150, NUIG - Galway
Tuesday September 29 2009 Start Time: 08:00 PM
more info here

PS- Pete Postlethwaite is the actor who stated "my name is Giuseppe Conlon and I am an innocent man" in "the name of the father" regarding the story of the Guilford 4 frameup

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Meanwhile, still in the AGE OF STUPID, people argue whether this climate change thing is real or not....

Another nail in the coffin for global warming

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Man made climate change=load of old rubbish.

Global pollution-Now THAT'S a totally different story altogether. There's no denying human activity is slowing killing the planet by poisoning the sea, land, and air. But man made climate change? Nonsense, utter nonsense. The emphasis should be on pollution (but wouldn't that mean holding big companies like Shell accountable?)

Careful Tommy we wouldnt want Mary Harneys ego getting any bigger

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tommy tayto; i disagree, many more do more, see that debate on the other thread



tv reports from the days of the new york and europoe premiers of AGE OF STUPID

SKY NEWS -
Global premiere of climate film 'The Age of Stupid' (from NEW YORK)
YouTube - Global premiere of climate film 'The Age of Stupid'

BBC - Pete Postlethwaite on the Green Carpet

Moby lays it down... (NEW YORK PREMIERE NIGHT)

Pete Postlethwaite

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And what have you to say about the people who propose solutions and get very little support from the green movement.

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who or what do you define as green movement?

for me, and many more, the beaurocracy of state systems does not or possibly can not get us out of this mess.

we have to act now, take action to stop emissions and learn how to change our own worlds, in that way the "green movement" becomes healthier as it changes as we do

examples of these movements, all "green";

climate camps

transition towns






vids about these green movements

a little bit about climate camp

Transtion founder rob hopkins explains things

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Thanks I am much enlightened

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People like the Spirit of Ireland bunch? Since SoI hasn't put out a press release since May, I expect that many people don't know about it. Others, like Andy Wilson, don't think that it is financially viable, and can show it. It's called peer review.

It is these systems that enable the creation and distribution of films like the Age of Stupid, the internet and Youtube videos. The state is not going to disappear any time soon, and we share the planet with them. They have to be accomodated.

PS Where did the Galway bunch get a copy of the film?

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