{"id":5415,"date":"2012-12-07T04:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T09:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2012-12-01T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T20:06:02","slug":"year-3-month-12-day-7-if-you-are-not-a-reality-whose-myth-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-12-day-7-if-you-are-not-a-reality-whose-myth-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 12, Day 7: If You Are Not A Reality, Whose Myth Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports on one of the first-ever climate protests in Qatar:<\/a><\/p>\n

DOHA, Qatar \u2014 A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration Saturday for \u201cclimate justice\u201d in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are debating about how to slow global warming and help protect the most vulnerable countries from rising seas and other impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n

Waving banners saying \u201cStop climate change\u201d and \u201cArabs reduce emissions,\u201d the well-behaved crowd marched along the Qatari capital\u2019s Corniche, a waterfront walkway lined by gleaming skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

Khalid al-Mohannadi, one of the organizers, noted that \u201cit\u2019s not a protest, it\u2019s a march for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The march was billed as the first environmental rally ever in the wealthy emirate, which is hosting the two-week U.N. talks aimed at forging a global deal to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
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This is a quick and dirty revision of yesterday’s letter, but I think it came out damn well, considering. December 1:<\/p>\n

Hard on the heels of the World Meteorological Organization’s declaration that 2012 has seen record-breaking weather extremes everywhere on Earth, Christiana Figueres, the United Nations’ climate chief, tells us she doesn’t perceive much public pressure “for governments to take on more ambitious and more courageous decisions.” Indeed, it really seems that just as our global environment is heading to catastrophic imbalance, our political systems are essentially paralyzed. <\/p>\n

There’s certainly no shortage of pressure, as this week’s demonstrations by environmentalists at the Doha conference show. For decades, millions of people have clamored for responsible climate policies, signing petitions, making phone calls, writing letters and marching. But the sad fact is that the innumerable voices of individual citizens are still too easily drowned out by the grotesquely amplified “speech” of the fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists. The public pressure’s there, all right \u2014 but millions of dollars speak louder than millions of people.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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