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Knowledge and convictions are of little consequence unless acted upon.
When faced with dire projections about the future of our planet, circumstances can overwhelm and, quite often, some variation of the phrase "Why bother -- what's the point?" becomes an all-too-common default.
But with so much at stake, inaction should never be an option. Instead, false presumptions of helplessness can lead to a series of revelations that can compel us to grow into more impressive people with higher standards for ourselves, our behavior, and instill in us a greater appreciation of our responsibility to others, and to all life.
With the knowledge of an imminent danger or injustice comes a moral obligation to expose and oppose it.
A few more you may know
"So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent."
~ Winston Churchill
"Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "too late."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
~ Petra Kelly, German Green Party
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing, would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
~ Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." ~ Edmund Burke
"Be isolated, be afraid, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened ... but do not be silenced." ~ Bertrand Russell
"First they came for..." ~ Martin Niemöller
RIGHT NOW
Difficult as it is to communicate, absorb and process, let alone accept...
Our shared atmosphere is on an accelerating course to reach a state of potentially unsurvivable, runaway climate extremes during the lives of today's children. (+4C by 2060s or sooner catastrophic / incompatible with organized civilization.)
Only emergency international action at emergency (world war-time) speed *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of what is already the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life EVER. (Compilation: Betrayal of Life.)
In this new age of environmental consequences, we can no longer afford to be soothed into the belief that things will be okay. And every one of us must find the strength to embrace all that must be faced in order to take this reality on. (See: Compilation: Psychology of climate crisis denial, inaction, immobilization)
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MORE
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- Article -- Acts of kindness spread surprisingly easily: Just a few people can make a difference, Science Daily
- Book -- The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference, Malcolm Gladwell
- Blog post -- On climate change: Is individual action pointless? Richard Littlemore, desmogblog.com
- Campaigns -- ecoSanity Action Campaigns
- Resources -- Essential Activist Tools: Best Collected Sources
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