Blogger Michael Marshall, over at HFAx2 , dares suggest it would have been a disaster for the world's environmental movement, if Elizabeth May's 2015 efforts to concentrate Green Party resources on just 16 winnable seats had worked !
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Civil disobedience, Proportional Representation, Ending Global Warming
Michael Marshall at HFAx2 has made a bold proposal to get the fight against global warming moving : a campaign of civil disobedience to achieve Proportional Representative in the electoral systems of the major Western nations most opposed to acting on climate change !
If the UK, Canada, Australia et al don't get proportional representation and soon, Michael says, the voices of politicians serious about combating climate change will never be heard in those nations' corridors of power.
And then the rest of Humanity will proceed to very quickly directly kill off many species and cook the rest indirectly.
His idea is not original he says.
It was raised back in the UK in the 1980s, but went no where - the campaign for PR wasn't passionate enough then for its advocates to welcome the thought of actually going to jail to promote the cause.
But today, the cause of PR is most critical to those voters all consumed with wanting to see a good number of really green-minded MPs in the world's parliaments.
Some have already gone to jail to oppose clear cuts or pipelines.
Doing the same to move PR forward would be doing something of global not merely local import.
Read his full post here.
If the UK, Canada, Australia et al don't get proportional representation and soon, Michael says, the voices of politicians serious about combating climate change will never be heard in those nations' corridors of power.
And then the rest of Humanity will proceed to very quickly directly kill off many species and cook the rest indirectly.
His idea is not original he says.
It was raised back in the UK in the 1980s, but went no where - the campaign for PR wasn't passionate enough then for its advocates to welcome the thought of actually going to jail to promote the cause.
But today, the cause of PR is most critical to those voters all consumed with wanting to see a good number of really green-minded MPs in the world's parliaments.
Some have already gone to jail to oppose clear cuts or pipelines.
Doing the same to move PR forward would be doing something of global not merely local import.
Read his full post here.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Michael has a new blog @ HFAx2
HFAx2
HFAx2 means 'Help From All : Hope For All' ie HFA : HFA .
Or just HFA x2 , for short.
Michael says the main reason why the tiny microbes survived four billion years of the worst the Cosmos could throw at planet Earth, when the giant dinosaurs faded at the first hurdle, was HGT.
HGT means horizontal gene transfer --- the tiny microbes share their individual genomes with all other microbes world wide --- it is the biggest possible BIG TENT when the microbes need fast clever totally new solutions to totally new global disasters.
Its why we see bacterial resistance around the world after only a handful of years after a new antibiotic is introduced.
Michael says the whole open source open access PD copyleft etc movement is the human equivalent to HGT and our best hope for survival in the looming ecological disaster.
We can't rely on the 1% ---- they got us into this mess !
The other 99% has the answers, if only we don't let Harper and his gang of WASP supremacists bare them at the gates because they aren't his kind of people.
No they are not --- his kind of people are monsters....
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