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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime for a Mass Upheaval Against the Perpetrators of Global Destruction
http://www.alternet.org/environment/time-mass-upheaval-against-perpetrators-global-destructionA week after the most powerful super typhoon ever recorded pummeled the Philippines, killing thousands in a single province, and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a devastating airpocalypse, suffocating the city with coal-plant pollution, government leaders beware! Although individual events like these cannot be attributed with absolute certainty to increased fossil fuel use and climate change, they are the type of disasters that, scientists tell us, will become a pervasive part of life on a planet being transformed by the massive consumption of carbon-based fuels. If, as is now the case, governments across the planet back an extension of the carbon age and ever increasing reliance on unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands and shale gas, we should all expect trouble. In fact, we should expect mass upheavals leading to a green energy revolution.
None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment. Take a look and you will see that the assorted environmental protests that have long bedeviled politicians are gaining in strength and support. With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions. Sooner or later, government leaders are likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the end, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being swept aside.
In fact, it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. Because climate change is going to inflict increasingly severe harm on human populations, the impulse to rebel is only likely to gain in strength across the planet. While circumstances may vary, the ultimate goal of these uprisings will be to terminate the reign of fossil fuels while emphasizing investment in and reliance upon renewable forms of energy. And a success in any one location is bound to invite imitation in others.
A wave of serial eruptions of this sort would not be without precedent. In the early years of twentieth-first century, for example, one government after another in disparate parts of the former Soviet Union was swept away in what were called the color revolutions -- populist upheavals against old-style authoritarian regimes. These included the Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004), and the Pink or Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan (2005). In 2011, a similar wave of protests erupted in North Africa, culminating in what we call the Arab Spring.
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Time for a Mass Upheaval Against the Perpetrators of Global Destruction (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2013
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daggahead
(1,296 posts)1. Time for
a worldwide general strike.
But, here in the US, you know that won't happen. We're too afraid of our employers and too addicted to TV.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)2. We're also not very united anymore and more a collection of tribes. And a few
well placed manipulative ads on TV, MSM propaganda and the oligarchy, would quickly dispel any notion of betterment. The drones (as in ants) would follow orders as blared on TV and manipulative information.