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Critical News for Humans on Evolution

All Hail Bacteria!

(Berkeley, March 20, 2018 ) — On Sunday, I came to more fully understand one of the most important ideas about life on our planet thanks to a new movie called Symbiotic Earth, directed by John Feldman. This in-depth, ten-part journey into the science of our ecosystem brings humanity’s choice into sharp focus: We can learn how to live more like bacteria does — symbiotically creating an environment in which we can thrive — or we keep putrefying our global petri dish and eventually perish.

Screen Shot 2018-03-19 at 2.17.19 PM Symbiotic Earth is about the revolutionary breakthroughs in understanding made by late American scientist Lyn Margulis.

“Our view of man apart from nature, man exploiting nature, has got to change. This is the basis of the environmental crisis. People are ruining their environments.” Looking into a microscope, she continued, “These bacteria are producing an environment that is livable. We have a lot to learn from them.”

So it’s survival not of the fittest, but of the most convivial? The most cooperative? The most biologically compatible? If we look to bacteria for clues, survival is not something to be fought for but a community to be created. And apparently all we have to do is learn how to be like bacteria. Margulis made instant and profound sense to me. At the ocean, she picked up a foamy sponge of bacterial slime. Explaining that it is both essential to life and found everywhere, she called it “a planetary petticoat, the underwear of the earth.”

Some of her revelations were scandalous — not because she talked about undies but because the neo Darwinian guys (just about everybody) didn’t like hearing that evolution and survival wasn’t all about DNA. To them, a symbiotic cellular process in conjunction with its environment sounded way too scary, especially if a woman was talking about it. But Margulis soldiered on, one more reason to love her and this movie. She was a threat to the neanderthals who to this day seek to justify perpetual warring by pointing to perpetual scarcity of resources. Screen Shot 2018-03-19 at 2.15.47 PM

I sat in front, and after the screening, was thrilled to listen to Fritjov Capra and director John Feldman for the Q & A session. Capra is still as smart and charming as ever, and he made the point that this movie could help create a whole new world view — based on our mutual understanding of how inextricably we are connected to our environment, and how important it is for everyone to get this — on a cellular level.

I asked Capra what could be done to bridge the gap between what science knows and the public understands, especially in the red states. He had some good advice: “People need to come together and create islands of sanity,” he said. “Make it a regular thing to get together with your community and connect with one another, talk about what is happening in this crazy world, and share a little bacteria with each other while you are about it.”

In my book The Girl from Spaceship Earth, Bucky says, “It is upon the integrity of the individual that humanity’s future rests.” Only now do I realize this is not just a philosophical thing, but a biological one.

Screen Shot 2018-03-19 at 2.14.15 PM This movie cracked my mind open more than anything since Bucky’s lectures of thirty-six years ago. It gave me hope that we humans might pass our final exam after all, and just as importantly, that more brilliant but disregarded women will finally get the recognition they deserve and a rightful place in history.

Just one note, the ten-part movie may be too long for many people to digest at one sitting, so viewers should plan to pace themselves. If the film were edited into a manageable length, Symbiotic Earth could become a commercially viable film, which would be a great thing for the planet. I hope this happens, that Lyn Margulis becomes a household name, and that every living human being comes to understand just how connected we are to the world that creates us every minute of every day, and that it all happens in time to turn things around for our species.

#SymbioticEarth #BacteriaRules #LynMargulis #HumanityChoice

From Weaponry to Livingry: Are We There Yet?

On Buckminster Fuller’s last day on Spaceship Earth — July 1, 1983 — he left a neatly arranged manuscript on his desk with a note attached saying it was important. The fourteen-page typewritten document, entitled Proposal for a Livingry Services Industry, was Bucky’s never published strategic plan for converting much of the world’s military (or killingry, as he called it) into enterprises of livingry, or activities devoted to improving the quality of life for all human beings, without ecological harm.

The previous year, Bucky had explained to me that this shift in thinking and focus would be pivotal to humanity’s successful final examination— that we were undergoing a test as to whether or not humans were a worthy experiment of nature, and that so far it was not looking so good. Basically, he said that our choice, as I understood it then and now, is this: We can come together to help unite Spaceship Earth toward common purposes that are designed to save us rather than to kill us— or we are toast.

Bucky asked us to embrace a simple overriding objective: “To make the world work for 100% of people, through spontaneous cooperation, as quickly as possible, without ecological harm or to the disadvantage of anyone.”

The Livingry Services Industry proposal linked above was written for a conference at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he had also been commissioned to build a massive floating city in Tokyo Harbor. In it Bucky puts forth an “alternative to politics and its ever more wasteful warring, and inherently vain attempts to solve one-sidedly all humanity’s basic economic and social problems.”

His rationale is anchored in simple common sense: “War has taught man that it is all right to use our scarce resources to dominate and kill people. We must now make the decision to reallocate those resources, to help people live better. If we only prepare for war, that’s what we will know. We must also prepare for peace, by converting some of our weaponry to ‘livingry’.”

The days (about thirty-five years ago now) when peace was publicly discussed as an actual plausibility now seem far behind us, but maybe they are also just ahead. The new student-led movement on gun control is a breath of fresh and hopeful air, and since today’s leaders are acting like children and our children are acting like leaders, maybe it’s a sign change is coming.

For more Bucky thinking about how we can all help shift us toward a better future, check out my recently released book, The Girl from Spaceship Earth. It’s the true story about the lost wisdom of the iconic American genius Steve Jobs called the Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century … who worked fifty years in advance, about fifty years ago … who called for clean energy and sustainability long before either were fashionable … and of whom nine out of ten students at Stanford University have never heard of, despite their school being home to his archives. The “why” of it all with blow your mind, and inspire you into action. History may not actually repeat but, as Mark Twain said, it certainly does rhyme.

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President Trump Declares War on Future

Today, January 23, 2018, a new war was launched against humanity.

Of all the unimaginable things America’s new president has said and done, today Donald Trump has randomly and capriciously declared a new tax on solar panels, attacking the very green energy revolution that could save us. Here’s the link from Time Magazine

Screen Shot 2015-12-01 at 11.43.24 AM If through this and other acts of obstruction, Trump succeeds at slowing down the transition to clean energy, he will be directly endangering the futures of our children and grandchildren. Surely it is time to say enough.

Time is running out. Last night I attended the Long Now Foundation’s talk and heard yet another brilliant scientist explain how humanity’s tenure was reaching the edge of its petri dish. How without dramatic action, now, to curb carbon emissions in our atmosphere and oceans, that we are on our way to becoming toast. They spoke about how we could possibly still green up the planet and engineer the wizardry that could save us, but agreed that none of this can happen if regressive fascists remain in charge of our resources.

Charles C. Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World, spoke at the SF Jazz Center for Stewart Brand’s Long Now Foundation about differing viewpoints on how to save us.

Screen Shot 2018-01-23 at 11.00.27 AM Mann says the prophets, like Bill McKibben and E.O. Wilson, believe that nature holds the answers and the reigns and that we must realign ourselves with nature’s design principles if we hope to be kept hanging around. Prophets say we should green up the planet, return our hearts and souls to nature, understanding that she always bats last.

The wizards say technology, not nature, is the solution. They think we should geo-engineer the skies, the oceans, and lands to generate and control the resources we need. We’ll improve on nature, they say. GMOs, nitrogen fertilizers, technologies to block the sun by launching particulate matter into the sky; these are the ways to save us from climate catastrophe.

As much as they disagree on how both groups agree there is no time to waste.

Whether prophet or wizard, virtually every qualified scientist who is not being paid to say otherwise believes that we must do something now, or that it will likely be too late.

Screen Shot 2015-01-23 at 2.50.33 PM Start by sharing this post with your social media groups. Then speak out every chance you get. Watch for opportunities to show up and be counted. At least you’ll be able to tell your children and grandchildren that you did something. You did not just sit back and watch while an odd orange-haired man dismantled everything you cared about— including their future.

#ClimateActionNow #NoFossilFools #CleanEnergy #LeaveItInTheGround

History Doesn’t Repeat but it Rhymes

We have been here before. A progressive president named Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House and boldly called for a transition to clean energy. The result was a full court press by the right to elect Ronald Reagan and thirty seven years of continued enslavement by fossil fuels.

As Mark Twain said, “History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Understanding history will help us to not repeat it. Never have Bucky’s social philosophies and political ideas been so profoundly relevant. He predicted much of what is happening now, and if he continues to screen-shot-2016-11-22-at-10-33-14-am be right, America is on its way to failure. But, as he said, this is not necessarily a bad thing. As a matter of fact, America’s breakup may be essential to the future of Spaceship Earth.

“America is finding it difficult to integrate with the rest of the planet,” Bucky said. “Our extreme nationalism could be our undoing.” He predicted we would break up into a series of nation states, and suggested that California merge with Mexico, Alaska, Oregon and Washington to create a new Pacific Crescent from which to lead the world effectively.

screen-shot-2016-11-28-at-8-59-09-am He also knew the fossil fuel industry would grasp desperately onto its last profits with dying fingers, since corporations are not wired for either compassion or altruism, as our culture must become if we are to survive. Greed is built into the present system. The fossil fuel industry has been working to obstruct clean energy development for several decades, since they could not find a way to put a meter on the sun. He said this in 1982. They’ve been doing it ever since, and are still doing it, because we, the people, are still letting them. But scientists say we are running out of time.

But technology would prevail in the end, he said, and a transition to 1oo% clean energy would happen. The big question is whether it would happen quickly enough to successfully secure the balance and health of our ecosystem. Time is of the essence. It is essential, he said, that humans realign with nature, and work within nature’s design principles to prove ourselves worthy of continuance.

Bucky ALSO predicted THAT women would take over the leadership of Spaceship Earth, another necessity, because only women, he said, are hardwired for compassion. Only women are continuous, he said, and have the sense of cooperation and community to bring the world together. Men, he said, should give up the specious notion that they are superior to women. Man evolved as a hunter. He dropped the animal at woman’s feet, and she figured out what to do with it. She is the natural born manager.

And most profoundly relevant for today in America was Buckminster Fuller’s simple statement about the need to create something new: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

The more you read what Bucky had to say about the future back in the 20th Century, the more you’ll understand about what’s happening and why.

Bucky’s parting thought for today: “If the future of the world depended on you, how would you be, and what would you do? Because it does.”

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WOMEN RUN SPACESHIP EARTH…… (now what?)

Spaceship Earth, January 22, 2017 –As of yesterday, women are running the world. We just don’t know it yet. On that day, the day after a super giant mistake was inaugurated, women from all over the planet came together, found a unified voice, and scared the crap out of the power elite. Yes, it turns out that Donald Trump was the best organizer we could have ever hoped for.

We have taken the ball, as the boys would say. Now what are we going to do with it?

Firstly, a world led by women, as Buckminster Fuller wrote in this kick ass 1968 article you must read, would refuse to accept the notion of scarcity. We know that our abundantly advanced technology and knowledge has brought us to the point where it need not be “us versus them” but instead can focus on everyone, and work toward an objective of quality of life for all, without harm to the environment.

Women, and people who think like women, are hard wired for compassion. Bucky called on these true leaders to bring their compassion, cooperative spirit and sense of community to the forefront. It is time for loving, smart and compassionate women everywhere to step forward and help create a better breed of leadership than we have now. Be brave. The bar is low.

We must agree on an objective. Here’s one that Bucky’s suggested:

“To make the world work for 100% of humanity in as short a time as possible, through spontaneous cooperation, without disadvantage to anyone, or environmental harm.”

Then come the two biggies:

1) REGARDING WAR. “Either war is obsolete or man is.” It has become a bad habit for America, but war is no longer a sustainable activity. There must be an agreement that peace is not only not a pejorative, but actually is the only sustainable objective, and we must demand it be adopted. Peace please.

2) REGARDING OIL. “Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is humanity’s most critical test.” This is not just to get greenhouse gasses under control, but to create a healthier planet for everyone. Two thirds of what remains in the ground must stay there. This is nature’s energy savings account, to be preserved for future emergencies.

The FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY and its godfather, the military industrial complex, do not like either of these ideas, not one bit. They do not like our green eggs, which is why it is going to be a difficult fight. The success of solar is the wall for oil but they aren’t going down easily. They are desperate to distract us with all their insane “dead cat” strategies, trying to pit us against one another. And it is also why they have put Mr. Trumpty Dumpty up on the wall. He is their puppet. He does not matter. We must go directly to the source, to the industry executives of all climate change denying corporations, as well as all elected representatives at the local, state and federal level who accept their dirty money, and let them know their reign of planetary destruction is over. Fossil fuel subsidies must end immediately and those monies invested in clean energy and reforestation.

WE MUST FORCE THIS ISSUE NOW. Scientists say we are up against the clock. We must demand something akin to a GREEN NEW DEAL which invests heavily in clean energy development and in re-greening the planet, both of which will create new jobs and being about healthier communities.

One we are tapping the sun and wind and waves, we can achieve true freedom as a species, since we will no longer have to labor for our daily share of energy. This means we can all realize greater leisure time and healthier longevity, which only the elites now enjoy.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Start by reading Bucky’s article from 1968 to get inspired. Then, as Bucky put it, the thing to do is whatever nobody else is doing that needs to be done. So look around you, see what needs to be done to advance the above causes and other worthwhile ones, and then do it. And live out loud. Speak up.

“To make the world work for 100% of humanity in as short a time as possible, through spontaneous cooperation, without disadvantage to anyone, or environmental harm.”

It’s a woman’s job. Someone has to do it.

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Floating Cities: Are We There Yet?

Buckminster Fuller said he worked 50 years in advance. It was about that many years ago that he came up with his plan for a floating city named Triton.

Today, with rising oceans, rising housing costs, and increasing homelessness – not to mention the desire for a sustainable, satisfying life — surely the time has come to take another look at Bucky’s floating city idea.

Bucky’s Triton City was co-created with a Japanese businessman, who shared Bucky’s concern about the importance of housing people in a way that gave them “a standard of living that really meant something.” The project took months of study. Bucky approached it scientifically. How to make maximum use of resources, and create a city that would be a joy to live in and also be able to sustain itself? screen-shot-2016-12-09-at-2-53-08-pm

The plan was that Triton would float like a ship on the waters of Tokyo Bay. Although it might be connected to land by bridges, the floating city would be completely independent, providing all its own services, wasting nothing, recycling everything. It would be shaped in a tetrahedron (of course!) to provide the greatest possible surface area for the space enclosed. screen-shot-2016-12-09-at-2-52-23-pm The sloped outside surfaces would make private terraced gardens possible for all occupants since this was a critical life enjoyment factor for most people. Shopping and common purpose areas would be located on the inside. Recreation, such as tennis and athletic fields, would be on the top deck.

When Bucky’s Japanese partner died in the mid-1960s, the US government asked him to complete the full design, but then the 1968 elections brought in Nixon, and new officials scrapped the “pie-in-the-sky ecotopia” plans. Some things never change. screen-shot-2016-12-09-at-2-51-56-pm

It is such a shame we have suffered another election set back, and the future is being put on hold once again. But there is hope because although Bucky’s project died, the idea has lived on in many, many ways.

Suddenly floating cities make a whole new world of sense.

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Showdown at Standing Rock

This multi-layered humanitarian and environmental crisis is intensifying this week as revelations of terroristic crimes against the water protectors and protestors become more common.

Just as hundreds of U.S. war veterans, Hollywood celebrities, community leaders and others from all over America continue to arrive in North Dakota to stand with the indigenous people of Standing Rock, the Army Corp of Engineers has announced the deadline for everyone to leave the site is December 5. This multi-layered humanitarian and environmental crisis intensifies this week, as revelations of terroristic crimes against the water protectors and protestors become more common.

To the indigenous people, Standing Rock is about basic human rights to clean water, and about the United States’ living up to its treaties to protect sacred lands. Hear out their heartfelt concerns in this poignant two-minute mini documentary.

The pipeline, which crosses four states, would transport up to 570,000 barrels of fracked crude oil daily, 92 feet below the Missouri River. Demonstrators opposed to this plan have been pepper-sprayed, shot at with rubber bullets and faced arrest. Local law enforcement say among the thousands of activists opposed to the pipeline are criminals who trespass and vandalize private property.

Environmental activists the world over say the pipeline would contribute to man-made climate change by building up America’s country’s oil infrastructure. They (we) say that fossil fuels—including the vast reserves in the Bakken Shale—need to be kept in the ground to protect the world from the worst effects of climate change. Proponents of the pipeline argue that oil producers would likely ship the oil by rail line if construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline was halted, as much of the oil produced in North Dakota already is—an argument that was also used in favor of the now canceled Keystone XL pipeline.

screen-shot-2016-11-28-at-8-59-33-am President Barack Obama and the erratic president elect are so far silent on the issue, but pressure is intensifying for them to do or say something. Senator Bernie Sanders has been outspokenly supportive of the indigenous people and their rights to clean water. Here’s a report on the planned visit to Standing Rock by American war veterans. Another recent development is that Collective Evolution and others are reporting that chemical agents are being sprayed on the water protectors and protesters at night, as they sleep, just as vulnerably as is humanly possible, in outdoor tents. What is this country coming to, when our government sides with giant polluters against our own people?

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Thanksgiving Silver Linings

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful to live in country that still allows me to post the hard cold truth about the decades of despicable crimes committed against humanity by the rogue fossil fuel industry. It is now understood that they knowingly put their profits before the health and future of all humanity, and are still doing it. At least now we know the evil with which we are dealing. Another silver lining.

In case you wonder just how long they have known and understood what is going on, here’s an excerpt from Bucky’s 1981 book, Critical Path:

“Those who own oil also own the atomic energy and have long ago assumed that, if humanity exhausts or abandons oil, it will automatically switch over to atomic energy. Humanity has had nothing to say about all this because the know-how was so obscure and the lawyers’ strategems so invisibly large. The lawyers’ omnilegal international strategems were and as yet are so obscure, in fact, that no government authorities – let alone the public – knew that the world energy monopoly’s scientists had not taken into account earthquakes, for instance, in the construction of New England atomic energy plants, nor had the public or government anticipated that the intuitive wisdom of humanity would develop such an antipathy to atomic energy as eventually to force lawyer capitalism to fall back on its ‘ownable’ coal mines and shale for conversion into pipable and meterable liquid fuels. It is as yet inscrutable to the public, government, and lawyer capitalism just how strong literate humanity’s intuitive wisdom will be in preventing the full-scale conversion of coal and shale into liquid energy fuel when it learns, as it has now been learned in a scientifically undeniable way, that this selfishly exploitable energy fuel strategy will inexorably destroy the atmosphere’s capability of supporting biological life on planet Earth. Like all fossil fuels coal gives off carbon dioxide when burned, but coal gives off 25 percent more of it per unit of energy than oil and 50 percent more than natural gas. Although carbon dioxide comprises less than 1 percent of the Earth’s atmospheric gases, this concentration has risen 17 percent since preindustrial times and is expected to rise an equivalent amount in the next twenty years. The ‘greenhouse’ effect from the Sun’s heat and increasing amounts of this otherwise harmless gas could send average global temperatures soaring by as much as 6 degrees Farenheit within fifty years according to a U.S. government study. This unprecedented global environmental catastophe would be virtually irreversible for centuries.

“No one knows whether the cessation of the waste radiation of atomic energy exploitation or the cessation of coal and shale conversion into fluid fuel will occur in time to permit the physical continuance of humans on planet Earth. What we do know however, as we have previously stated, is (1) that, with the unselfish use of technology, it is now possible to screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-12-32-26-pm take care of all humanity at a higher standard of living than any have ever experienced and do so on a sustaining basis by employing only our daily energy income from Sun and gravity and (2) that we can do so in time to permit the healthy continuance of humans on plant Earth.”

Bucky’s number two above is no longer a sure thing. What happens in the next couple of years, at this pivotal time, at places like Standing Rock, North Dakota, could determine the outcome. We might still have a chance to wrestle this rogue industry to the ground, and transfer to clean energy in time — one more silver lining.

screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-10-14-22-am Today’s Americans need to know that we have been traveling on this road for a long time. If they do, then maybe won’t get fooled again.

My guess is this is one issue people are ready to come together around, even at the Thanksgiving Day dinner table.

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Standing Rock is Birthing a Revolution

A report from Standing Rock, North Dakota, on November 14, 2016, the eve of a National Call to Action for solidarity with indigenous peoples everywhere, to demand justice, the honoring of treaties, and protection of basic human rights to clean water, land and air. A report from my daughter, Alyssa Ravasio.

“We are doing great. At nearby casino right now withdrawing the funds Michaela raised to buy hay for some horses …

screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-12-31-57-pm It’s very safe here, lots of babies and children. Nothing to worry about at all. Some people decide to go out on “actions” where they’ll protest construction but that is away from camp. Camp is peaceful, soulful, prayerful. The scale is hard to explain… Thousands of people, so organized and respectful, no drugs or alcohol, mostly female leadership, abundance of food and resources for all. We feel very fortunate to be here. This is a very important moment in history. The first time the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota nations have gathered the seven councils since 1800’s. The largest known gathering of indigenous nations, ever. Arguably the largest cohesive social and environmental justice movement of our time.

This is our generations “I have a dream” moment, and we’re here. It’s surreal. Hopefully one of many many more.”

The meaning of this stance is deep. It’s a stand against white supremacy, colonization, oppression. It’s a stand for human rights and respect for all “two leggeds.” Including the pipeline construction workers. We are often reminded to have compassion for them, to pray for them, even as they desecrate sacred sites.

This is all happening on public land, army corp of engineers land that is considered “treaty” land – originally territory of the tribe, unfairly seized in 1800’s.

screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-12-32-12-pm One amazing thing I’ve learned is that the Army Corp has told DAPL to stop construction. They are refusing, speeding up instead. And yet despite breaking federal mandate, somehow the national guard is here protecting the corporation in continuing illegal construction. That’s a mind blow.” — Alyssa

Alyssa Ravasio is founder and CEO of Hipcamp, an online camping and land share company with a mission of getting more people outdoors. Tomorrow she flies to Washington DC, where she has been invited to the White House to meet with a council assigned to encourage children to spend more time outdoors. The very idea that the Obama White House is still working on such noble and beautifully proactive projects seems such a painful irony this week.

On the phone, Alyssa said it felt surreal to her that on Thursday she would walk into the White House at such an uneasy and transitional time for both America and the planet.

“Something’s happening here,” she said. The hair on my arms raised. Was Alyssa quoting from the Buffalo Springfield song or was history actually repeating itself? screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-12-25-30-pm Either way, it feels big. If Standing Rock is this generation’s pivotal moment, let’s hope it has more meaning and more lasting impact than the last (so-called) revolution from the 1970’s. See photo at right of the first Earth Day in 1970. Still the largest environmental protest ever on Earth.

Alyssa urged me to go to one of the many solidarity marches throughout the world tomorrow. Tomorrow is our chance to show all world governments we actually do give a damn about each other and the planet. And to demand action on peace, justice, and climate. So much is coming together tomorrow, November 15, 2016.

Godspeed to all the good people working to protect our people and our natural world.

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Obama throws climate under bus…….Send e-mail now.

Time to send another e-mail to Mr. Obama, who has failed the climate and its people once again. Some 20 million offshore acres, many in deepwater, have been auctioned off to the oil industry. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held an oil and gas lease sale this morning selling off most of the 20 million offshore acres available in the Western Gulf of Mexico. That’s every last available parcel.

And that’s not all. President Obama also just signed a bill that excludes all U.S. airlines from modest, reasonable European carbon emissions fees. Here’s the full story from The Hill. It would have amounted to a few bucks per international plane ticket. But the U.S. airlines industry threw a typical hissy fit, and congress whipped together a “ban” on such tariffs. Obama signed the law on Tuesday.

This was President Obama’s first test of his second term. He has failed, proving that Americans and their president are all talk and no action on climate change.

And yes, this the same president who said that Americans are “threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”

Now, this morning, Obama wants Americans to tweet that they want their “#my2k” in tax cuts. Tweet this to Obama:

“What good is #my2k to people on a dying planet?”

While you’re at it, send him an email, demanding he stop coddling the corporate toddlers who are ruining the planet. Tell him to end fossil fuel subsidies now. To face our global climate failure now. To live up to his promises, to deal with this issue.

Strap in for a rocky ride on United Spaceship Planet Earth. I can feel poor Bucky spinning in his grave right now.

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“We are doing great. At nearby casino right now withdrawing the funds Michaela raised to buy hay for some horses …

This is our generations “I have a dream” moment, and we’re here. It’s surreal. Hopefully one of many many more.”

This is all happening on public land, army corp of engineers land that is considered “treaty” land – originally territory of the tribe, unfairly seized in 1800’s.

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