Comments on: “100 months to save the planet” http://priceofoil.org/2008/07/21/%e2%80%9c100-months-to-save-the-planet%e2%80%9d/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: marilee jenkinson http://priceofoil.org/2008/07/21/%e2%80%9c100-months-to-save-the-planet%e2%80%9d/#comment-531171 marilee jenkinson Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:19:59 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3035#comment-531171 going back to Charles Reich book hopefully not long forgotten - rather part of a history - we girls were talking the other day - and a few quotes i cannot remember well - regarding consciousness 111 - which kinda got taken over i do declare - i wrote them down somewhere - the essence of which - the middle class will not be the one to make the leap - and so who is going to do it - will it be the lower classes - and who would that be nowaday - me - when i decide to get off my high horse - and get the job done - we need a kick in the butt so there is work to be done - so i think when we talk needs not wants - food - sustainable agriculture - renewable resource networks to imagine new ways - i see a bright light out on the horizon - we the people have a job to do - not those guys in their somnambulistic entitlement programs - ie members of congress (not all of them) - some have risen over the heap - ones who do not take oil money for starters - retire the rest come this next election the green deal - will check this closely - thanks for all you do - marilee helen jenkinson going back to Charles Reich book hopefully not long forgotten - rather part of a history - we girls were talking the other day - and a few quotes i cannot remember well - regarding consciousness 111 - which kinda got taken over i do declare - i wrote them down somewhere - the essence of which - the middle class will not be the one to make the leap - and so who is going to do it - will it be the lower classes - and who would that be nowaday - me - when i decide to get off my high horse - and get the job done - we need a kick in the butt

so there is work to be done - so i think when we talk needs not wants - food - sustainable agriculture - renewable resource networks to imagine new ways - i see a bright light out on the horizon - we the people have a job to do - not those guys in their somnambulistic entitlement programs - ie members of congress (not all of them) - some have risen over the heap - ones who do not take oil money for starters - retire the rest come this next election

the green deal - will check this closely - thanks for all you do - marilee helen jenkinson

]]> By: Noah Scales http://priceofoil.org/2008/07/21/%e2%80%9c100-months-to-save-the-planet%e2%80%9d/#comment-529861 Noah Scales Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:12:34 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3035#comment-529861 Changes in the natural world mark the longest time scales that humans experience. Our faster-moving worlds of commerce and governance have increased nature's rate of change to where commerce and governance must respond immediately to keep their current form against nature's influence. The green new deal could create change at the level of commerce and the slower changing level of infrastructure. However, culture is what pushed nature to the tipping points ahead. Culture is what stops people from becoming vegan, starting gardens, scrapping cars, and counting carbons. More changes to commerce than we have time for are required to change culture, because culture changes more slowly than commerce. Investment and job creation will slowly change governance, and culture will respond even more slowly to changes in governance, until suddenly nature begins changing culture by force, and governance, infrastructure, and commerce all change in response. Thanks to global warming, nature now has the power to change infrastructure, governance, and commerce over time scales more typical of changes in fashion. 100 months is a long time to keep the same style clothes and haircut, but nature will forgive our modern culture, until it tries out the new look. Changes in the natural world mark the longest time scales that humans experience. Our faster-moving worlds of commerce and governance have increased nature’s rate of change to where commerce and governance must respond immediately to keep their current form against nature’s influence.

The green new deal could create change at the level of commerce and the slower changing level of infrastructure. However, culture is what pushed nature to the tipping points ahead. Culture is what stops people from becoming vegan, starting gardens, scrapping cars, and counting carbons. More changes to commerce than we have time for are required to change culture, because culture changes more slowly than commerce. Investment and job creation will slowly change governance, and culture will respond even more slowly to changes in governance, until suddenly nature begins changing culture by force, and governance, infrastructure, and commerce all change in response.

Thanks to global warming, nature now has the power to change infrastructure, governance, and commerce over time scales more typical of changes in fashion. 100 months is a long time to keep the same style clothes and haircut, but nature will forgive our modern culture, until it tries out the new look.

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