As some of you may know, today, Oct 15, 2009, is Blog Action Day - a global effort to get the blogsphere to act collectively to highlight a single issue. This year's topic is Climate Change, and as of this writing, 8170 blogs are participating worldwide. Here's a short video about it from the site:
I'm not sure what the views of our host here at the Lay Scientist are about participating in such collective blog action, so I won't inflict my rather lengthy contribution upon readers here. Instead, I invite interested readers to visit my main blog, Reconciliation Ecology, where I have just posted some thoughts on climate change.
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Here’s my post for Blog Action Day:
http://selfdestructivebastards.blogspot.com/2009/10/wake-up-humanity.html
Everyone else go make one too!
I've been looking around at dozens of Climate Action Day blogs and find almost no one is posting anything. So by the end of the day, out of 8000 blogs there should be at least 20 or 30 posts. Where is everybody? Where is the big support for the Copenhagen Climate and Social Control Negotiations? There is no support anymore other than you.
Yay Blog Action day! Big success...Wahoo..
Yeah. I'm more than happy for my guests to participate in collective blog actions...
...but, the trouble is, collective blog actions never work unless they're spontaneous (like Singh vs. BCA). Trying to get bloggers to do something collectively is like herding cats.
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You're right, Martin - herding cats is right, unless it is spontaneous. Nevertheless, well, at least this one cat did get herded... :-)
I've seen a number of blogs already.
There are so many people who claim Global warming to be false, or at least not man-made... fine.
Whether it is actually true or not, there is a lot of evidence that supports it. I think that it is our best interest to error on the side of caution and treat it as though it is a real threat.
If you were given a gun, one person said it has a bullet, the other said it was not loaded.... would you still hold it up to your head and pull the trigger?
Great topic for blogging... climate change is something that affect us all.
Once the deep mystery of “climate change” has been solved
And “What’s green and causes CC?” is no longer a popular riddle,
The legacy of the era most likely will be:
“Never in recorded history have so many made so much over so little”.
(With apologies to the late, great Winston Churchill).
In the grocery store near our house, they will give you an option to purchase their "save the earth" green colored cloth bag and that's where they will place your purchased products. And then every time you buy anything from the store and you bring the "save the earth" bag with you, you get to have discounts. This is their way of sharing their contribution to save the earth from global warming. About three weeks ago, we were hit by two very strong storms. We never had that in decades. They left our country with still so many flooded areas, a lot were homeless and lost so many loved ones. Until now, we are still sweeping the streets from mud and tons of ruined appliances drowned from the flood. The effects of those twin storm were devastating. It's not wet season for us here, but we we were informed that we are still expecting four more storms on this last quarter of the year. And just this morning, local news says, weeks from now, we are expecting a strong earthquake to hit the metro city including the nearby provinces. This is the same Metro city hit by the twin storms. And the news says its all because of global warming/climate change. Im blithely about the issue before, but when the twin storm hit us plus all the bad news, I thought, I must do something too. To solve the global warming problem, it must be stormed at the national and international levels.But the total success is built upon the action of every individual, regardless of nationality, to conserve energy and live in a greener, cleaner community.
Happy BLoG AcTioN DaY! :-)