Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"
"Where Environment and Peace Meet"
Here's what is on "Indymedia Presents" #247:
Northwest Neighbors For Peace hosted a presentation by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer entitled "Where Peace & Environment Meet," Our friends from www.livingfree.org sent us the video of that presentation, which we edited into something that would fit on our half-hour show. This presentation is startling in two respects:
First, it cites the top NASA climate scientist as saying that we have 10 years to SOLVE global warming, (not ten years to decide whether to do anything) or there will be irreversible changes that will lead to the hottest global temperatures in millions of years, and the die-off of 50% of the species on earth. Heavy stuff from the top guy at NASA, a fellow the Bush administration keeps trying to silence, but who apparently won't shut up. As Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer puts it, the danger is that we won't run out of oil soon enough to save the planet! But he points out that we are "fortunate" to live in the most pivotal moment in human history, that we still have time (well, 10 years), and it IS quite possible to do.
The second set of startling points emerges when he quantifies what it will take to do something about it. He calculates the cost, in dollars, for saving the environment and making every community on earth "livable." Clean water, adaquate food, security, healthcare, family planning, etc etc etc for every community on earth are things which we can put a price tag on. He tells us on this show what the price is, and points out that the combined annual cost for saving the planet and making every community livable is only a fraction of the cost of waging the Iraq war, is less than the tax-cuts for the rich, and way less than the subsidies given to the world's fossil fuel companies each year. Any one of those three things costs more than saving humanity and the planet we call "home."
In some ways, this episode of "Indymedia Presents" puts the 246 previous episodes in context. Well worth watching.
"Where Environment and Peace Meet"
Here's what is on "Indymedia Presents" #247:
Northwest Neighbors For Peace hosted a presentation by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer entitled "Where Peace & Environment Meet," Our friends from www.livingfree.org sent us the video of that presentation, which we edited into something that would fit on our half-hour show. This presentation is startling in two respects:
First, it cites the top NASA climate scientist as saying that we have 10 years to SOLVE global warming, (not ten years to decide whether to do anything) or there will be irreversible changes that will lead to the hottest global temperatures in millions of years, and the die-off of 50% of the species on earth. Heavy stuff from the top guy at NASA, a fellow the Bush administration keeps trying to silence, but who apparently won't shut up. As Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer puts it, the danger is that we won't run out of oil soon enough to save the planet! But he points out that we are "fortunate" to live in the most pivotal moment in human history, that we still have time (well, 10 years), and it IS quite possible to do.
The second set of startling points emerges when he quantifies what it will take to do something about it. He calculates the cost, in dollars, for saving the environment and making every community on earth "livable." Clean water, adaquate food, security, healthcare, family planning, etc etc etc for every community on earth are things which we can put a price tag on. He tells us on this show what the price is, and points out that the combined annual cost for saving the planet and making every community livable is only a fraction of the cost of waging the Iraq war, is less than the tax-cuts for the rich, and way less than the subsidies given to the world's fossil fuel companies each year. Any one of those three things costs more than saving humanity and the planet we call "home."
In some ways, this episode of "Indymedia Presents" puts the 246 previous episodes in context. Well worth watching.