Every day another environmental disaster, like the pieces breaking off Antarctica, show out how hollow the denials of global warming are. But deny global warming they will, because from tobacco to nuclear waste it has always paid to stonewall and deny. The food, the air, the water are all under attack by the global corporate agenda, no untrampled corner of this small planet will remain soon. The great northern forests that once encircled the top of the planet are almost gone, the African Savannah, the tropical rainforests, the coral reefs are following right along.The Empire feeds on the myth of endless economic growth. This shortsighted approach has the planet's limited resources disappearing faster, and the environment becoming more polluted, every day. The corporations, corrupted governments, bankers, and individuals who are destroying the earth and gobbling up our children's futures are doing so because they are making a lot of money at it.
Meanwhile, in what passes for democracy, who votes for the trees, the bees, the microbes that support life?. Protest seems senseless, when you’re protesting you’re recognizing the authority of the people that you oppose even as you oppose them. Another road is direct action. Direct action can take many forms. One person or group of folks might grow their own of everything, living within the smallest possible ecological footprint. Others might only participate in the counter-culture cash economy, avoiding tax collectors, census takers, and bankers like the plague. Another might undertake economic sabotage against corporations and government agencies profiting from the destruction of the environment. Some might go for the 'hat trick'. Having no hierarchy, no structure of its own makes all forms of direct action dangerous to authority.
Time is running out.
