Tweets and Takes on the Paris Climate Agreement
My two initial thoughts:
Thought: ok/good to ratify weak starting point that can ratchet up every few years. Thought: governments are selfish and cynical, at least partially corrupt often, amazing they could get something better than lipstick on a pig.
Years from now, our grandchildren will reflect on humanity’s moral courage to solve the climate crisis and they will look to December 12, 2015, as the day when the community of nations finally made the decision to act. -- Al Gore
BREAKING: Historic
#ParisAgreement to lay foundation for 100 percent clean energy, limit warming to 1.5 celsius
environmentamerica.org/news/ame/histo….
#COP21final - good news - formal process established to assess progress & strengthen, beginning in 2018. perhaps most important part? -- Michael Brune, Sierra Club
Our children would not understand us, would not forgive us -- Laurent Fabius
Whatever the outcome from Paris #COP21... it's the beginning of the end of age of fossil fuels
#keepitintheground -- Bhaskar Diol
Friends of the Earth International: US removed liability and compensation and only reduces emissions by 20% "Island Nations will go Extinct"
#COP21... an historic turning point. It does not mean climate justice is here. Not even close. But our progress is irreversible -- Michael Brune, Sierra Club
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.
What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.
Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?
Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.
Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)
Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.
But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)
Still we are finite on this ride.
It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.
For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.
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