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Stop reading for a moment. Close your
eyes and notice how are you feeling right now. Are any of these
thoughts going through your mind?
 Global Warning is not
real. This is just another tree-hugging hippie trying to scare
us into giving him money.
It's too scary. I don't want to
think about it.
It's OK, The Rapture is coming soon,
and God will take care of me.
The Government will take care of
this.
There's plenty of time. We'll
deal with this later.
It's impossible to stop Global Warming.
It's inevitable. There's nothing I can do about this, so I'll
just go about my business as usual.
Here's a quirky thing about
human nature -- most humans tend to ignore warning signs
until the time to act has long past. The only difference between
the signs of Global Warming and other past warning signs is
that ignoring this truth will be devastating, disastrous, and deadly
for billion of people -- that's billions, not millions.
Let me guide you on an imaginary
journey. The date is April 14, 1912 . You and I are passengers
on the Titanic. The unsinkable ship is on it's maiden voyage
from Liverpool, England to New York, U.S.A.
As the daylight fades into night
you notice that the ship is still traveling at full speed ahead.
It did the same thing last night too, but something is different and you
can't figure out why this evening you feel so strange. You go to the bow
of the ship and notice men shining spotlights into the open water
ahead. The lights shine for only a short distance into the
blackness ahead. Simple logic tells you that the ship is
so big that significantly altering its course or stopping its movement takes
miles. If an iceberg appeared ahead in the ships path,
hitting it would be unavoidable.
You attempt to go to the ship's
control room, but are turned away. You ask the guard, "Why are we
traveling blind, full speed ahead, at night, in iceberg infested
waters? The answer you get is that the captain wants to get to
New York in record time.
More than a bit concerned you return and
tell me what's going on and how you are feeling. We talk for a moment and then you go back to
toward the bow and stare into the tiny patch of light in the ocean of
blackness ahead. As you stand there, leaning against the
railing, staring at nothing, you suddenly you notice a woman
standing beside you. Your body startles in it's surprise.
You turn to her and ask, "Where did you come from.?"
She ignores the question and says, "If the ship continues as it's
now traveling it will hit an iceberg so hard that the damage will cause the
ship to sink. You and most of the others on board will be dead
by sunrise. If you ever want to see your children again, you
must slow the ship down."
You look out again into
the patch of light, and then you turn back to her, but she's no longer
there. She has vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
With trembling hands, you grasp the cold railing and think about what you
have just heard. Where is the woman? Was she
real? Am I crazy? They told us that this ship was
unsinkable. This can't be real! But what if it is.
What do I do now?
Let me give you the same set of
conditions in a different context:
You stepped onto
spaceship Earth a few years ago with the intention of having a safe journey
through life. Then out of nowhere, some stranger tells you that the
spaceship you are on is about to crash into an iceberg of
ignorance and apathy. He tells you this story:
On a global level, you are all riding a cosmic
version of the Titanic. Symbolically speaking, you are traveling at
full speed, in the dark, in iceberg-filled waters, with the captain and all
the officers asleep in their cozy little cabins of illusion. And
what have they inspired the rest of us to do while they sleep? Spend our
time and energy fighting over the deck chairs. Why do we
go along their instructions and fight
instead of cooperate? Because, like most humans who live their lives as
mindless sheep, we simply following someone else's instructions. It's
also the accepted, cultural norm. We were trained to fight by people who believed that fighting was more
productive than cooperating.
The so-called leaders also implanted this type
of message in your mind. If you're not into fighting personally,
you can listen to the news about the latest war or disaster, or accident, or
murder, and the like. Or you can divert you attention by watching
sports like baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and hockey.
Or listen to the latest gossip about what this or that celebrity did or
didn't do.
Then he tells you that if humans
continue full speed ahead in the callous, mindless destruction of the Earth's life support system,
you, your fellow passengers, and all your descendents will all be dead by the end of this
century. For humans in the future, in there are any, life as
humans know it today will cease to exist.
What are you going to do
today -- right here -- right now?
Denial is
no longer an option.
Survival dictates that we
think and act "outside-the-box" of conventional behavior.
We cannot solve our collective, social problems with either "More of the Same" or "The Same Thing Harder." A new, mutually cooperative approaches to our collective
social
problems is required, and the sooner we wake up to this, the less
painful the transition will be.
What are you going to do
today -- right here -- right now?
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Changing the Way Money Rules
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http://www.New-Corporate-World.info '
You'll see:
How to Create The New Corporate World.
How to Get Corporations Off Their Addiction to
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How to Peacefully Re-distribute the Wealth.
How YOU can play a
significant role in Reversing Global Warming.
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