Blog Action Day: Save The Planet

I interrupt the usually unbroken stream of tech here to acknowledge Blog Action Day, and to present a few posts on the environment from my /Ambivalence blog, where I post about art, culture, and life:

Al Gore: Head Of The Gaia Government-In-Exile

Jamais Cascio on Solving the Climate Crisis

easyJet.com: Carbon Offset

George Soros

I also want to offer Stanley Kubrick’s observation — “If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.” — as a cautionary note about Al Gore’s Peace Prize. Just because he suggests that we might just barely be able to avert disaster if everything swings together starting sometime last week, and so so in a carefully cadenced baritone, we can’t afford complacency.

Turngin around global warming is the defining challenge of our time. Everything else is secondary. We should be in the streets, demanding that our government put aside the politics-as-usual, line item veto, who said what back when we invaded Iraq nonsense, and get down to governance. Or we will lose.