A political mash-up video combing McCain, Bush and Obama speeches on energy policy created by the stimulator over at submedia. The video shows all three politicians saying exactly the same positive things about polluting, dangerous and unworkable energy alternatives. Basically all the US presidential candidates have been “drinking the Kool-ad” on nuclear, ethanol and the ridiculous lie of “clean-coal”.
You can also see and remix this video on RemixAmerica.org, a project which invites you to make your own remixes right on their website.
Why the hell talk about coal mining on a Permaculture site? Especially a solutions-oriented blog?
Because you can’t permify land that’s no longer there.
The first step to Permaculture is observation of a site — TAPO or PATO, aka Thoughtful and Protracted Observation. Imagine observing that the water on your new land is unusable because of coal mining pollution from up stream. Imagine getting cancer from the toxic chemical floating through the air that lands on your tomatoes. F all that — Imagine your land ripped away by coal mining companies with politicians in their pocket. Imagine your land exploding, your soil being dumped into the creek.
How’s your Permaculture working now? The answer is “not at all,” because you didn’t join the fight to stop one of the biggest environmental atrocities of our time — Mountain Top Removal.
Rainforest Action Network’s theatrical, viral action (like below) gets the word out. Huge banks do not have to be convinced to stop funding. Just the right people at those banks, and this is a small chip in embarrassing those people. Get your hands dirty — spread the word via your facebooky twittery thingies.
We’ll always use coal because it’s so abundant, therefore we eco compromisers must make coal clean. Right?
Well, if there are only a few decades of coal left and clean coal is several decades away at the earliest, is clean coal even worth attempting? Even worth the spit that should be spewed on it?
Hold that saliva.
Here’s a campy/parody video I did with/for Post Carbon Institute about Richard Heinberg’s new book BLACKOUT, which examines exactly that.
Watch this video, and if facts interest you, buy it. As is true of most books that state what should be obvious, this may be way ahead of its time, like his 2003 book THE PARTY’S OVER, which I read in 2007. It’s what kicked my blissful ignorance out of my comfy bed… the wake-up call that showed me the inevitability of this whole Permaculture jazz.
Word to the skeptical: I don’t get a dime from book sales on this one. Word to the super skeptical: If it sells well with the help of the movie, then yeah, I guess it makes me look fancy and I’ll continue to work. Yippee! But I’d recommend it anyway even if I had nothing to do with it).
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