[Peace] The best speech no one wants to hear

[Karen Aram]

I have on more than one occasion recommended his book: Common Sense for the 21st. Century,” which explains why after 30 some years, organizations have all failed, in spite of everything they have done. People don’t listen to the data or facts that you think need to be included in every speech. 

The hard physics isn’t always necessary for everyone, I highly recommend this link with two recent interviews, the one on Hardtalk is quite good.https://www.rogerhallam.com/

> On Oct 29, 2020, at 14:08, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> I’m much more sympathetic to the end of his talk than to the beginning (I did not listen to the end when I responded). Revolution is the answer, he pleads to his discouragingly meagre audience. 
> Get up and do something, act! Only you ordinary people can do what is needed, he says.
> Indeed, he is right that a mass movement is necessary to to confront climate change. But I’m afraid Hallam is whistling in the dark. Exagerating the imminent danger without laying the evidence lessens his impact; the future—how many decades before catastrophe, the several billions! dead— remains uncertain. But yes, ultimately, whatever that means, that may come to pass. 
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>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 7:46 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Thats his point Mort., whether millions or billions, or mere thousands or even hundreds starving to death due to climate change, does it matter exactly how many are predicted to die so horribly due to the world doing nothing? 
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>> Roger Hallam as the co founder of “Extinction Rebellion,” is not one just using “words,” he has been very active implementing the most and unfortunately last ditch efforts to have the world wake up to the catastrophe facing us, that is “civil resistance.” He has been arrested, gone to jail, and suffered the many repercussions of political activism, that is being criticized for not saying or doing what we like or what we want to hear. 
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>>> On Oct 28, 2020, at 17:51, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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>>> He talks about words, but he uses them without giving any evidence for what he is saying. It is simply a rant. 
>>> This is not to say that climate change is not an existential problem for so many, and the world has not responded as it should, but he throws out the “billions/words“ numbers and words without reasoning.
>>> Yes, and he’s too free with vulgarity; it doesn’t strengthen his argument.
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>>> —mkb
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>>>> On Oct 28, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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