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The primary focus in green programs is on correcting the physical contributors to global heating (warming is now an unacceptable euphemism!), pollution and squandering of resources. The prevalent planning addresses better resource management and reducing carbon outputs. The human factors that lie behind these problems are often not addressed directly. This is like dealing with road safety by focusing only on the mechanics of automobile design, highway construction and driving regulations, while ignoring ‘the nut behind the wheel’ and failing to invest in driver training and safety awareness. And time is running out. [continue]

As reality becomes harder to deny, I'm hearing an increasing number of cries, growing in intensity and tinged with urgency welling up from the grassroots regarding Peak Oil, catastrophic climate destabilization, biospheric toxicity, rapidly dwindling quality of life, increasing wealth gap in the Global North, and increasing poverty in the Global South: "What can we do?" However, all the proposed solutions from the mainstream simply involve putting band-aids on the symptoms of industrialism and empire. [continue]