have you seen "an inconvenient truth"? click on the header to go the web page. if you haven't seen it, buy the dvd - or borrow it - but see it. if you have seen it, watch it again with friends. when you've done that, watch the credits at the end carefully - and do the things it suggests. i am convinced that climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world and that as a buddhist i must act in whatever ways i can, however small. in the movie, al gore says (and i think he is right with this - that people go straight from "denial to despair". we think there's so much to do that we can't do it all so we migfht as well do nothing. as mother teresa said: " people say my work is a drop in the ocean and i reply that the ocean is made of drops". on the topic of going from denial to despair he says we don't know how to be in the middle ground. i think joanna macy's "work that reconnects" can help with that. See link below to her web page for an idea of the work.
and band together with others who want to make changes.
on the web page there are things we can do. click the link for 10 things. then, let's do them.
the picture is scotland btw, i just like it!
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About going from denial to despair: Yes I see these reactions of course around me. But .... some weeks ago I saw a programme on the dutch telvision about what to do with the see level rising. It was a dicussionprogramme between experts. One man was so possitive. He showed us a plan already made for the dutch coast. It was worked out in details. Technical, economical, ecological. And in all area's the results were possitive.
His statement was: We have always been threatened by the see. We need to see the things comming to us as a challange. Not as a thread. Technically and financial we can face the climateproblems. What we need is a possitive attitude and with that the politicians will follow because people will vote positive messages, not desperate ones.
And we need to start now!!! At this very day!
Dayapadma.
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