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Amy Bright's avatar

Marianne Williamson, you lead us on so many levels! You walk the talk on all of them. Thank you so much for your determination, your conviction and courage, to do the right thing, trusting in Love as Truth, and the role model you set for the rest of us.

Yes, of course we stand with Stephen Donziger! Thank you for sharing his story, which, as you both said, needs to be told!

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Andrew Gaines's avatar

There is a lot in that interview! I will pick up on one point: fossil fuels as ecocide. The continued use of fossil fuels at scale is ecocide, of course. That’s the plain fact. However, I want to comment on the psychological context.

In Australia we just had a ‘climate election’ where new government has a brilliant climate minister, and independence who campaigned on climate also were elected. Nevertheless, one of the first things the new Prime Minister did was to assert that his government would not limit fossil fuel exports (coal and natural gas) because we cannot take the economic hit.

The Biden administration, despite emphasizing renewable energy, seems to have pretty much the same position. And for good reason. Not only would a sudden reduction in fossil fuel use collapse the economy, locally and globally, it would also devastate agriculture and available supply chains.

Of course no government is willing to do this, if for no other reason than they would be immediately voted out of office. And, regretfully, the hope that we can replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and electrification is an illusion. This is because, as Norwegian Geodesic Survey researcher Simon Michaux has shown in detail, we simply don’t (and cannot) have enough of some of the critical materials to make it happen. Some of them only exist in tiny amounts (https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf).

Collectively we need to dramatically reduce consumption in order to reduce industrial production and associated fossil fuel use. There is virtually no public conversation on this issue, and certainly no public planning. One of the jobs of thought leaders is to kickstart the conversation.

Andrew Gaines

Inspiring Transition

andrew.gaines@InspiringTransition.net

www.InspiringTransition.net

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