If I may make my second OP - and its about climate change.

[napoleon_in_rags]

8. Groove with it.

I made some really depressing comments to some denier jokers, shutting them up. Later some one said to me that joking is a way to deal with the weight of the whole thing, and that they see all the extreme weather and such and know its happening too, inside. The lesson learned was that this is a massively emotionally overwhelming, huge thing that pretty much any one feels powerless in the face of...We deal with that as we can.

So the way forward is to groove, to have fun with what we're doing. We know the things that can make a difference: more fruits and veggies in the diet, more biking less driving, more local production less imports. The other increasingly important thing is damage mitigation strategies - having things in place to survive the tornadoes, hurricanes in places they've never been before, endless fires, droughts, monsoon like rains and flooding, etc.

I think its well advised to forget about a meaningful response from DC at this point. If you're reading this, you are the resistance, you are the community leader on mitigation, you the one to turn people on to local production, healthy eating, cycling and all the rest, through making it where the fun is at. One thing on our side is that this moral lifestyle just feels better for some reason, its more beautiful. Aesthetics is super-cognition, it tells us when things are good when the actual reasons are too complex or distant for the day-to-day rational mind to grasp. Beauty is on our side, fun is, so is that good feeling that comes from doing things right.

But the key is, forget about fear. Forget about scaring people. We're all scared enough. Make it about fun. Make it about enjoying life.

PEace