The Post Enviro Show Post #7
We didn’t have time to get into much depth on the financial meltdown or the Bush Billionaire Bailout during the show last Tuesday ‘cuz of call-ins on mountain top removal and King Coal. Now that the Dem and Repugnican leadership in congress have sold-out the people and bailed out the corporados I thought I’d recommend Rober Reich’s blog and this segment of last week’s Democracy Now.
Least you think us tree-hugging dirt-worshippers have gone over to straight politics, bear in mind that what goes on in DC and on Wall Street is not divorced from what goes on in the biosphere. In fact we read a piece on the climate crisis vs. the financial crisis during the last show addressing this very matter. Having said that, where do we go from here? Well, a popular uprising seems like the only choice left, no? Here’s what I wrote on Reich’s blog:
“For decades the people in this nation have been indoctrinated into a get-along-to-go-along mindset through the media and education system; they’ve been driven to distraction by infotainment and mindless blather; and they’ve been disempowered by a corrupt duopoly, a true oligarchy in a growing police state. What kind of “uprising” can we expect from such a scenario?
During the birth of this nation and during the 1930s folks were truly hurting; they had less to lose going out into the streets and expressing their anger. Not so at this point in time. Any demonstrations that occur during the next few weeks or months will most likely be peopled by the usual suspects. However, if things grow really dim that could change. One thing’s for sure: writing about it is one thing, DOING something about it quite another.”
d.o.
Tags: climate, Collectives, Education and Social Issues Collective, Education-and-Social-Issues-Collective, financial crisis, Opinion, Programmer's Notes, The Enviro Show
