The rebroadcast of the 2% Solution tonight, Feb 1 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Church is critical for many reasons. The one that I see is to answer the question:

How do we actually avert the coming climate destabilization; what do we actually need to accomplish in order to have a good chance to avoid descending into climate hell? Then, what are the particulars and how do they link from the local to the global?

The point is what is the contribution of this Focus the Nation movement on the end-goal? What are its possibilities and potentials?

This is worth some discussion.

Last night's Focus the Nation at the Museum was also billed as "Solutions." Solutions to the Global Warming crisis. I would suggest that it was something positive, but lacked any understanding of the scope, scale and urgency of this "climate destabilization as the limiting factor." The predominant view was that "We need to all get together, alter our lifestyles, be efficient and work toward getting renewables." There was only one statement about the extent and degree of the dramatic changes coming.

It is as if we believe that the best efforts of us---those of us who care and will respond---will be enough to handle what is coming. Missing is the obvious elephant in the room.....

The earth will not negotiate or compromise with us............ nor will she wait until we actually apprehend the scope and urgency. We must ask not "What do we want from the earth and her resources?....... but "What does the earth require from us?" All of us. Together. And if it is all of us together, how do we begin to get to the "communion of purpose" required. What is at stake here is more "near-term biocide," than "loss of the polar bears by 2100."

Additionally, there is a built-in sense that we cannot present or express the urgency because it is alarmist and Americans are too tied-into their non-negotiable lifestyles. The mall is more important, implied, than the future of most of all life, particularly ours as well.

The conversation then does not include the truth about what is needed................ nor do we understand what is required.

And when the scale is alluded-to, then the requirements of our economy or lifestyle is presumed to be final determinants. This was actually mentioned last night.

We have only little time to actually change the conversation and get the scope of understanding acted upon with the urgency that is needed.

Sending Presence and Light,

Michael