Compilation: FEAR is a Good Thing and HOPE is Not an Action Verb



 

Guest post by Julie Johnston, Greenhearted.org, Transformative Education for Sustainability, Greenheartedblog, first posted, June 8, 2009 -- Updated Dec. 1, 2011.
(Video above, final note and links below added by ecoSanity.)

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When the situation is a frightening one...

Hasn't it seemed just a bit counterintuitive that so many environmental groups and activists have kept saying, "We can't scare the public"?

We are facing the most terrifying possibility ever, and yet they insist we shouldn't spread "doom and gloom." Hey, dooming the future is a gloomy prospect!

But here is a voice of reason - from a respected author and commentator no less (mine would never be called a "voice of reason" as I am all for heart, soul, spirit, intuition, emotions, feelings, gut reactions, and mother's instincts - just to balance out all the reason in the world!).


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a Film/TV industry escapee turned organizer, activist, advocate for EMERGENCY int'l action at world war- time speed to confront the climate, energy, population, democracy, justice crises.
A proponent of peaceful civil disobedience/direct action, Glenn has been an arrested participant in Greenpeace protests outside Canadian PM Stephen Harper's residence, and the federal Parliament buildings.

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