Note that this cartoon is from Canada. Its an anti-China message that good’ol Anglo Canadians (in Calgary) don’t like Canadian-Chinese demonstrating about anything!

Olympic torch cheered in KL video - http://english.sina.com/1/2008/0421/155556.html

Uhh, just send all those Latinos back where they came from (Mexico? But wait, they were in California first!) and that’ll bring the population back to 1900 white mans’ version. Then ya can all feel happy about yer pollution levels….... if the decrease!?!?

^ simple:  Go for it.  And good luck; just remember KISS (keep it simple stupid).  Ha Ha, good luck!

Hell yeah! That’s what I’m talking about! Believe me, I’m trying to get something like that started up from the grass-roots here in my state. Florida is a state of precedents!

^ if we; bought American and ate seasonally we’d bring the whole system down?  Now that’s revolutionary!

^ individual decisions made locally one person at a time.  Individual responsibility for the things we put in our bodies and the bodies of our children.  This is so simple; don’t complicate this with global thinking (thats a myth).  We’re talking one person at a time.  Buy American and eat seasonally.  It’s simple, really.

Expat, additionally, it has to be a movement inculcated into our country through practical advertising and business methods. We don’t have any businesses really trying to change the way they do practices because, much to the contrary of what some may think, business is as dumb as government most of the time. They run on what is established to work. Rarely do people make real risks.

This problem needs multi-lateral attention, and it is really hard to have a real change until it is marketable to the working class.

^ want to green up?  A very simple way is to eat seasonally; eat only those vegetables that are available in your local area by season.  Don’t buy tomatoes in the seasons they wouldn’t normally be in the produce section (one example).  Buy only organic as much as you can, locally; farmers markets are great places to visit.  As long as we shop Safeway/Fred Meyer/Trader Joes/Natures Foods, etc. we encourage the rape of the planet and the exploitation of indigenes peoples everywhere.  More importantly we lose accountability for the food we consume and feed to our children.  This can only be an individual decision which then becomes a collective movement but only if we see the short and long-term value of such a decision in our personal lives.  Of course this goes far beyond our food.  It’s really a simple thing that could have a profound effect.

Now isn’t that the truth of the matter! Hah!

Yeah, I have a message to the green movement… Stop being so friggin pretentious! I watch programs dedicated to changing the way we think about our role in the world, and you know what I see? A handful of upper middle-class yuppies and guilty white people spend exuberant amounts of money on re-used goods, hybrid cars, extremely expensive high-tech energy saver devices, cork products, organic groceries no working-class family can afford and salvaged antiques. Well, to be coarse and indignant, fuck off!

A real green movement should not be in the hands of those who can afford to feel less guilty. This isn’t a fucking battle against our precious guilt of wealth. This is a fight for our survival not just globally, but economically and pragmatically! The waste our large manufacturing corporations produce is not justified by the increasing prices and disparity of wealth in this country. Many, upon many things can be produced far more cheaply by salvaging at home instead of importing cork from other countries or grabbing bamboo from Asia because they are sustainable across the Earth. How about localized sustainability? Does anyone have any sense anymore?

Yeah! Grow organic! It’s great for the environment, your health and tastes better! Ooh, you want it in your own back yard, well, no. You have to buy it from California. Carbon footprint? Who cares! This is “incremental change.” Please… spare me from these overfed and overpaid morons who like to buy bumper stickers and t-shirts expressing their “civil discontent.” Hey, buddy. You’re just like the Bushies with the American Flag on their car. You’re just as stupid.

Action, not words. Real change happens from where?

Survey says, Bottom Up!