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Imagine going to a family party where you are the only non-smoker. The room is filled with smoke as everyone around you is puffing away at their pipes, cigars and cigarettes. The smoke gets in your clothes, your hair, your lungs and you feel like you are suffocating, but you don't want to leave because you love these people even as they behave like chimneys. Your host suggests that since you are the only exception in the family party, you might as well light up and offers you a…
ContinuePosted by Sailesh Rao on December 21, 2011 at 8:00am
Adapted from "Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies."
Three centuries ago, Voltaire said, "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." Since human beings, with a few pathological exceptions, act according to their Dharma and truly believe that they are performing the right actions at all times, a corollary to Voltaire's statement is that every atrocity committed by humans…
ContinuePosted by Sailesh Rao on December 17, 2011 at 8:30am
The official Durban Platform for Enhanced Action is a formula for punting all climate change policy actions down the road until 2020. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the scientific community tell us that we really don't have that luxury and must make drastic changes in our energy usage patterns…
ContinuePosted by Sailesh Rao on December 13, 2011 at 5:00am
In the midst of all the disappointments with rumors of Canada backing out of the Kyoto protocol and the rich nations deferring binding emissions targets until 2020, it was heartening to see the Interfaith Leaders at COP-17 step up, accept responsibility for the world's predicament and commit to action.
Here is the text of the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change, its Durban Addendum, a list of the signatories on the scroll that Christiana Figueres was presented today at COP-17 in…
ContinuePosted by Sailesh Rao on December 2, 2011 at 7:01am — 1 Comment
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