A Graduation Speech to the "Class of 2010" on Climate Change and Tightening the Noose around Coal

Copenhagen meetings Dec. 8-18, 2009, what will come after? Did you see the movie THE ROAD yet or earlier CITY OF EMBER? 2099 is not so far away....

Carol told me: "Hi, Dan, I watched your lecture to the future when you posted it on Kunstlercast and re-watched it again. It was great; however, I think if we have not done anything now, then there won't be any humans in the year you speak to them." [Danny says: YOU ARE RIGHT, Carol, we need to act NOW. NOW! TODAY!]

Mary Susan MacDonald, Canadian cartoonist in Toronto, did a good cartoon on this theme too, titled "Tightening the noose....around fossil fuels", worth googling for on her website... Thanks, Mary!

2500 views as of today, a small minor milestone of sorts. Onward little vid

Judy Lowe, writing in the Christian Science Monitor online paper, blogs on this video and concldues: "....the video, which is squarely aimed at the Class of 2009. (Will we still be arguing over fossil fuels 90 years from now?) ...What interests me about Blooms efforts is the idea of looking into the future to try to see what it might hold for the next generations. What do you think Earth will be like in 2099? And why?" [ LEAVE COMMENTS ABOVE....]

"There was no one left to hear me" -- a climate change poem

by Anonymous (1949 - 2006)

"When the ozone hole was reported to be getting larger year by year
I remained silent because I thought the ozone hole had nothing to do with me
and I did not drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV

When the Arctic ice was reported to be melting more each
summer, year after year
I remained silent because I thought the Artic Sea ice melt had nothing
to do with me
and I did not drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV

When glaciers around the world, from Alaska to Switzerland to the
Himalayas were reported to be shrinking year by year
I remained silent because I thought the gradual receding of these
glaciers had nothing to do with me
and I did not drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV

When the parts per million levels of CO2 were reported to be getting
larger decade by decade, far exceeding the 350 ppm level that was said
to be where we needed to be,
I remained silent because I thought the growing CO2 ppm levels had
nothing to do with me
and I did not drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV

...
When the canaries in the coal mines of climate change were reported to
be falling silent decade by decade, I remained silent because I
thought the death of the canaries in the coal mines had nothing to do
with me
and I did not drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV

...
Eventually there was no one left on Earth except me, but I still
remained silent because I thought that it would be useless to speak
out about how humankind was destroying our natural home -- the Earth
-- because there was no one left to hear me.

And I was right.