Rosie the Riveter, public transit, climate change and YOU
Last week I stayed up late two nights in a row while happily stepping
into the vividly-described world of Betty Reid Soskin's wonderful new
memoir, "Sign My Name to Freedom". https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sign-my-name-to-freedom-betty-reid-soskin/1125684317#/
The last several chapters in Soskin's book tell us all about her work at the "Rosie the
Riveter" Home Front National Park in Richmond CA, and her descriptions of the park and its museum are so enticing that I
immediately ran right out there. I caught the bus -- and public transportation
dropped me off practically right at the museum's front doorstep, even
better than Uber. Plus I get my best reading done on public
transit. Plus subways and buses are doing a lot toward
preventing climate change from raging too far out of control too soon
(please wait until after I die before allowing it to destroy the world!)
Another thing Soskin writes about in her book that thoroughly moved me were her descriptions of the amazingly unified cooperation between every single man,
woman and child in America in order to "do the damn thing" and win World
War II, making the world safe from German fascism (although unfortunately WW II didn't manage to keep us safe from American fascism. Sigh.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRTttyZ-MDk
At the end of her book Soskin also points out that if Americans could so
completely mobilize and commit themselves in the battle against Hitler,
then surely we Americans can also completely mobilize and commit ourselves
against an even greater danger -- climate change. Think about that for a
minute. But don't think too long. Our last window of opportunity is
rapidly closing. Now is the time to act. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/american-cities-that-will-soon-be-under-water/ss-AAyRWxS?ocid=spartanntp
Like what happened all across America back in the 1940s, we all gotta
sacrifice in the face of a huge common danger and act outside of our own
individual self-interest in order to save the whole freaking human
race.
But does all this horrific new information leave us with any hope for the
human race at all? Yes it does -- but only if we mount an immediate,
all-out assault on extinction prevention. And, to quote Rosie the Riveter, "We can do it!" We just have to. There is no other rational choice.
PS:
The number-one cause of climate change right now is "war". Sorry guys
but America, Israel, NATO and the Saudis need to hand over all their
"war" toys to the scrap drive if the human race is ever to survive. https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/14/clinging-to-collusion-why-evidence-will-probably-never-be-produced-in-the-indictments-of-russian-agents/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-doesnt-make-sense-anymore/
Plus I also would prefer not to get fried like an egg on my own sidewalk
by a Hot War with Russia, China and/or Iran either -- just because some
greedy warmongering idiots in the media know not what they do.
And let's also consider all those "liberal" Americans who had the good
sense to be horrified by that
dangerously trumped-up 1950s Cold War and then horrified again by those
pricey and
wholly-invented 21st century "wars" on Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine,
Yemen, Honduras, Ukraine and
Afghanistan. Unbelievably, they too are falling for all of this new
"hate Russia" crap. Perhaps they just can't wait to get blown up and/or radiated to death by a
thermonuclear "war" on Russia -- but I can. Isn't being seriously
endangered by climate change scary enough? https://www.globalresearch.ca/immigration-western-wars-and-imperial-exploitation-uproot-millions/5645586
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