AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006)
Al Gore goes on the campaign trail to persuade audiences to reverse the effects of global climate change.

“Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.”

GLOBAL DIMMING
Why predictions about the Earth’s climate will need to be re-examined.

We are all seeing rather less of the Sun. Scientists looking at five decades of sunlight measurements have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling. Paradoxically, the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought.

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See also:

• [rampARTannounce] two square meals
• Support THE SQUARE this FRIDAY 9AM or earlier
• Free ‘Peak Oil’ conference in London, 15 July 2006
• Carbon Con update
• Amsterdam prepares for global warming…

This poem was sent to me yesterday by someone for whom I care deeply but have been out of touch with for a while.

Apparently it was written by a teenager with cancer who would like as many people as possible to read her poem. Please pass it on.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done!
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,”Hi”
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

See also:

• Slow Dance
• Dance upon injustice
• Go placidy amid the noise & haste…
• Visit to Yelnow Farm
• GuerrillaGardening.org News