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Today’s movement towards a healthy non nuclear planet – theme for October 14

The world-wide People’s Climate March on September 21st showed that Climate Change is recognised as a huge global threat.  The mainstream media glossed over this as quickly as they could, focusing on terrorism and matters military. Nevertheless, people have woken up, as never before, to the global nature of problems of environment and public health.  Like a slow dawning, even political leaders are starting to see important connections, like for example, the safety threats of nuclear power plants situated in another country, but near their borders.

As always, politicians, beholden as they are to their corporate funders, are the last to want to act in the public interest, for a healthier planet.

Fortunately more and more people are realising that wonderful aim of Friends Of The Earth – “Think globally, act  locally “.

Many of those who marched in September had no connection with organised groups. Many others were members of groups like Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, Beyond Nuclear and hundreds of others – too many to list.

The corporate and political sociopaths who run government, business and mass media do not want  you to know that environmental groups have made much progress. Not only the visible activism of Greenpeace exploits, and of protest marches, but the quieter actions of lobbying, and of alternative media have brought about changes in law, and curbed the onslaught of rapacious polluting industries.

What’s happening now includes the recognition that renewable energy and energy efficiency are economically successful, as well as universally ever more popular.  Despite the powers that be, the world is realising that the “nuclear renaissance” is a stillbirth, and that the Fukushima nightmare is not over.

The task for those who care about the future of this planet is to keep on in the movement for the local and global public interest.

It’s good to join positive groups.  But just look out for the charlatans. There are plenty of these, with important sounding names and important sounding members. Some American examples are-  The Breakthrough Institute, Americans For Prosperity, American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute,  Heartland Foundation, Heritage Foundation, and of course, nuclear information groups like Nuclear Matters.  America is the great leader in these dishonest industry front groups, but all other countries have some, too, along with journalists like George Monbiot, who have been sucked in.

The best way to detect corporate anti-environment propaganda is, if possible, to “Follow The Money” – who is funding them? This applies to academics, too – as polluting corporations increasingly fund universities.

September 28, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's themes