CLIMATE DEBATE GOING FORWARD?: An exciting and tumultuous time, fraught with inherent risk if we do not act boldly today, decisively in our Era

Code Pink activist at the Peoples Climate March New York City, September 20, 2014
photo: abhi ahmadadeen/BMLTV©

(BMLTV) NEW YORK CITY, September 24, 2014 - We live, work, and exist in an exciting, tumultuous time which poses many current and future risks and threats to our well-being, ability to thrive and prosper; and thus far we don't seem to have had the political will to mobilize an effective strategy against a great deal of these risks and threats to our society. In particular, most - nearly all - experts agree now that the largest threat to our current and future well-being as a species as well as the stability of the entire biosphere climate is in fact humanity's influence on climate change.

It is of particular irony that so many issues which pose threats to our national security and to the security of the entire climate on which our species depends upon are all so easily connected and reside in one true and simple cause: the dumping of over 10 million tons of greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere every second. For a split second, it may make you imagine, "the end is nigh," having a degree of weight to it, but then hope should rise, perhaps in some relation to frustration and anger, to the surface.

On Sunday, September 21st, 2014 over 400,000 people marched in Manhattan, in the single largest protest calling for action against climate change in the history of the movement for awareness of this challenging crisis which affects every single human soul living on our Earth today, and countless billions who have yet to come to exist. They carried a message: we can take dramatic action against climate change and still see dramatic economic growth.

You can find out more about how that old ringing myth that our economy would be stifled by action is wrong by going to " http://newclimateeconomy.report " or checking out what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama both have both said this week on these issues; one comment was that climate change is a bigger threat than ISIL/ISIS - and you wouldn't believe how many, generally Republican, individuals with presidential ambitions jumped into the echo chamber to refute that claim alone.

We've never seen 400,000 people out in support of taking action against the risk of climate change and for the new green jobs economy; that should give one hope. We have never seen more than one hundred thousand people travel this far for climate change, let alone over a quarter of a million people. What is frustrating will be a world where nothing happens after this - and we have to hope that this is only just the beginning; the coming of age for our climate change movement for awareness and action - ours because it belongs to every member of the human species, and most members of life on Earth, this movement is ours and we depend on this issue gaining even more decisive momentum across all spectrum: cultural, technological, political, commercial, economic, international.

One protester's sign that a good friend and colleague of mine, journalist Abhi Ahmadadeen, managed to capture in a photo at the rally read, "We don't have a planet, 'b," and that is powerful and true. We can't afford to see a four degree rise in temperature on Earth in this century, and that is likely to happen; maybe even if we act; but the risk of not acting will be a definite end to all booming economies and a certain bust for our species. As a journalist, and as a human being, it saddens me that I was not able to attend this massive and historic rally.

A final note for this evening; one can not, "believe," climate change any more or less than they, "believe," any other scientific theory. Theory is just that - it is data, hypothesis, and the presentation of statistical likelihood; but we ought to, "believe," in humanity, and ourselves, and our ability to see the significant, deadly risk and threat that the billions of annually added man-made greenhouse gasses pose in the impact on our future. In this century, the 21st Century, we have the responsibility to act on this significant risk as the marginal cost is far exceeded by both the benefit and certainly the potential devastation.

by: alex jones/BMLTV©