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Scientists Who Trust Their Own Evidence Take Action
By Clinton Callahan Einstein's bomb worked, remember, so he may also be right when he said, No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. How much longer will you continue believing that the same system that created global warming and financial collapse has the ability to fix it? Here are actions to take: It seems to me that we are at the go/no-go moment in terms of preventing the methane tipping point from avalanching into unstoppable global warming. It could the moment for scientists around the world who trust their own global warming evidence to withdraw from the system that propagates the global warming. Withdrawal from the system is neither symbolic nor philosophical. Withdrawal is swift, total and drastic. The intention is to proactively collapse the carbon economy to give humanity a chance to change direction.
This would require great personal efforts and sacrifice on the part of the scientists. It would impact our families, teams, companies and organizations with a radical change of plans. It would also require you to take your own work seriously. If you do not trust your evidence enough to take direct personal action, why should someone else? If our withdrawal could critically disable the carbon economy, its rapid demise would avoid even greater suffering from flood, draught, worldwide famine, and continued resource wars. Abandoning modern culture proactively as a result of trusting scientific evidence would prove that human intelligence exists. It would be like steering a careening brakeless automobile into the hillside to stop it rather than doing nothing. By intentionally crashing the car someone might survive. Flying off the cliff is suicide for all. The choice is not actually up to political authorities. The choice is up to the creative powerhouse behind the industrial machine: you, the scientists, engineers, programmers, designers, technicians and researchers keeping things going. To continue a carbon-hungry consumer lifestyle in the face of recent climate-change knowledge makes us no more intelligent than bacteria, consuming beyond the carrying capacity of our resources and dieing in our own wastes. Withdrawal is simple and effective. It is nonviolent noncooperation with whatever is nonsustainable. This would include: - Quit your job, because almost no organization including corporate, government, military, and education are sustainable – business assumes it is possible to externalize true costs.
- Sell your car, change to bicycle, public transportation, horse, and walking.
- Become basically vegetarian.
- Create community; learn the soft skills of village weaving.
- Find your people, create sustainable culture – not money-based but collaboration-based – collaboration is wealth, power and satisfaction.
- Establish local authority and local autonomy.
- Move out of your house or off-the-grid, e.g. straw bale passive solar, etc.
- With your people grow most of your own food without fertilizers, pesticides, or tractors.
- Avoid imported foods such as bananas, pineapples, out of season fruits, spices, coffee, chocolate, sugar.
- Avoid fast food chains – they abuse third world labor and resources, pumping money away from third world economy and your local economy.
- Move away from mainstream pharmaceuticals and learn alternative healing and preventative health care.
- Home school the children, learning together how to heal yourselves of TPP (technopenuriaphobia – the fear of the loss of technology, as explained in the book Radiant Joy Brilliant Love www.radiant-joy.com).
- Recognize the Second Copernican Revolution, that people do not own nature. Nature owns people. Nature and people both have more value than money.
- Learn to make or grow most everything you need: shaving cream, soap, toothpaste, shampoo, toilet paper, etc.
- Shift from the disposable mentality (throw away things when they break) to repairable mentality.
- Stop using petrochemical plastics, packaging, newspapers, mail order catalogues.
- Refuse to make any garbage at all, recycle everything (look in your garbage – it reveals the nonsustainable part of your lifestyle).
- Stop air flights, boat trips, exotic vacations – reorient towards pilgrimage, restoring nature, and local outdoor adventures by foot.
- Get rid of most of your stuff, anything you have not touched in the past year.
- Avoid TV and canned entertainment – instead get with friends and create living theater, sing, retell legends, build musical instruments, dance, make art, engage authentic transformational processes, explore new territories of experience.
- Learn new communication skills; expand your abilities to be physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually intimate.
- Avoid the paradigm of money and adopt a local paradigm of creating abundance through giving to each other.
- Sell your stocks, securities and investments, and deal openly with your addiction to gambling.
- Divest your interests in buildings or land that you do not inhabit full-time.
- Direct your time and energy towards befriending and nurturing children, plants and animals, collaborating with your neighbors and effective organizations; celebrate together a lot.
- Change your orientation so that work is about what matters to you rather than working to pays the bills.
- Transform your relationship to fear so you can enter states of raw creation and invention.
- Implement cultural innovations that develop every person’s beneficial potential.
- Shift from increasing having to increasing being. Give presence rather than presents.
- Reorient towards personal development rather than personal possessions.
- Reorient from consuming to renewing the natural environment.
- Develop your capacity to experience and express love.
What do you actually think about this? Does it make sense? What are you willing to say and do along these lines? What can you stop now? Next week? Next month? What do the people you know say and do about this? Many people criticize the idea of proactively collapsing the carbon economy. Are you ready to take action even if others won’t? How much longer will you wait before you replace talk with personal action? For creative collaboration and support in your choices assemble a Just Stop Team www.just-stop.org. Thank you for considering this. Clinton Callahan, originator of Possibility Management and Phoenix Process, author of Radiant Joy Brilliant Love, founder of Callahan Academy, empowers responsible creative leadership through authentic personal development. He has traveled, lived or worked in 36 different countries, and is co-creating a sustainable-culture research ecovillage in Southern Germany called Possibilica.
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