– Blogging has been good very for me.  Not financially but, rather, in the connections I’ve made to people out in the world whom I would have never met otherwise.
– In addition to writing for this Blog, Samadhisoft, I also publish occasional articles over on The Seitch.  I like what they are doing there and I feel honored that they let me use their site to express some of my thoughts.  A number of people contribute to The Seitch and two stand out in particular to me; the Naib, who founded the site and who is its most prolific author, and Keith Farnish, who also writes extensively there.
– Keith also runs various Blogs of his own, including The Earth Blog and The Unsuitablog.Â
– Recently, Keith published a book entitled, “Time’s Up! an uncivilized solution to a global crisis“. He announced his new book on The Seitch here.
– His new book can be read on-line, here.  I’m reading it now and enjoying it. It’s full of keen analysis of the world’s current problems and what we might do about them.  Recommended.
– On another front, I’ve recently become on-line friends with a fellow in Germany named Clinton Callahan who is the driving force behind an intentional community called Possibilica. Â He also runs the Callahan Academy and has written a book (which I’ve not yet read) called, Radiant Joy Brilliant Love.
– In a recent E-Mail, Clinton included a list of things people can do if they want to directly and personally address the world and the state it is in. Â It is radical and courageous stuff, just as the recommendations in Keith Farnish’s book are.
– These are creative thinkers and people who believe that words must be matched by action if one’s convictions are to be graced with integrity.  In truth, I am still playing “catch up” in this respect.  Thus far, I’m long on words and a good deal shorter on action.  But, as they say, all of the rest of my life still lies before me.
– So, I encourage you to follow and explore the links I’ve scattered here and I also encourage you to have a good look through the list of actions Clinton suggests, below. Â
– Not all of us will be able to rearrange our lives so powerfully as he suggests but all of us can benefit, I think, by becoming aware that there are folks out there creating new ways of living – and calling the rest of us to join them.
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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 be 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, Â 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, Â 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. Â
- Reorient from consuming  to renewing the natural  environment.
- Develop your capacity to experience and express  love.
If you already see the perfect storm about to hit humanity and trust your own findings, then immediately and completely extricating yourself from the system that generates the problems is appropriate. Let the system fail. It was not well thought out. Our combined population growth and harmful technological waste products grew so quickly we did not have time to make other plans. By redirecting your incredible creative capacity towards generating sustainable culture then we Homo sapiens could be true to our name.
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.
Thanks for the links – much appreciated.