Empowering Ideas: Nurturing Our Collective Resilience

An Idea the Empowers.

Last year I wrote 50 to 60 blog posts on ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency’ and shared none of them, so I thought I would create this ‘Ghost’ account and start updating and sharing them. They deal with topics of the Climate Emergency and ‘a topic’ such as the Climate Emergency and Biology, or the Climate Emergency and Education and so forth.

So I created this monetized ‘Ghost’ account to keep us focused on the Climate Emergency alongside ‘Love is Blind’ or ‘The Bachelor’ – not that these are bad, we need a variety of realism alongside reality TV. One particular blog post written was an in-depth opinion on immigration.

After our ‘Ghost’ blog venue entitled ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency’ is set up I will add the link to the menu above (for those at cCc). Please consider supporting me. Also note that my personal blog will be opening shortly as well.

At this venue which I rebuilt from the bottom up with the help of an advanced web design coder and features a more modern look and feel. I will be opening this one very soon.

Now moving to my mental file cabinet. I have several blog posts that I started but never finished as well as a bunch of ideas that I plan to include in our future collective community member’s book club. Before discussing the book club (which I truly think might be a good idea in of itself) these strewn about blog posts will be completed and also shared.

They include topics or titles such as:

How Law-Enforcement and Climate Justice Advocates make an incredible team but just don’t know it yet.
How Maga, Q, right-wing religious organizations and climate deniers make the best and efficient body of people to have an incredible impact in our expedited move towards renewables.
Why we need to rethink how we live and become proactive in lieu of our worsening Climate Emergency.
Why Adaptive Resilience now must become a common everyday household word coupled with actions to enhance and promote it in our communities.
What happens when mammals are no longer able to withstand our changing environmental conditions due to the worsening Climate Emergency.
Why women and children (as well as young adults) are key to leading our shift towards a truly equitable sustainable extinction-free future.
Why Emergency Services Workers, Teachers, Essential Workers, Infrastructure Workers, Nurses, Firefighters, Law-Enforcement… are truly key to our sustainable future and why their salaries must immediately be tripled.
How Governments can empower their citizens by moving them out of poverty which will have the effect of expediting our move towards renewables.
Why actions like book-clubs and other ignorant decreasing endeavors are now necessary to protect our future.
Why the very first step in tackling ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency’ is training ourselves in the ‘Art of Listening.’ –which by the way will be our very first Adaptive Resilience Book Club Read.
Why we should find ways to utilize AI towards helping us create and sustain an equitable sustainable extinction-free habitable planet for our children’s future.
And a few others. Remember these are only a handful of those I have in my mental file cabinet that will be (or not) be included in our collective adaptive resilience book authoring.

In regard to the book club which is now at the very beginning stages I am attempting to implement a new novel idea that could possibly help us tackle ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency’ by leaps and bounds, or at least this is one of the main goals of this idea.

The book club is a unique idea that can be started by anyone as it pulls people away from ignorance which means they become more grounded in reality, see the need to protect our children’s future, extinguish the attacks by the fossil fuel and other unethical entities and much more. It is all about empowering and moving towards a sustainable extinction-free world all with the intentions of security and confidence in our children that we are doing our best to provide them a habitable planet.

The way it works is quite simple, we read a book together, chapter by chapter (such as two to three chapters a week) then together we discuss and pull data, idea, and more from this and our day to day experiences and then as a club write a book on ‘Adaptive Resiliency’ and this book will grow.

Another amazing idea that I am keeping for this actual book involved empowering the club members and supporting them in a unique way. I have already say about 38 pages of this book that I had started around August 24^th, 2016 and have added and expanded little by little since then.

Much of it I had shared but since we had an unethical president (my opinion) that served as a tremendous setback towards renewables energy and a ‘carbon free future’ (Net Zero), it had moved slow just like other endeavors by scores of those on the front and back end of our road towards a sustainable extinction-free planet.

In any event I toil at times how to present ideas, format dialogue to be truly inclusive and include those whose view is clouded (with the hopes of un-clouding their view towards reality). As I share posts such as those mentioned above and others in my mental file cabinet or written already I will include these as part of this ‘Adaptive Resilience’ book (remember it is a collective endeavor).

Now if you are reading this at Climate Change Community (.com) or at our new ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency’ blog venue (here) please stay tuned as this very blog post will now continue within the ‘Adaptive Resilience Community Book Club.’

Thanks and look for more blog posts in the near future. Be well, be safe and by all means let’s improve our health by improving the health of our planet.

Addendum: Immigrants/Refugees and Our Own Needs:

I recently learned that I have a very large following of those who support a presidential candidate that is unpopular at the moment and this is because of my views, ideas and opinion (meaning my actions to share them) which runs totally counter to some of their goals in supporting this candidate.

I will take advantage of this fact (a very large following of a presidential candidate supporters) by offering my views, opinions and those of other democracy-minded folks (democracy differs from democratic principles here I believe).

This is all fine and good as we are all entitled to not agree with each other based on what our own thoughts on subjects are, some grounded in realism and some unfortunately not. This is not a criticism but a different way of looking at things you might say.

The first point is that your beliefs are yours and your own business and others are theirs, but to emotionally and psychologically attack those who disagree with your beliefs or because you disagree with theirs says a whole bunch about your confidence and integrity of your choice of leadership.

Resorting to unethical, dangerous and illegal strategies to intimidate or cause fear in others so your candidate gets an upper edge is something that indicates a move towards an autocratic society, basically a society that functions on controlling others choices, opinions and freedoms.

This is not only dangerous for those with their own ideas and opinions but will definitely boomerang towards you in the long run, causing remorse and regret in your own psyche. In fact, it will lead to internal strife and bring out an ugliness we have witnessed throughout history of society collapsing due to willfully eroding democratic and moral standards. It is nothing I am making up, it is case history.

Let’s take both Immigration and our own needs for instance. Let’s combine them here for a second. We must always remember immigrants and refugees are running from something painful. For example, there was a beautiful family in the southern country of South America. They had a small farm and their parents grew their own food. At night they would sit on the porch and laugh and tell stories as was common for many families there like this. The children were happy and loved going to school and helping around this very small farm.

Then something happened—drought for some and floods for others came, food would not grow and gangs started appearing spurred by this lack of viable resources (food and water). Things became dangerous and precarious and so when a visiting reporter asked them. What they are going to do and they said we must leave or die.

The reporter asked why and their response is because nothing grows anymore (true story). Our needs include water, shelter, clothing, security, and a sense of these will be available to us otherwise we become ‘Climate Refugees/Climate Immigrants.

You see immigrants are victims not the actual problems. Do you think they want to leave their nice farms and come here? Absolutely not as we would (and now are) do(ing) the same thing ourselves. This is something that even some well-established countries, especially Americans and other countries, are now experiencing on a daily basis.

The cause of course is those unscrupulous companies and unethical wealthy individuals mired in avarice (greed) and those who hunger for power or to maintain it. History again bears this out in pristine examples.

What this tells us about our own needs is that we have so much in common with immigrants and refugees that to me are now predominantly this way due to ‘Our Shared Climate Emergency.’ We, whether you are Maga, Q, Climate Deniers and others cannot argue with us, since we all seek the same thing which is having our basic needs met.

We all know we need water, food, shelter, clean air, security and good health to survive instinctively and this is exactly what Climate Immigrants and Refugees are desiring. Their needs matches our needs and have a candidate making them out to be monsters when many are much more skilled and educated from experience to tackle the Climate Emergency we are actually attacking our own sense of morality and humanity by displaying hypocrisy brought on by those that feed us nonsense and misinformation (lies and distorted facts) to gain their own agenda.

I am sorry but the point of having our needs met simply cannot be argued. We cannot deny our basic needs and at the same time attack others just having the same exact needs. It is the way or road towards a selfish apathetic society where you see people killing each other for a piece of bread.

I will stop here but please consider a ‘what then’ from your chosen candidate. Ask them we won, what now? Or what is the plan now? And you will see that there are probably more words of division, creating an environment of ‘us-against-them’ or even more dangerous hurting those who stood on the side of empowering democracy.

We might think we have the answers but without cooperation and collaboration by those who think differently and by not accepting we all have similar needs we will be destined towards internal destruction. Again education, especially the type of SDL (Self-Directed Learning) education provides the means to decrease ignorance—which when you do empowers us tremendously even financially thereby pulling us out of poverty.

You might ask what qualifies me to talk like this? I have been there and done that, from being homeless on the NYC subways in the late 70’s to being attacked consistently for my beliefs to having to throw objects at rats as I tried to sleep so they would not come near me. Experience qualifies me and I intend to use every ounce of it to see that we are leaving a sustainable extinction-free planet for our children.

Thanks for reading this!

cCc