> Here here. Finding the 'killer app' on climate change is a frequent
> topic of bar conversation with folks I used to work on global AIDS
> with. In my daydreams about the subject, I find myslf thinking on how
> since climate change is fundamentally an intergenerational issue--- we
> harm future generations--- and because 'family' has the highest
> positives in the US, creating a network of families would be the key
> thing. Moving the issue away from the fringe, the puppeteers, the
> sects, the artists etc--- and working to mobilize mass demos, civil
> disobediance, etc, of a specifically parents and kids nature. Could
> organizations be formed in a few cities, networked together, in which
> membership was on a family basis, that sought to mobilize people into
> actions as parents and as children? In my mind, the visual of parents
> and kids marching together or doing cd together on the issue of profound
> harm that one's generation is leaving to another--- that visual
> accomplishes much of the paradigm shift needed in how our society
> regards climate change.
I think you are on to something here. Some people would complain loudly about putting children into danger, but intergenerational CD on climate change would be a powerful visual message.
I was brainstorming last night some ideas for propaganda posters that would link assholes like Rush Limbaugh to global warming. My idea was to tie the ghostly image of Limbaugh looming over some post-warming apocalypse. If we are going to organize dramatic action to stop, or slow down, global warming, then the motherfuckers like Limbaugh who laugh at global warming should be targeted. Maybe a stunt like flooding the headquarters of some neo-con K Street organization with water.
There is some group that is doing a TV ad campaign aimed at kids that plays up the plight of polar bears drowning.
Chuck