<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I don't even have children and the fate of future generations is > constantly on my mind. > > Perhaps I'm a stupid, incurable optimist, so I don't fit well with the > doomsayer collapsism of the American Left. I think that we can make a > difference, but we have to ACT now. Once again, I'm 100% with Chuck. Having a kid made me take global warming more personally, but even before that it scared me. But not to paralysis or fatalism or collapsism (I like that one!). It's as if all the crisis theorists just found another pole of doom to hang their hats on. </blockquote></div> 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.