Don’t just sit on your butt blogging, do something.
I’m a blogger and commenter and enjoy reading and contributing to a variety of blogs but there’s one attitude in the blogosphere that really bugs me big time; the whinge and dump mentality of a lot of bloggers and contributors. What’s whinge and dump? It’s the idea that once you’ve spotted and commented on the arrant stupidity or outright harm caused by an environmental policy, your responsibility has somehow ended. You’ve exposed it and there’s nothing else that can be done. You’ve done your bit, your conscience is clear, you’re outta there. Well, it isn’t and you aren’t.
You have to follow through or whatever you’ve done is just meaningless; you’re just a pygmy hiding behind a big keyboard. If you’ve read the “about me” on my blog then you’ll know I think the politics of global warming is killing people at this moment; right now, this day, this evening, this night and it will continue killing people for as long as it’s indulged in by the developed world. It may be an ocean liner with a four mile stopping distance but if your effort and I mean your single individual effort, can stop it one inch short of four miles then you’ve saved a few lives.
For me, the follow through involves communications with parish, borough and County Councillors as well as Members of Parliament. I also make the effort of making appointments with them in person and these are actually very rewarding for two reasons; they do talk to you candidly on occasion and they also learn that I’m an ordinary person who has concerns about not only pointless de-industrialisation of my homeland but more importantly, the harm that the global warming movement is doing in the developing world.
That’s the follow through I do. Take the time you’d ordinarilly take on a good comment to google the email addresses of your representatives and send them that comment instead. The same good comment will do for all of them, just change the honorific. I know a lot of commenters here are from Australia and I hope more than a few of our readers. I say “our”, because the real content of the blog is not just the topic but the comments contributed to it. I’ve some great news for you.
One of your own countrywomen, Joanne Nova, and others have crafted and sent a formal request to the Auditor General to audit the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. A blogger by God, really intent on doing something. They’ve had a reply which looks like the start of the usual bureaucratic stalling tactic. Let’s put some pressure on them and you Aussie Lads and Lassies are it, I’m afraid.
Here are all the details at Jo’s blog – Announcing a formal request for the Auditor General to audit the Australian BOM. Google those email addresses of all your representatives, craft an email demanding urgent action on the audit request and give them hell.
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It occurred to me that the lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel’s the sound of silence is a wonderfully prescient simile for blogging.
SOUND OF SILENCE
Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
“Fools,” said I, “you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
While our words remain neon echoes, the silence like cancer grows. We must move our prophetical words from the glowing screens of the tenement halls (blogs) and in front of those who need to get a grip on reality.
It is time to rise up and take the power back, so come on, let us get off our butts and do something.
It is time for us to be heard on all levels.
We must force reality into the heads of those who control our destinies.
Can we fit the vastness of reality into such small closed minds?
NoIdea
NI…Just listened to the track and read the lyrics along with…too true my friend!!
Where the hell is our good China man?
Pointman,
Thank you……. for bringing Jo’s campaign to our attention, and for advocating more direct action by bloggers in bringing this Climate Fraud to a long-overdue end.
I have been a political activist for over 25 years on a number of issues and have literally run the gamut, from having Officers of the Crown threaten to use all their resources to have me and my family thrown out of our home by beggaring me with insurmountable legal costs (when I reported the criminal theft of thousands of taxpayer dollars by one of their own), to forming a lobby group that effected change in Education Legislation (with an ABC TV News interview – not too fussed about anonymity pre-internet…lol), to talk-back radio, Letters to the Editor of many publications, approaches to National current affairs Network programs, face-to-face meetings with Politicians on both sides of the fence, culminating in an Open Letter (including Hansard quotes of Parliamentary ‘debate’) to every one of our State Politicians (all 54 of them at the time) with a copy to the Editor of our largest State newspaper.
You could say, I’ve ‘been there, done that’.
I’ve had every possible response from ridicule, dismissive and patronising scorn, to threats of libel action, to being utterly ignored.
It was not until I encountered the extent of Climate Fraud 15 months ago (Climategate) that I came up against the bulwark of collusion between the MSM, Politicians and the CSIRO/MoB (detailed in Jo’s material) and how impossible it has been to find a chink in the armour-plate with which they have shielded themselves from scrutiny and exposure in this country.
You and Jo have renewed my resolve to give it all ‘another shot’ – let’s hope that Climate scepticism in Australia has reached a level that they simply won’t be able to ignore any longer.
Great post Pointman. BTW – it’s possible to have unexpected success on all sorts of issues with an Open Letter, as long as one sticks to irrefutable facts … LOL