Time to Make Peace & Protect the Planet!
Climate Change and War!
Two Sides of the Same Disaster Coin!
While many Americans become consumed by “March Madness” – the U.S. Presidential primary elections and the NCAA basketball championship being played out this month, there is another kind of madness afoot, a much more catastrophic madness.
In February, the planet hit a troubling Climate Change milestone. The mercury doesn’t lie. Temperature in the northern hemisphere crossed the must-not cross-line of more than 2 degrees Celsius, the first time in recorded history and likely the first time in the course of human civilization. Temperature records are being crushed monthly. Be prepared for more extreme and frequent storms and droughts. Last year Hawaii and the Central Pacific had 15 Tropical storms and hurricanes. We were fortunate with no direct hits. But look at poor Fiji just last month and the massive flooding taking place across the U.S. south this week. What’s in store for Hawaii in the coming hurricane season?
The world is in a deep hole and it’s time to stop digging. Oil, coal and gas need to be left in the ground. Climate change is here and now and increasing rapidly.
The Pentagon’s War on the Earth!
The U.S. war machine is the largest single consumer of oil and the greatest emitter of CO2 in the world. The U.S. is a nation of war. Under Obama alone, the U.S. has bombed at least 8 countries, conducted regime changes, killed, injured, and made refugees of millions. Gallop polls say the U.S. is the most feared nation on earth. At home, recent reports show that the major party to poison our land, etc. is our military establishment created in the name of defending us.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/09/pentagons-war-on-the-earth/
Just look at Hawaii Island. There are at least 57 present and former military sites, involving hundreds of thousands of acres littered with unexploded bombs and other military toxins, including depleted uranium, and chemical and biological warfare agents. The clean up cost is in the billions, perhaps tens of billions. Easy and fast to make a mess,. Hard, slow, and sometimes impossible to clean it up. And the Pentagon is skilled at seeking immunity from environmental protection laws.
American history professor, William Blum, sums it up this way: “American foreign policy is the greatest threat to world peace, prosperity, and the environment.” Let’s stop creating enemies and declare peace with all people and the earth itself.
It’s Time to Live Aloha!
- Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
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Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (March 18, 2016 – 756th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
