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"We must awaken ourselves from such enhancement, now, for time is running out in our resources. Life was difficult for most before the age of consumerism. Because of our increasingly frail environment we have made it dangerously so."
"It is no secret that today we are facing a planetary environmental emergency, endangering most species of the planet including our own, and that this impending catastrophe has its roots in the capitalist economic system."
Try finding media scoundrels explaining what everyone needs to know. Western ones turn a blind eye. Most people have no idea what's going on or how it harms them. Bread and circuses matter more than their own welfare.
Worsening crisis conditions aren't understood. Nor is knowing the urgency to act. Change depends on grassroots activism. Nothing else works and never did. It's not a left, right, or centrist issue. Survival's at stake. Everyone who cares must cooperate together or suffer.
Independent activism is key. America's two-party duopoly is too corrupt and dysfunctional to fix. Another way is essential.
In the 1960s, Dowd was one of 18 anti-war activists. Together they created "The Mobe: Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam." Diverse interests were represented.
Included were "socialists, communists, women, unionists, priests, Blacks, academics," and other ordinary people who cared. He and two others were invited to North Vietnam to observe things firsthand.
They met Pham Van Dong. He was prime minister from 1955 - 1976. He served unified Vietnam in the same capacity until 1987.
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