[pp.int.general] Don't roast our planet

[Daniel Riaño]

2012/5/16 Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>

> Our planet is heading towards a global heating disaster



This is most likely true. Problem is, in order to address the issue, we
must be ready to examine and eventually adopt the scientifically and
economically viable possibilities for developing sources of energy that
don't promote the global heating disaster (i.e. mostly CO2 emissions). Or
rather, the problem is that the most viable, tested, already working source
of energy that don't promote CO2 emissions is anathema, specially in
N-unplugging, Pirate-leading Germany.

Sure we have a problem, but to my mind it is more than anything else a
problem of prejudices and fear.

Sooner or later we should be able to come to grips with this issue. But
amidst the hellish time we are going through in Europe and elsewhere, I'd
rather wait some months to move this issue right frontmost in public pirate
discourse.

In the case we don't want to wait to make this PR move, I think I made my
mind clear on this issue, and I'll stand to it, until an alternative as
well as viable source is tested to work.

Daniel







> that will make
> World War II look small.  (Recently I read that 70 million people in
> Bangladesh face losing their land to the sea.)  If we are to avoid
> this, we need strong efforts right away.  Meanwhile, greedy bastards
> are funding activities such as the Heatland Institute [spelling
> intentional] to pretend there is no problem.
>
> A party that doesn't give high priority to this is not addressing
> humanity's needs.
>
> The German Pirate Party program takes a reasonable position on the
> environment in general, but it's section number 13 (not near the
> start), and it doesn't mention global heating.  ("Global warming"
> doesn't express the seriousness of the issue so I recommend "global
> heating" instead.)
>
> I propose that the Pirate Movement take a strong and clear stand:
> We must save our planet from being roasted!
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
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