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Moving-Planet.org

Moving-Planet.org

My friends, community wind leaders Windustry,  made me aware today, September 24, is slated for a worldwide positive demonstration called “Moving Planet”. 

According to Moving Planet organizers, today is “a day to put our demands for climate action into motion—marching, biking, skating—calling for the world to go beyond fossil fuels. At over 2000 events in 175+ countries, we’re letting leaders know that a movement is rising to move our planet forward to a clean energy future.”

Find it here at http://www.moving-planet.org/

The thoughts that keep running through my mind for a long time now have been:

Something is wrong…no one is doing anything about it. Everyone, as usual, seems to think “someone else will solve the problem”, for whatever their reason may be. I can only guess what those might be, as I have thought and felt the same at different times:

They are too busy;

they are not important enough;

they are not powerful enough;

they are not smart enough;

they don’t know what to do;

they can perceive no leader they can trust enough to follow;

it seems like an insurmountable obstacle to just overcome the inertia of the status quo;

and many more reasons.

 

It reminds me of a “true” story I heard as a child that has stuck with me my whole life about a woman who was lying in the street, severely injured by a car that had hit her and fled.  A crowd gathered. Some comforted her, some watched on. As time passed, and her condition worsened, people started to wonder when help would arrive.  It never did. She died on the street.  People were outraged that help never arrived.  When they called the police precinct to voice their outrage, they were truthfully told no one had called for help. 

 

All those people there; any one of which could have acted and may have saved that woman, yet no one did. Everyone assumed “someone else must have called for help”.

 

It was explained to me to never assume such a thing.  I was instructed to ALWAYS take action. I was told NOT to call for help myself if others were available, but to take charge and directly assign one (or better, 2 or more) onlookers to do so and make sure they do it; freeing myself up to keep someone in charge of the situation.  Others could then help as needed. 

 

Those lessons laid the groundwork for me to always feel a sense of responsibility to take charge, to act.

 

Bringing me back to the day at hand, I ask:

 

If not us, then who?

If not now, then when?

I commend them and wish I knew about this sooner so as to be more involved. To do my part, I hope to help raise awareness through this post. I’ve already marked it on my calendar for next year.  

Who’s with me?  Any suggestions for exciting event ideas next time?

 

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