The thing we dare not speak of - revolution

James Hansen.

Civil disobedience has been discussed Beneath the Wisteria, but never revolution.

But now, it seems, any response that is going to have an impact will be just that, a revolution.

The profit and growth machinery of the rather brutish capitalistic machinery is such that it seems it will only ever be slowed by something equally brutal, a revolution.

James Hansen, who voluntarily ended his career with NASA to allow him unimpeded freedom of thought and action to concentrate on climate change advocacy, is contemplating a legal challenge to the U.S. Government for failing to act on climate change on behalf of younger generations.

In a story headed: “The only way to stop climate change now may be revolution”, Quartz said discussed a paper presented at the American Geophysical Union that called for: “Environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups”.