Stop Putin: Save Gas! by Hazel Henderson

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Bumper stickers popping up on best ways to defeat Putin are more creative — pointing the way to victory as overcoming global fossil addiction and speeding the Green Transition to the inclusive, knowledge-richer, sharing peaceful Solar Age!

Join Ethical Markets and over 40 cities worldwide in the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty! Our latest call is “STAND WITH UKRAINE“!  All our human family stands behind our Ukrainian members to affirm global human rights and democracies.

War is unacceptable as we seek wiser, cooperative paths to assure our common future on this planet.  We applaud the bravery of our Ukrainian colleagues and their leaders in teaching the world of the power of citizens and participatory democracies.  Join us!

The best news from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation global research team, to be released shortly:  This speedup of the global transition to solar, wind, all renewables, energy-efficient, circular societies is achievable now!  The abundance of these cheaper technologies harvest the virtually inexhaustible flow of daily photons from our Mother Star: the SUN (visual).  Ethical Markets’ Green Transition Scoreboard® annual reports since 2009 confirm this, with evidence also of the cumulative $10.3 trillion of private investments in global green sectors by green investors like many of us!

We applaud the vote of 141 country members of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution censuring Russia for violating the UN Charter.  Only five countries voted against this Resolution: Russia, Belarus, Eretria, Syria, and North Korea.  We also applaud the openness of member states of the European Union in favor of fast-tracking Ukraine’s entry into the Union, surely well-deserved!  Let’s fast-track this positive future for the EU and recognize its leadership on new indicators beyond GDP of positive human development in 2007 (see www.beyond-GDP.eu) in which we took part!

Stricter sanctions are revealing the criminal laundering of Russian money by Putin’s oligarchs into yachts, lavish real estate and other projects in London, New York, Florida, tax havens and other corrupting political activities. Truth and facts face propaganda efforts now dominating global media.  We all now live in ”Mediocracies and their Attention Economies”, whatever forms our governments take. Thus, all facts on corruption, money-laundering, hacks, and cybercrimes must be swiftly exposed.

Pro-peace activists should press their US House and Senate members to join our Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in calling for this ”Green Deal” and ending all violent activities and re-focus on all these creative strategies emerging in plain sight!  We quote many of our visionary leaders who advocate this greener path to global peace and prosperity — shared by all who agree that this fossil fuel addiction in North America and Europe has become a matter of national security:

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI says, “Americans now have the lived experience that renewables are good for national security” and safer for climate and human wellbeing. (BloombergGreen)

The Ukraine Call to Action From President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Latest news and analysis from the Reuters Events Oil & Gas Newsletter team,

Oil companies head for Russia’s exit door”.

This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats by Bill McKibben

Corporate Knights CEO Toby Heaps, we should “speed up the transition away from our fossil fuel dependency to heat pumps and electric cars.”

And our beloved colleague, best-selling author Vicki Robin, of “Your Money or Your Life” writes, “Swords into Solar for National Defense”.  Vicki adds: “National security now is energy independence.  The markets cannot solve our fossil fuel dependency at the scale and speed we need.  The only organization with a big enough budget, a disciplined, technical workforce, and a mandate to protect the homeland, is the US military.  The budget is already there. Our military is lavishly supported by Congress.  The respect is already there: the military is still the most trusted institution in the United States.  The ability to retrain hundreds of thousands of men and women to do a renewable retrofit of this nation is in the military’s command and control structure. [Read More]

Ethical Markets adds, as in my comments on Reuters webinar on Finance after COP26, that there is no shortage of money!  I reminded former Bank of England head, Mark Carney, and his Glasgow Finance group’s pledge of $130 trillion, that there was no reason to wait!  They could pressure their own central banks to shift to “Green QE“ instead of buying up dud mortgages and feeding asset bubbles, and join the IMF’s courageous head, Kristalina Georgieva, who issued grants for vaccines to suffering poorer countries, and support her and the IMF in a new issue of “Green SDRs“! (see World Bank Group Statement on War in Ukraine).

We recommend the creative festival at New York’s Carnegie Hall, organized by our longtime global Advisory Board member, Yul Anderson, President of the African-American Future Society and this coverage in TIME:

Future of Black America, from Yul Anderson, who adds “Our futures are intertwined and if the world allows 44 million Ukrainian lives to be at risk, then our futures are at risk-Black and White.”

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Let’s circulate all this good news!

~Hazel Henderson, Editor”