Free Public Transit

The beginning of the end of autosprawl.

  • Around the World
  • Home

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Climate catastrophe is not coming...



It is here
Posted by fpteditors at 11:55 AM
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
Follow @FreePublicTrans Follow @FreePublicTrans Follow @tarifazeroorg

U.S. Fare-Free Network

  • -Autosprawl Welfare
  • -facebook
  • -library
  • -Officials and Candidates
  • -success
  • -video
  • -website (U.S.)
  • California - North
  • California - South
  • DC - Washington
  • FL - Jacksonville
  • IL - Chicago
  • MI - Upper Peninsula
  • Michigan
  • New England
  • New Jersey
  • Northwest USA
  • NY - New York City
  • Ohio
  • PA - Philadelphia
  • PA - Pittsburgh
  • The South!
  • TX - Austin
  • UT - Salt Lake City
  • Vermont
  • WA - Seattle
  • Wisconsin

FPT Advocates - U.S.

  • DC - Washington - M. Yglesias
  • FL - Miami - Jordan, Barriero
  • MO - St. Louis - Urban Workshop
  • NC - Asheville - Erynion
  • NC - Asheville - H. Paul Lillebo
  • NC - Charlotte - John Grooms
  • OH - Dayton - Harvey Tuck
  • UT - Salt Lake City - David Alston
  • VA - Charlottesville - the Mayor
  • WI - Madison Erik Olin Wright (prof.)

FPT - Leaders / Authors

  • Adam Butler
  • Alex Berthelsen
  • Alex Ihnen
  • Alexander Baron
  • Bob Jeffrey - CfFPT
  • Charles Komanoff
  • Colin Fox - (SSP)
  • Dave Olsen
  • Frank Fisher
  • George Haikalis
  • J.H. Crawford
  • Katie Alvord
  • Ted Kheel

Twitter / ClimateSignals

Loading...

Year 2014 - Carbon Mkt Bailout

Sub-prime carbon offsets precipitate a banking crisis. Click here

Twitter / CTMag1

Loading...

Total Pageviews

About This Blog

The Free Public Transit Blog and freepublictransit.org are products of the virtual community advocating fare-free urban public transportation. We collect and publish opinion, articles, data, and/or criticism. We do not accept paid advertising or financial donations. For material original to the blog and site there are no rights reserved. You can contact us at info@freepublictransit.org .

Follow by Email

Take Action!

Take Action!

Get the bumper sticker!

Cost of free transport

Ireland: A typical car-based commuter spends about €1,500 a year on fuel just getting to and from work. Free transit has been implemented in some locations for a .6% increase in sales tax. One would have to spend €250,000 a year to pay in sales tax the €1,500 he/she is currently paying in fuel.

CFTE public transportation facts

Americans living in transit-intensive areas save $22 billion each year by using public transportation. [more]

Autos on Welfare

In the U.S., the current system of autos and sprawl exists only by virtue of heavy taxpayer subsidy and the deferring of external costs. If the oil and auto companies had to pay to clean up just a small part of their mess, they would quickly go bankrupt.

occupy wall street

occupy wall street
click image for website

Popular Posts

  • A clear presentation of the end of fossil-fuel
    http://www.postcarbon.org/ http://cluborlov.blogspot.com http://energybulletin.net http://culturechange.org http://transitioncu...
  • Your social security turned over to #oil industry
    Washington politicians think the main-stream media can sell anything to the U.S. public. If gasoline prices go up, what do you think is the...
  • Brazil: mass movement for free public #transit
    Links dos eventos das cidades participantes: Guarulhos - SP:  http://www.facebook.com/ events/199441550153057/ Rio de Janeiro - R...
  • Oil and Coal driving Cadillac, collecting welfare
    Unearthing the True Cost of Fossil Fuels : TreeHugger : "Industry gets tax breaks, subsidies, military support in volatile regions, the righ...
  • One thousand Paul Krugmans cannot save capitalism from the 1%
    Quantitative easing is creating money to lend to big banks for free, so they can lend at high rates and increase their capital stock. Why? ...
  • How can we stop the #oil and #gas wars?
    Oil and natural-gas wars are consuming tremendous amounts of resources. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has been estimated at USD 1 trillion in...
  • 1% must have totalitarianism to protect fossil fuel lines
    Times Of Nigeria : "Nigeria’s main oil militants operating in Niger Delta region, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)...

Egyptian support for #occupyoakland

Search This Blog

Loading...

International Links

  • -- Egyptian Courage
  • -- Libyan Courage
  • --- international site
  • Africa
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Canada - British Columbia
  • Canada - Calgary
  • Canada - Montreal
  • Canada - Toronto
  • China
  • Czech Republic - Carbusters
  • Europe
  • France
  • Greece
  • India
  • Latin America
  • Malaysia
  • New Zealand
  • Oil puppets, Koch Brothers, see your future
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Scotland
  • Scotland - E. Dunbartonshire
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • Turkey
  • UK - Bristol
  • UK - Campaign Blog
  • UK - Campaign Research Site
  • UK - Campaign Site

Featured Blogs

  • Business Insider
    Cyprus' Finance Minister Claims A Mystery Asian Investor Wants To Buy $665 Million Worth Of Bonds
  • Paul Krugman
    The Microfoundation Thing (Wonkish)
  • George Monbiot
    Mythologists of the Glen
  • Pollution Free Cities
    Is Traffic Congestion the Main Cause of Car Accidents?
  • Climate Denial Crock of the Week
    Ocean Acidifying at Faster Rate than in Past 300 Million Years
  • Climate Progress
    Bombshell: You Can’t Slow Projected Warming With Gas, You Need ‘Rapid and Massive Deployment’ of Zero-Carbon Power
  • Early Warning
    European vs US Unemployment Rates
  • Death by Car» Capitalism and Carmageddon
    The People’s Front
  • RD Wolff Articles
    Above and Below the Middle Class (Podcast)
  • Carbusters » Blog
    Carfree Day in Mumbai
  • Man's Greatest Mistake

Climate Change and Earthquakes

  • Conservation Value Notes
  • Guardian - UK - August 2007
  • Guardian - UK - Sept. 2009
  • JGR - 2002
  • NASA And USGS Researchers
  • New Scientist - 2006
  • New Scientist - 2009
  • Sierra Club
  • Wired 2009

Valley Action Network

Valley Action Network

Comedy

  • Four modes to Manhattan
  • Save the traffic!

How to identify trolls on #ows and #agw

In the #occupywallstreet campaign, and #climatechange struggle, we are plagued by provocateurs and agents of oil and the 1% which attack from the outside and from within. Here are some tips on how to identify them.
  • high tweet/follower ratio on twitter (amazingly useful metric)
  • super-radical terminology with confusing array of targets
  • insistence on moral absolutes, one must be for/against x
  • focus on divisions in the 99%
  • focus on any path (money, law, celebrities) except mass unity 
  • obsession with corporate media coverage
  • focus on conspiracy or implying explosive hidden truth
  • asserting belief required for understanding
  • asking for money (unless homeless, then give)
  • saying "I support your cause, but..." (if they really support, it's their cause)
  • always criticizing 99% leadership or persistently negative
  • ad hominem attacks, or scatology (to make new people give up in disgust)
  • generalized misanthropy - "all people are greedy," "all politicians are crooks"
  • claiming all the answers are in one document or candidate
  • blaming government for everything
  • never directing comments against the banks or oil industry
These characteristics apply to both internal and external trolls. Use common sense and trust your instincts. There are always honest people who are misled and temporarily fall for scams. Some are just people trying to sell something.  Just keep shining daylight on the subject and the trolls will scatter.

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (27)
    • ►  March (1)
      • Ocean Acidifying at Faster Rate than in Past 300 M...
    • ►  February (13)
      • Add to the list of #autosprawl externalities: $36....
      • A clear presentation of the end of fossil-fuel
      • Mixed messages on public #transit reflect split in...
      • Tea Party acts "crazy" to cover up #oil agenda
      • Your social security turned over to #oil industry
      • Tallinn referendum on free #transit
      • Oil price killing economy so congress tries to kil...
      • Oil and Coal driving Cadillac, collecting welfare
      • Brazil: mass movement for free public #transit
      • 1% must have totalitarianism to protect fossil fue...
      • World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars-...
      • Americans want public #transit. "just get it done!...
      • One thousand Paul Krugmans cannot save capitalism ...
    • ►  January (13)
      • Why the 1% cannot tolerate democracy
      • Misuse of oil will lead to massive human die-off
      • People of Bahrain have tremendous courage
      • #Oil companies are on welfare
      • Cars kill, in, oh, so many ways.
      • Brussels, Belgium campaign for free public transpo...
      • U.S. to send its pit-bull to attack Iran
      • Nigeria revolt shows fragility of oil-based wester...
      • In Brazil, the fight against bus fare hikes and fo...
      • Tallinn Offers Free Public Transportation to All R...
      • The private auto, whatever it burns, is a wasteful...
      • The 1% is splitting over oil. Thank you, #occupywa...
      • Split widens in 1% over #transit as oil trolls hur...
  • ►  2011 (148)
    • ►  December (12)
      • Is the Tea Party anti-business?
      • Methane plumes 1 kilometer in diameter, shooting m...
      • How can we stop the #oil and #gas wars?
      • George Monbiot – No Bail-Out for the Planet
      • In current system, #peakoil equals #peakfood
      • Why #occupywallstreet must succeed, and soon. Corp...
      • #occupy responds to evictions - shuts down ports
      • U.S. oil dependency raising risk of world war
      • There is no housing crisis. There are more empy ho...
      • #occupyhomes - video - eviction victims fight back...
      • Where Is The 22 Trillion? | The Forest a Progressi...
      • Why #collapse will not stop
    • ►  November (11)
      • AutoSprawl triggered financial collapse
      • Mother Nature makes a comment on consumerism
      • Thanks to #occupywallstreet, some anti-oil crumbs ...
      • Autosprawl => energy waste => energy wars => dict...
      • A better world is possible
      • Watch as more and more corporations diverge from o...
      • Auckland could be a leader of world cities
      • U.S. oil desperation increases
      • Tripoli, Lebanon, 13-November, Car-Free Day
      • AAA knows, it's not just your car that's broke, it...
      • 1% depending on misdirection of #occupywallstreet
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (18)
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (9)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (13)
  • ▼  2010 (141)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (11)
    • ►  October (9)
    • ►  September (14)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (16)
    • ▼  June (10)
      • Asheville Transit: Broken Promises of Improved Bus...
      • UK National FPT Campaign - Research site
      • Climate catastrophe is not coming...
      • China - Huantai County considering free public tra...
      • Wisconsin - Young people make free transit work
      • Amy Huang makes the case for free public transport...
      • Free Public Transit saves money -- according to ho...
      • UK - Campaign for free public transport expands
      • People die, car production continues
      • US Youth not in love with the car
    • ►  May (13)
    • ►  April (12)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (11)
  • ►  2009 (152)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (22)
    • ►  September (22)
    • ►  August (20)
    • ►  July (14)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (13)
    • ►  March (12)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2008 (196)
    • ►  December (17)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (12)
    • ►  September (21)
    • ►  August (21)
    • ►  July (19)
    • ►  June (21)
    • ►  May (14)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (17)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2007 (13)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
Simple template. Template images by luoman. Powered by Blogger.