yesterday i was at the london climate camp meeting and social. it was a packed day of discussion, networking and plenty of fun. discussions about the 'rolling blockade' to greet any attempts to build aa new coal fired power station also really started to take shape - as all of the small groups we split into seemed to agree on the main core features and also came up with a few fantastic ideas, and i'm guessing that the other neighbourhoods who are also meeting before the manchester gathering later this month will also come up with something similar.

I also got a chance to start a discussion about how to talk about and motivate people to move towards a total change of system - basically how to get people to reject capitalism without them realising that's what they are doing. it also became clear that this might be way of persuading a lot of people who just won't listen to current climate messages to act on climate - again probably without realising that's what they're doing. these people are the 'prospectors' and 'settlers'.

the things is that now we've got an urgent and intellectual reason for action the will convince the pioneers (climate messages) and now security and esteem reasoning based partly on climate and the failure of growth based market economy with finite resources AND a solution that can be presented differently to fit in with the needs and motivations of each group (transition towns). not only that but as i said in the intro to this blog - i believe that the potential source of preventing runaway climate change is also likely to be a solution that can help people avoid it's worst effects, as well as be happier, healthier etc - it's a win whichever way things go.