The 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court conservative majority on February 28, 2022, questioned the legality of limiting carbon emissions to address climate catastrophe. Certainly, Wynn bruce chose self-immolation by fire on Earth Day 2022 at the steps of a conservative-led court to send a critically important message to anyone who would listen. I am listening to Wynn Bruce and am devoting this post to his life-affirming decision. This was a call to all, reminding us that we collectively choose to ignore impending doom’s certainty. This was not a suicide, this was a signal to each of us that inaction condemns this planet to certain extinction. This is not rhetorical excess, the fuse has already been lit.
By 1973, the fossil-fuel industry had already known that catastrophic climate change was a scientifically proven fact in the face of inaction; however, the scientists working from within the fossil-fuel juggernauts were silenced before this information could be made available. Positions of power among corporations leading the Fortune 10 would lose profits if truths were told. In 1973, a gradual change could have allowed all involved parties to move carefully and deliberately over several decades to prevent what is now imminent. The 11th hour has passed. History will not judge us kindly for our inaction, each of us needs to accept the responsibility for setting the Earth on fire. Bruce Wynn knew this, you should too. Self-immolators are prophets.
Capitalism has no mechanism for preventing global warming. Our billionaire class would never contribute the funds. The planet’s richest man has just spent 44 billion dollars in cash to own a social-media diversion, our short attention span prefers diversion. Do not expect him to spend a fraction of that cash to reduce carbon emissions. Even if he were inclined to lean in that direction, the highly conservative Supreme Court does not speak for the future generations who will be incinerated by proxy.
Civics is an obsolete word. In 1973, it could still find currency among an educated public and an enlightened electorate. Civic responsibility is as solidly demeaned as the despised word “woke.” Something to smirk about on what is now the social outlet owned by the planet’s most wealthy asshole. Twitter is a place to play your fiddle while waiting for mega deaths to become burning banalities. A 6-3 majority at the Supreme Court of the world’s most influential indecision makers assures that those of us who appreciate the caliber of Bruce Wynn’s character are doomed to silence. Civics is as dead as our future generations.
I do not mince words, nor do I wish to fiddle among Neros.
Thanks for reading.
billziegler1947 
Dear Bill,
I have discussed in great detail all of these issues in my extensive and analytical post entitled “๐ฌ Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: ๐ง Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity ๐ฆ “, which has been greatly improved and expanded, and which you can easily locate from the Home page of my blog.
Gathering all the diverse and important strands together in the grand finale of the said post, I have attempted to sum up and reflect deeply the state of affairs with hard truths in the said post, especially in the last section named “Denouement: Democracy, Education, Legislation & Sustainability“, which has also been expanded.
The various issues that you have highlighted aside, there is a great deal that can be analyzed and revealed regarding where we have been and what awaits us. The final section of this said post, named “Denouement: Democracy, Education, Legislation & Sustainability“, specifically discusses those matters. Please kindly let me highlight an excerpt from the said section as follows:
I look forward to your much esteemed thoughts and feedback there.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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Dear Bill,
Continuing the spirit and tenet of your excellent post here, I would like to add that we humans are often too absorbed in our own affairs to notice two big elephants in the room: speciesism and anthropocentricism. Both are highly entrenched, and both are very widespread and often unacknowledged forms of prejudice, discrimination and bigotry. Despite years of fleshing out the (conceptual, philosophical, ethical, practical and/or social) framework in examining the possibility or plausibility of environmentalism meeting the needs and expectations of all humanity to help us to survive as a species, fundamental progress is still far too slow.
As you probably already know, we are already in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinction. If you are interested, the main issue is twofold: speciesism and anthropocentricism. Until we critically deal with the main issue, even environmentalism in all its diversity may not suffice to turn things around, as discussed in my multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary post entitled “SoundEagle in Debating Animal Artistry and Musicality” at
Being simultaneously witty and serious about a number of outstanding issues, the said post actually ventures far beyond whatever its title may suggest or mean to any reader, especially in the very long “Conclusions” section. Please note the ISEA Model that I have devised to analyse and describe the Instrumental, Spiritual, Pro-Environment and Pro-Animal/Plant perspectives.
Like nonbinary sexual identity and transgender issues, interspecies interactions and communications are also very special in that they can and tend to transcend many boundaries and expectations imposed by human customs and belief systems. Perhaps you have heard of or studied such disciplines as zoo-anthropology or anthrozoology?
I welcome your input and am curious to know what you make of my said post. Given your very own backgrounds, interests, insights and expertise, I am certainly very keen and curious about what you will make of my said post entitled “SoundEagle in Debating Animal Artistry and Musicality“, and I look forward to the pleasure of perusing your esteemed feedback there.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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Dear Bill,
Indeed! Wynn Bruce, one of our fellow Buddhists and most ardent environmental activists has recently passed away by sacrificing and burning himself to death outside the US Supreme Court on Earth Day (22 April 2022) in protest of climate inaction and of the court’s decision on the case of West Virginia versus EPA, a case that could limit or revoke the ability of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, for the conservative majority on the court has indicated that they may do so. Please read the following for more details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Wynn_Bruce
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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Very glad that you have been following Wynn Bruce. Most people would not even give a shrug.
Making it illegal to act proactively to prevent a certain climate catastrophe is as twisted an evil as I can imagine. Thanks for the details, SoundEagle
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Bill, I fear that Wynn Bruce’s protest will go under-reported, buried beneath the daily diversions designed to grab our attention. I continue crying to the wind to wake the dead.
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Thank you, Rosaliene. Making it illegal to prevent an imminent catastrophe is as twisted an evil as I can imagine.
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billziegler1947 is not about a Bill Ziegler who was born in 1947. Not about him; it is a vehicle to provide support for the downtrodden and the dishonored โ such as Mother Earth. I am merely the driver. Unfortunately, simultaneous attacks of Crohn’s, psoriasis, and writer’s block have kept Bill on the sidelines. At the moment, he is feverishly writing about Catastrophic Climate Collapse. This reblog serves as a necessary prologue to the return of billziegler1947, vegan and climate activist.
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