Program: The Crisis of Climate and Democracy
Speaker: Marshall Saunders
In early 2007, Mr. Saunders was trained by Vice President Al Gore to give The Climate Project slide show. During that year, he gave the slide show 43 times to 2,700 people. He is deeply concerned about the future of civilization, and was surprised to learn that people actually know know what to do. However, it is one thing to know what to do, and quite another thing to deliver it in a democracy. In conversations with hundreds of people following his presentations, Mr. Saunders saw how quickly people went from denial to resignation. It's not resignation about having the solutions, about knowing what to do, but rather resignation about whether or not human beings will ever get it together enough to apply the solutions. Mr. Saunders realized that he had control of the resignation of at least one human being, himself; so he began to organize citizens to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power and to apply solutions to the crisis of climate and democracy.
About the Speaker:
Marshall Saunders initiated drug testing programs in nine school districts in Southern CA. He taught the book "The Road Less Traveled," in Donovan State Prison. Founded Rotary Club Leningrad, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded the Coronado Texas Hold Em Poker Club and the Coronado Friday Meditation Group. He was instrumental in the survival and expansion of microcredit lenders in a dozen countries of Latin America and Southern Asia. He is the Founder of Grameen de la Frontera in Sonora, Mexico which has provided self-employment loans to over 8,000 women. He is the Founder and President of Citizens Climate Lobby.
ENOUGH!