Fabian Unger, the Vienna-based artist known as The Sad Gardener, is my kinda "Song and Dance Man." His "Climate Justice" song and dance are just too perfect for words. As soon as I saw and heard it I thought: This should be one of the "acts" in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. You know, when they pause the floats or bands so they can perform for the cameras and the hosts can talk about them.  Get a marching band load of people of all ages and let them march and dance-- just like Mr. Unger-- in the parade to this music.  During the break, the dancing/singing/marchers can hand out roses to the crowd on both sides of the street before reassembling and doing it all over again.

As for the video, wait for the dancing... because it's worth it.

If you've been reading this blog, you know Greta Thunberg amazes me. For such a tiny little thing, she stands taller and stronger and braver than any of us when she speaks to power about the rapidly declining health of Gaia. And she does it without anger. Or a gun or a knife. 

I want to be like her.

But like Billy Jack, sometimes "I just go berserk!" 

I know, I need counseling.  But I suspect by the time I'm "cured," it will be too late for Gaia. 

Meet Matt Seaholm. He's the proud face of the insidious war on banning the banning of plastic bags.  As reported in The Intercept, the executive director of the American Progressive Bag Alliance is 'unapologetic in his antagonism of environmental groups that have been calling attention to "the ban on the ban." In Texas, Seaholm, the former national director of the Koch brothers-led Americans for Prosperity, positioned himself as the enemy of environmentalists.

​'“They hate what we’re doing,” Seaholm told his plastics industry colleagues at a recent conference with a mischievous grin. “We wear this as a badge of honor.” The fact that environmental groups oppose the APBA’s tactics, Seaholm added, is evidence that his lobbying group “must be doing something right.”'

42 percent of Americans now live in states where they can’t pass local bans on plastics' thanks to his efforts and those of other Big Plastic lobbyists. 

Say what? 

Seaholm derided the attempts at banning plastics as “primarily driven by emotion.”

​Yeah, that and science and evidence. To quote Smokey Robinson, I second that emotion.