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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at 4pm New York City Time
That’s the time of the next live online meeting of The Saners, the Gandhi-inspired growing movement to save the Earth and build a more humane and sustainable civilization for our children.
We welcome new and existing members. If you are not yet a member, and want to be a part of this peaceful but assertive movement, use THIS LINK to sign up for our email list.
The Saners is still a small movement (just topping 300 signed up members) but growing. (I also have 1,800 followers on Medium, many of whom may be “silent” Saners.) We are aware that some of the most successful movements succeeded because they had a just and popular cause, and because they knew or learned how to run an effective movement. Successful movements CAN (and tend to) begin small. For example, the ousting of Serbian dictator Milosevic began with just 5 college students.
A Positive Movement
We, as a movement, believe we have no enemies. We recognize that the world is dominated by systems and people that treat the planet as a mere resource for generating power and wealth. Those systems and the people who support them are foolish and the destruction must be stopped. But we see us as saving foolish people from themselves.
We are convinced that hedge fund managers and oil company executives (like the rest of us) don’t actually want to doom their grandchildren to struggling for survival on a ruined Earth. In fact, we are pretty sure of this. But that seems like an abstraction to them, and they focus on their immediate challenges — which is the next quarterly profit.
We intend to open their eyes while also sabotaging their efforts through all kinds of non-cooperation. We will also be loud and persistent — and immensely creative, even humorous! — in spreading our messages.
Our (Nominal) Objective
The objective of The Saners movement is to prevent climate collapse. More specifically:
