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Gary from NC
have you explored the idea of what life could be if money were made obsolete and the laws were changed to only a couple. harm no one, no one owns anything, and help one another?

Cheryl from MN
How can we protect our environment from these disasters, without harming our economy?

Richard from CA
How can a non patentable cancer cure get FDA approval without the usual $millions. See Yamamoto and GcMAF for example.

Mike from WA
How to hold these companies responsible? We have to develop new, renewable energy sources, and the existing companies have to contribute to the process- How?

Sue from WA
I think the reason the oil is not stopped is they want to continue to retrieve that oil and not lose it for themselves. They are worried about still getting it and getting their money, not saving the water or our coastline. I think this needs to be treated as a terrorist attack as we would if someone invaded our coast line (which they did). No more drilling allowed if they have no solution in line. They were saved under Bush admin $500,000 by not having to put in the "plug". Well, it will cost them a hell of a lot more now. I think with this delay they are making people angry to get the government to take over which means we will pay for their error. Is that their plan? People are crying for the government to take over, well are you aware that that means we bail out BP and take over the cost? BS. BP must bear the burden.

kirk from FL
Type your question in here Do you feel that the majority of people on the in the US, forget the rest of the planet, realize that if the oceans die, so do we?

Bob from NC
How does one go about breaking through the hard line of far-righters that man is not responsible for climate change?

victoria from CA
Type your question in here when can people realize that the waste in their own toilets can be fertilizing the land? when can people go thru drive thru with thier own plate instead of making more trash?

Raul from CO
What strategies have you found to be best for motivating and mobilizing citizens (specifically, union members, in my case) that have the most effect on influencing our representatives in Washington?

Rachael Savanyu from NY
What are two things I can change in my daily routine to be more earth-friendly?

Frank Spaeth from CA
When I listen to debates from both Progressives and Conservatives, I seem to find good intentions coming from each of these divergent perspectives. How do I find a constructive center viewpoint to promote real changes rather than just a continuation of adversarial arguments?

Patty from OR
I have an increasing awareness of the ecological problems we all face-water supply, pollution, global warming, etc. I have little or no faith in our current government or capitalist system. What can I do to affect change? I am unemployed and have very limited resources.

aaron from
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aaron from CT
how do we navigate the tension between "living with conviction" and making the compromises necessary to build coalitions and create political change?

Judy from ME
10% of the work force are nurses. The average nurse is a 50 yo woman. How do we galvanize them into some sort of cohesive action? Taking the proceeds of medical marijuana production and using it to support local organic foods would work for me. I think nurses could take the stand--first good food, not big pharma drugs.

Susan from MT
I am trying to make a difference here in my small community concerning the noise pollution coming from the train yard across the main road and trying to do something about the speed limit of 25 miles an hour on all our roads being inforced. Would your book give me tools and ideas to be effective with these kinds of things? Thanks for your reply. Susan

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Greg from NM
How do we address the need for energy in the near and long term future given the detrimental effects of fossil fuels in contributing to global warming and the needs of almost7 billion people around the globe, all of who contribute to carbon emissions along with domesticated animals?

Diana from VA
What can one person do about the oil spill?

Steven from GA
How do we get campaign finance reform enacted? I have some solutions myself! Go to www.abolishcorporatism.org

Claudia from MA
Type your question in here As I listen to the news about the oil catastrophe in the Gulf, I feel that no one has the answer to this. Therefore, no oil company has the right to drill for oil in our oceans unless they PROVE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, that they have the technology to avoid these disasters.

Teresa Bessett from WA
Hello Mr. Loeb, I have been an activist since I was a child but I am having a terrible time wrapping my head around the governments reasoning in awarding federal contracts and grants to oil companies who consistently net billions of dollars every year, no matter the economic climate. This catastrophe, though possibly the largest, is merely one of many, and will continue unless we decided otherwise. These disasters are a much needed wake up call, if we would only listen. Thank you for your time, but more importantly for who you are and what you do. I will be reading your book.

sheila from CA
. What would happen if the goverment said that they want to Nationalize the OIL INDUSTRY? How fast would BP clean up the oil spil? We must get off of using OIL and use alternative energy.

Sharon from TX
How can we promote and encourage further alternative energy development in our own states without having to wait for the slow wheels of government? I honestly believe if we wait for politicians the human race will become extinct.

Christine from OH
How can we get the Fed to step up and take charge of this unnatural disaster now - while still ensuring that BP will foot the bill?

Jake from OH
Stepping back and looking at all of our-empire-is-collapsing problems from the satellite view for a moment, it seems obvious that many of the most vital structural supports for our civilization (energy, agriculture, finance, etc.) are ready to collapse completely. No matter what is done by government or business to try to fix this mess, we will be left to preserve and rebuild our civilization and culture without their help. How should an activist and survivor adapt their "we can change this" philosophy when faced with worst case crisis scenarios?

Anita from CA
I am feeling overwhelmed! In Imperial county we have so many environmental issues affecting our communities. Our elected officials support projects that devastate our fragile desert ecosystem. Wind Zero, a dump place in West Morland, the New River, the list is huge, What can we do? Only a few of us care about what is really happening! By the way, we are still having many earthquakes......

Bob from NH
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Jessica from MN
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William from AZ
What is the government doing, besides nothing, to take away the efforts of BP and fixing the problem?

John from MN
Type your question in here: Can we as a nation distinguish between national pride and hubris?

Gail from NY
The oligarchs that run the show obviously knew the extent of devastation that would occur when the Deep Horizon blew up. Is their motivation greed or insanity?

David from VT
Our President is a student of Niebuhr whose philosophy was that the state can and will be immoral which seems to be the manner in which our President conducts his policy making. At what point does the moral man disengage when confronted by a president, who by all modern measurements, is as good as it gets?

Joyce from VA
Why is BP trying to cover up the exact amount of oil flowing into the Gulf? Is it just to keep people from knowing how bad it is OR does it have something to do with how much money they owe the US Government [us] for Royalty on that well?

Paul from IL
When will we find the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? Also, when will we find the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, or God/Jesus?

Patricia from WA
How can the envioronmentally conscious engage the average working person and get them to realize we all have a stake in ending our addiction to oil and waste?

Edward from MI
Type your question in hereOur biggest problem is the money exchanged for greed and not in the best interest of people who have no voice.

Tom from GA
Gandi opined that if everyone only did the little bit they could, it would be enough. There are so many imponderable problems many feel confounded. It occurs to me that all the great problems may be thought of as consequences of living beyond our means. If you accept this, then what to do is greatly simplified. I suggest that an assault in waste, with fife and drum would be rather fun. What do you think?

Acean from IN
How can citizens currently struggling to live under the "poverty line" impact impact social, environmental, and other political issues with little to no buying power in a capitalist democracy?

janie from
Type your question in here May I please just listen/read?

janie from CA
Type your question in here May I please just listen/read the conversation?

janie from CA
Type your question in here I just want to hear the conversation

mike from MI
How can we convince the IRS to audit the Government officials who used C Street as a tax shelter?

Alex from PA
How do you deal with the apparent fact that the pursuit of wealth and greed trumps everything including health and environmental concerns to the point that it threatens everything including the existence of the human race?

PETE from FL
Why do we allow money from private interest to buy and sell our government, including presidents? I am very cynical until that changes.

Art from
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Paul from IL
Why is Dickhead Cheney such a heartless and evil bastard? Does he possess a conscience or a soul?

Susan from NY
What do you suggest for activists such as myself to do in the nation we live in, regarding actually changing law and making those responsible for all the economic, racist, and global environmental issues occurring besides petitions, events, awareness and and protests?

Pookie from NC
Type your question in here The horrible spill in the Gulf and the prices of oil by the barrel and gasoline at the pump are not related. The spill is pumping millions and millions of barrels of oil out as we speak ...... wasting it ....... whereas the price of gasoline at the pump is declining. BP voluntarily took full responsibility for the disaster and its financial consequences. Why are Obama, Salazar and Napolitano wasting their time on this matter? .... the federal government is powerless and its engineers and creative thinkers are no better than the professionals at BP and Transocean. The Obama administration has no solutions to recommend, right?

Alfred from KY
Type your question in here As an ordinary citizen, I am devasted about the loss of "a way of life" for our Gulf of Mexico citizens. How can we assist these people who are losing everything?

Nancy from CA
What strategies can we use to talk to our leaders about the critical nature of change...how do we get their attention in a way that catches their ear and their hearts?

Alfred from KY
Type your question in here As one of many frustrated citizens, what can be done to preserve the way of life for many Gulf residents?

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marta from CA
How can we possibly save this world it is so fricked up and now... the whole gulf is dead or almost dead. All the animals the entire coast line. and bp and gov do nothing. how can we stop crying.

Crow from CA
Type your question in here Thanks Paul, so with a constant barrage of misinformation by corporate sponsored media how will the majority of American citizens become informed of the depth of this disaster?

Marta from CO
Will the ecosystem in the gulf, oceans and coastal areas ever recover from this "spill"? How will this effect the rest of the world ecologically?

Ellen from PA
Can this be the issue, the oil disaster, to bring us together to stand up and be heard in a way that we have not since the seventies? Is this the time? If it is, how shall we go about it? How do we educate and communicate with each other to outcry the corporately owned media?

Laurie from NY
Would a boycott of BP help or would a massive demonstration in Washington help to create a turn in the destructive path that our country is taking. Or both? How do we mobilize effectively against corporate greed and gluttony.

Tracie from CA
I heard that BP can stop the oil spill but doing so would mean they could not extract the remaining oil. Is it true that BP is only exploring ways to stop the spill that will allow them to have access to the remaining oil? If so, what does this say about the Obama Administration? Does BP and big oil really own us that much?

Susan from
Type your question in here: Why is more not being done by zoos and aquariums like Sea World to save what animals they can?

Susan from WV
Type your question in here: Do you think this oil gush can be stopped? I am beginning to believe it cannot be until it drains itself out. I would like to hear reassurance from you and the sense that we have any intelligent life on this planet.

Dexter from CO
I have copied the 3 best Qs from the list already asked: 1.Would we not be considering it an act of war if that leaking oil well belonged to Iran, Russia or Venezuela? Would we not be calling it a terrorist act if that oil well did indeed belong to one of the fore mentioned countries? 2. How could we organize a citizens movement to revoke the corporate charters of organizations involved in envronmentally destructive companies? is punishment of corporate personhood - even a corporate death penalty a moral line of pursuit? 3.I am often left breathless when John Q. Citizen is captured on TV regurgitating some blatant drivel that has been put out in the public arena, whether it be by the media or the government or the PR department of some corporation. "How can he be so shortsighted, so gullible and so uncritical in his thinking," I cry. Then I see children mimic the beliefs and attitudes of their parents. And it occurs to me that change starts on a very personal level. If we expect the powers that be to be accountable for the consequences of their actions, we need to model being moral, responsible citizens in our homes, our workplaces, and our communities. If we choose to be weasles and whiners, we have no right to expect more of our leaders.

Julian from MN
Why, with a 75% Majority, did we end up with a useless, mealy-mouthed Republican Health Care Reform Bill, and how can we stop anything like it from ever happening again?

Jonelle from MN
Type your question in here what can we as individual citizens do to stop further wells being drilled into the ocean floor until we are assured that protective measures for spills are created and certain?

Hank from MD
How can we counter the tremendous corporate dominance in the mass media? By contacting people face to face, in part- but what are other alternatives?

Sheila from OR
How can you expect anything to change when Congress is bought and PAID for by the lobbyists. If demonstrators become too effective..Remember Kent State and think "Blackwater".

Wilson from FL
Paul: Should we promote a 100% boycott for BP until they commit to pay for the Gulf disaster and a promise to stop exploring and drilling in the ocean again.

Chaitanya from
When will North Americans reduce their energy consumption [20 tons of CO2 per capita] to what is sustainable [2 tons per capita] and how? and when? Who will educate north Americans about their ecological debt?

alex calzaretta from CA
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Erin from OH
I FIRMLY believe that the change begins with me. What can ordinary citizens like myself do to create a real participatory democracy ?

Patricia Edwards from FL
Is there a plan to discover who was resposible for bypassing safety measures and will there ever be a criminal prosecution?

Lee from MI
How can we convince President Obama that offshore drilling for oil or natural gas is not the solution to out long-term energy independence as a nation?

Larry from MA
I find my sense of frustration with Washington and politics as usual to be overwhelming. How do you avoid becoming depressed when trying to be an engaged and progressive citizen?

Carol from HI
I am often left breathless when John Q. Citizen is captured on TV regurgitating some blatant drivel that has been put out in the public arena, whether it be by the media or the government or the PR department of some corporation. "How can he be so shortsighted, so gullible and so uncritical in his thinking," I cry. Then I see children mimic the beliefs and attitudes of their parents. And it occurs to me that change starts on a very personal level. If we expect the powers that be to be accountable for the consequences of their actions, we need to model being moral, responsible citizens in our homes, our workplaces, and our communities. If we choose to be weasles and whiners, we have no right to expect more of our leaders.

CONSUELO from TX
Type your question in here Hopefully, the American pople are NOT going to pay for this MESS at the pump! Everytime something goes on for their stupid mistakes, the tax payer pays more! ! ! Let the people involved with the issue pay for their own mistakes! They are all mulitmillioners, that can easily pay for their own stupid mistakes, and STOP them in thier GREED! This mistake proves that there is a need to STOP AND THINK!!!

molly from WI
what is the capitol of ohio?

charles from CA
how could we organize a citizens movement to revoke the corporate charters of organizations involved in envronmentally destructive companies? is punishment of corporate personhood - even a corporate death penalty a moral line of pursuit?

James from OR
I fear that BP will be deemed "too big to fail" and that we taxpayers will be on the hook again for a needless catastrophe. Another Black Swan that was certainly foreseeable. When will we ever stand up to the corporations and say NO, dammit! Where is our outrage? Why are we Americans so pathetic?

Clay from CT
What do you use as a moral compass if not God?

David from FL
How come the media is not showing how this is changing and taking away their income along the Gulf shore.

Hugh from MA
Since big corporations and the big governments they control are so greedy, insensitive, irresponsible and unresponsive to the common practical concerns of most citizens who lack the financial resources needed to compete with them and to institute common sense policies and practices, who is providing financial support that would enable local community initiatives to establish and develop self-sufficient, sustainable economies that are independent of the unsustainable globalized system?

Farrell from NC
I have read that the Republicans are wanting BP to just pay for the first five days of clean up and the American Tax Payer kick in money to help. Is there any truth to this, and if so how can that be stopped? BP should be solely responsible.

Ed from NY
With the lack of responsibility shown by both major parties in terms of the oil companies, how will supporting either oner of them make the real changes that are required to save our planet?

Vladimir Druzhshchienschkyy from GA
I often see many writing that this current oil spill crisis is the result of captialism. This is not the case. It is the result of politicians being influenced by lobbists, poor regulation, and Enron like corporate tactics. What concrete steps with specific plans of action do you propose to address these issues? Further what do you propose to make the news media more independent from corporate influences such as that from BP?

Gina from FL
With all these oil drillings that are scheduled to happen, I feel that this planet will be uninhabitable in about 10 years, what good is money if you are very sick or does the right want to end the world early.

Tom from OK
Would we not be considering it an act of war if that leaking oil well belonged to Iran, Russia or Venezuela? Would we not be calling it a terrorist act if that oil well did indeed belong to one of the fore mentioned countries?

David from NC
Capitalism has gotten us into this environmental nightmare. Why should we think that a capitalistic economy can be consistent with environmental protection?

Elaine from CA
It is horrifying that we are being fed lie, after lie thru the "media." All in the guise of "mistake or mis-spoke, or misunderstood." How do we reinstate "fairness in media" and stop "opinion and entertainment shows" for masquerading as legit news?

Julia from NJ
Type your question in here Why do we let our government, (past and present), get away with so much? What can we really do about it?

Ben Fetterman from MA
A lot of times I get into a funk and feel that everything I do is not changing a single thing. I.E Attending rallies, emailing Congress, raising money for issues and politicians. Do you have a remedy to get me out of this funk?

drew from VT
Do politicians really listen when we email or call them?