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How can anyone w-r-i-t-e music on sinking Titanic? Playing music on sinking Titanic is the best thing to do, but writing seems difficult.

There are other things to do.

Halfhearted EU climate package decisions in December 2008 proof that the old lobby forces are still stronger than the evidence of the species’ interest in major political change. We are still not loud enough to shout up to the captain’s brigde that they’d better watch out where they’re driving that luxurious steamboat. Check this video.

If everyday business keeps us in the machine rooms at the bottom of Titanic, the choir for change can’t be heard. The election of Obama changed the feeling for a while. He seems to stand for migrating benevolent humans. He’s on the captain’s bridge of one shipwrecked country, influential nonetheless.

Climate Policy will be the most decisive realm of politics in the next months and years. Check out this Climate Policy Library with a lot of serious material, instructive links and hopefully some constructive interactive discussion about the priorities of our time.

You can also find a report I wrote about Climate Policy in Times of Financial Crisis.

For a collection of climate change links click here .

Another thing to do: skip convenience.

Sooner or later everybody will be forced to find the natural balance of expenses and gains, even the ones that stand on the sinking Titanic and claim it’s all a lie, since their feet are still all dry. Of all human achievements, convenience isn’t necessarily an acquisition, it seems to be opposing life. Why drive when you could walk for half an hour? It’s a luxurious physical state to walk for half an hour, not mentioning a whole hour. Walking is one of many examples. If you ever playfully tried to find out which daily convenience makes you happy by omitting one after the other, you probably found out that hardly any convenience wants to be sustained from this perspective.