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11/19/2013 1:37:55 AM

El Morya: The Song of Your Heart

el moryaThanks to Mike Quinsey.

The Song of Your Heart, Ascended Master, El Morya’s Weekly Message ~ November 05 – 12, 2013.

Received by Julie Miller, November 05, 2013

Each of you has a precious melody that is unique and equally special, and this precious melody dear ones is the song your heart sings when you are in the Presence of God. Accept that your own presence is beautiful and divine and as you walk along your path that has led you onto a spiritual journey, you discover you have entered a more complete Inner Knowing of God’s Love and you have experienced God’s Love in many corners of your life and within the living and breathing world around you.

As you become more aware of God’s Presence in your life, you also become more aware of any one part of you that still holds mistrust towards God and this new awareness provides you with the opportunity to explore these areas of yourself and in time with love and care from you, you will learn what is needed to increase your level of trust and faith in God.

Fear is common when you first step forward into God’s Light. You step forward because you love God and you have longed for the moment to become ONE with His Light and Love, yet there is a part of you that fears letting go completely, trusting God with your life and journey. Don’t worry much on this dear ones, as it is quite common and a necessary step in your spiritual development and growth. When you let go of your fears and of the doubts your Ego creates your soul becomes more connected with your whole self that is very much alive and vibrant with vital light energy.

For a long time many dear souls that share your Earth have lived in a perceived state of being separated from God. Even in your current modern era your bodies have become attuned to the practical aspects that life has for you. Because of your fast paced world it is harder for you to recognize the existence of miracles and mysteries because your awareness has been dormant for a long time. As a result, your ability to perceive God’s Light and Love that has always been an integral part of each waking day is dimmed until you begin to consciously make an effort to raise your consciousness and awareness and begin opening your whole self in trust and faith to God’s Presence.

Many dear souls wonder how can they improve their trust and faith in God, and how can they let go of their fears that will suddenly come out when they begin to follow the Will of God. Understand dear ones, living in trust and faith in God and His Divine Presence is not something you try out of whim, it requires daily acceptance of His Presence in every area of your life. Stretching your awareness beyond your normal capacity will create growing pains, but the expansion of your awareness is necessary not just for your ability to recognize God’s Presence but to be more self-aware.

The moment your journey takes a path that leads to a spiritual life, a door to the divine suddenly becomes open. As you make your way through this door you will explore and discover new abilities, skills and strengths that will help raise your intuitive level of perception and your consciousness rises to new and wondrous heights. As you rise to new heights of awareness, you also find the necessity of purifying yourself through spiritual cleansings and clearings more often from the debris that prevented you from recognizing your full divine nature.

When you realize your purification has begun, God will light a path that was once previously hidden. Through certain circumstances within your current relationships or that cause a flux in your emotions and feelings you recognize this as a change. As you move through the changes, you are brought back to your soul’s unique ONENESS with God. At this point dear ones, any part of yourself that housed fear, doubt or second-guessed where your path was leading to is illuminated with God’s Light, providing a new path with fresh directives. As you move into the Light God has provided you to follow, the old painful memories that will surface are released and you will at a steady pace find yourself freed from emotional hindrances that created the reasons for your previous mistrust in God.

Through each turn and passage along your journey, eventually you become free of many heavy emotions and burdens that you have been carrying for a very long time. As you free yourself from burdens of events and situations that have long since passed, your beautiful spirit is renewed and you are provided with new and aspiring opportunities to branch out in new and exciting directions. The more you believe in your journey and trust in God, the more Hope and Faith becomes a constant companion. As you learn to shed the fears you previously held of trusting yourself completely under God’s care, you come to realize the profound depth of God’s Love for each of you and this love has never wavered. When you choose to live your life within the sanctity of God’s Love, blessings will be fruitful and they will enlighten you and heal you through the radiant outpouring of His Divine Heart as He blesses each and every of His Children and the Earth which you live.

Because of the unstable flux of changes that are felt by energy and vibrations, often your emotions become intense and at times you will feel it’s not possible to be positive about anything and all that enters your mind frame are negative thoughts and your self-talk degenerates. During times like these dear ones, what is needed is God’s Healing Presence. Ask for God, speak to Him with an open heart and open mind, seek healing through His Light and know His Love will heal you from the depths of your soul and mend all the pain and sadness you have been carrying.

Comprehend dear ones, love is more tangible that you may realize. Love comes into your life through many guises. Love can be felt through a comforting hug, a friend or family member wishing you goodwill, through prayer love is given and felt and love is felt by a beloved animal friend and as you can see dear ones; love is expressed through many actions without using words yet the power and feeling is incredible.

We see too often many dear souls trying to perfect their physical appearance, or trying to perfect another aspect of themselves instead of focusing on seeing themselves as already complete as they are. As you are able to hold onto God’s Presence into all areas of your life you, including the difficult moments you come to realize how much you actually trust in God and that lack of faith in Him came from your own lack of faith in yourself. Trust yourself, and have faith in the direction your path is taking you to. Continue cultivating your inner connection with God and your ONENESS with His Presence will sustain you through each good time and every bad time.

Having a tight connection with God and being aware of His Divine Presence in each area of your life will provide comfort and support during the most trying of times and nourishment when life has given you a difficult obstacle to overcome. Understand dear ones, the stronger your connection with God, the greater possibility of receiving His blessings, healing and Grace.

When you find yourself stumbling down a painful path filled with despair where you feel hopeless, it’s important for you to connect with other dear souls that are genuinely supportive, loving and caring. When you are willing to ask another dear soul for help even if that help is simply listening, and they comply their combined actions of being willing, listening, and compassionate will help activate and strengthen the presence of love in your own self from the dear soul you have turned to for comfort and support.

The divine light that is an accepted part of love begins to melt any shadows of despair and discord. The presence of God’s Love is always available dear ones, you simply have to reach for Him and allow His Light to be the anchor of love you have always been seeking. God’s love has the power of transforming the worst pain if you simply allow His Presence to enter each area of your life. It is through this allowance that your Hope and Faith in God and in yourself returns and His return is felt deeply within your heart, and your mind and body becomes lighter and clearer. As you allow yourself to feel God’s Presence into each area of your life you will literally feel all the new that is aiding to the rise of your consciousness that will propel new blessings that are beyond imagination and these blessings that are to come dear ones will be gifts from God and of the Love that He has bestowed upon each of you.

And so it is…

I AM Ascended Master, El Morya through Julie Miller


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11/19/2013 1:39:22 AM

Aisha North: The Manuscript of Survival – Part 371



Aisha North Manuscript of SurvivalThe Manuscript of Survival – Part 371, channeled by Aisha North, November 18, 2013 at http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

As many of you have noticed, the pace of disturbance has reached fever pitch in many, and rightly so, as from this day forward, there will be no holds barred. This may sound discouraging and even fearsome to some, but trust us when we say that you will not suffer unduly. And just what do we mean by that? Simply that you are not here to suffer, dear ones, you are here to conquer, and as such, the trials and travails you may encounter on your way are merely to help you to do just that. And when we say conquer, it is not in the old meaning of the word, for this is not about achieving an elevated status at the cost of others.

No, this is simply about reconquering yourselves and your own inherent power, a power that has been taken away from you for such a long time. Again, we know that many will resent this message and call it redundant or at least repetitive, but remember, our task is to help you to fulfill yours, and so, we act in many ways as you supporters and cheerleaders, the bystanders that will egg you on to do all that you can to surpass yourselves.

For make no mistake, we are well aware that for some, this journey could not be more challenging than it has already been, but we also know that there is not a single one of you that is not capable of fulfilling this quest of being totally reunited with yourself in all of your glory. And through your very personal efforts, you will not only reclaim your own powers, you will also reclaim this planet back to what it was meant to be originally. A place for loving co-habitation, a place where mankind would live in harmony with themselves and all the magical creatures of Mother Nature, big or small, beautiful and wild. And as you know more than well, this has not been the case for a very long time, but now, thanks to your efforts, it is about to become so once again.

So take this as a reminder to keep the end goal in sight if you find yourself succumbing to these waves of transformational energy in such a way you think you are becoming utterly powerless. For you are not, in fact, you are reclaiming more and more of your original powers each and every day. But make no mistake, the feeling of powerlessness in itself can seem to go above and beyond of everything you will think you and your physical body are capable of. But you are made of strong stuff, dear ones, and you are capable of feats far, far surpassing all of the challenges you have already had to face on your journey and so, know that you have not even reached the nearest outskirts of your own limits.

And that is something you can not do either, as you are above and beyond any old conceptions of human limits. But still, there will be more than one of you who still can hear that small and rather exhausted voice within saying “no more, you cannot take it, and neither can I”. But remember, that voice is the voice of the old you, the little you, the one that had no way to access your own greatness. But now you can, and now you must. For no one can force you to step into your old and grand shoes, that is a decision that is left entirely up to you.

So remember that each time you find yourself starting to crumble and fall, give yourself a hug and some pep talk, and ask others to do the same for you. For you DO have it in you, but at times, the access to this greatness will be obscured by a seemingly impenetrable wall of physical and mental fatigue. So when you do find yourself slamming into that wall, know that there are more than one open door in this wall, ready to let you pass through without you having to exert yourself at all. And these doors are all marked with the same words: self-love.

For if you manage to find that all-encompassing love for yourself, nothing will stand in your way, and you will allow your body and indeed your mind to become weary from time to time. For you will know why, and you will keep on loving yourself throughout it, no matter what happens. And then, you will find yourself passing through these seemingly dense phases much more easily, and you will not waste your time hammering on that wall, blaming yourself or even thinking you are failing in any way.

So again we say, love is the key that will open any door, also those within yourself, and we do know that these doors can be the last ones opened, for for some reason, mankind have found so many excuses not to let themselves be loved unconditionally by themselves. They will feel far more comfortable about extending that sentiment to others than to themselves, but remember, to know yourself is to love yourself beyond any concept of limits, for you can never love yourself too much.

For only by loving yourself unconditionally can you truly extend that same generosity towards others, and so, going within and giving yourself free reins to do just that will give you literally a free ticket to everything else. For then, and only then will you be able to reach beyond any limitations at all and go as far as you possibly can. For the borders you must cross are the borders you yourself have stipulated, and you have done so by a misconception of your own self-worth. For you are worthy of all the love you can engender, and all the love that others will send you in return.

But remember, you are the main generator of this love, and you are the one that need to understand that unless you find it in you to let go of any limitations of loving yourself, you will carry these limitations with you forever, and they in turn will limit everything else for you.

So sit down and have a deep one on one with yourself, and see if you can find it in you to be honest about what limits you have given yourself. Are there none? You cannot be sure unless you give it a hard try. We think you will all find a way to love yourself just a little bit more. And when you do, you will see how this love that you manage to convey to yourself will be reflected both outwards from you, but also back from everyone and everything that surrounds you.

For if you do not think yourself worthy of unlimited love, then how can you be able to receive this flood of love that is coming your way even as we speak? And remember, the wave of love that is approaching will not take no as an answer, so even if you do not feel you are worthy of receiving it, it will still come to your door, and it will refuse to let go of the opportunity to enter, even if it has to do so by literally breaking the door to pieces in order to be let in. So perhaps it would be a better suggestion to have it wide open by choice, as in your choice.

So choose to embrace yourself with all the love you can muster, and then some. That way, there will be no more walls to climb or locked doors to struggle with. For then, there will be no obstacles in your way, and you will greet this flood of incoming love with open arms, and you and it will become one, for never again to be separated. But if you choose to barricade your door, this wave will not only serve to knock you off your feet, it will be more apt to drag you down under and leave you floundering for a very long time indeed.

This may sound ominous, but it is simply a reminder that this is all about free will, and it is as always you yourself who must decide whether to let go of the old and become even lighter, or stick to the old and risk inundation. We can not force your hand, or rather, your heart, in any way. For you are the masters of your journey, and that is how it must be, so this time it is as always you and only you who must make that choice. And you must do so at your very core, for this is a decision that will have to be a true one.

And that is why we say make sure not to get bogged down by any temporary symptoms or superficial events, no matter how taxing they may seem. For at the core, you are more than ready to make the choice to stand tall and find your one truth, so please make sure you do not let it fade away under the pressure of the day to day chores and challenges. For this time, it is more important than ever that you manage to find that wide open door within, the door that is marked with LOVE and that only you can locate.


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11/19/2013 6:07:52 PM
Dear friends, from Wes Annac's personal blog:

Understanding Spiritual Evolution – Part 6

[19Nov2013]

Written by Wes Annac, the Aquarius Paradigm, Continued from Part 5

We’re meant to reconnect with the spiritual realms, and visualization is a perfect way to practice astral travel in an uninhibited and free setting. Upon practicing this ability as much as possible, you’ll find yourselves able to receive impressions and maintain very clear and constant visuals of the landscapes you choose to experience.

Amidst practicing these types of activities, remember the importance of having faith that what you’re doing is real. Believe in yourself, your abilities and the deeper glimpses into the very real spiritual realms you’re gaining, because we create our reality with our thoughts.

We empower what we choose to believe in or have faith in the existence of, and as such, utilizing faith and belief when practicing etheric visualization will see you able to solidify the experiences you’ll have.

It’s important to maintain faith in what we’re doing and to understand that it actually is real, because plenty of people could choose to laugh off or discredit much of what’s discussed in many spiritual circles because they don’t yet have the understanding of the reality of it all.

If you allow your faith in what you’re doing to wane, your reality will manifest accordingly and you’ll find yourself less able to perceive of the higher dimensions and the metaphysical work you can perform. However, approaching your work with enthusiasm and an open-minded understanding of the reality of what you’re doing can see you move mountains.

Karma, the Golden Rule and the Law of Attraction

Manifestation is a widely discussed aspect of spirituality, and you’ll find material concerning the Law of Attraction, karma and the Golden Rule on practically any spiritual website or forum. A lot of different understandings have been bred about these aspects of our existence, and I’d like to shed my personal light by offering my understanding.

From my experience, it seems that karma, the Law of Attraction and the Golden Rule are all essentially the same thing.

Karma naturally gives back to you what you give out, even if it takes years of our physical time for it to do so. The Law of Attraction sees you manifest based on your thoughts, feelings and the general vibration you’re on, which sees you getting back what you give out to the world and the Universe.

The Golden Rule, which everybody knows, is to treat others how you wish to be treated and includes the idea that you’ll then receive the same treatment back (though that’s not why you do it). If you look at the driving philosophy behind each of these rules/laws, you see that they’re the same law driving our existence.

Upon employing the aforementioned faith and knowing that what you’ve come to discover is real, you’ll meet the reality of karma/the Law of Attraction/the Golden rule. You’ll be able to notice when you’re experiencing events in your Life that are clear manifestations of what you’ve given out or sewn for yourself, and the perfect and interconnected nature of our existence will become clear.

Karma Doesn’t Judge

Karma isn’t a law that seeks to punish us for what we’ve done wrong, nor is it one that judges us in any way. Karma quite literally gives back to us exactly what we’ve sewn for ourselves to experience, and does so in a completely neutral and non-judgmental way.

If you’re one who feels yourself to be on karma’s “bad side” because of things you’ve done or said and the resulting karmic reaction you experienced, know that you’re never judged and are, in fact, loved endlessly as you continue to learn and grow.

Karma doesn’t seek to hurt or punish us, but if we sew circumstances unto ourselves that could see us hurt because of our actions than we aren’t denied the valuable learning experience that could result.

A toddler who’s learning to walk will fall down a few times before getting it just right. When learning to talk, they’ll seem to spout nonsense and scrambled-up words we label as dribble, but they’re learning and growing into their ability to speak and walk and must be allotted room to make mistakes.

So it is with us humans, and as we grow into higher states of consciousness and greet greater understandings of ourselves, so do we experience growing pains at times based on the individual and collective karma we’ve manifested for ourselves.

Ultimately, we’ll come to find that our existence is perfect and that the three laws/rules we’ve believed in, which are one law in reality, are realer than we’ve allowed ourselves to believe.

Growing into Alignment with Divine Will

As we ascend we lighten our vibration to resonate with that of the fifth dimension, and amidst increasingly resonating with that vibration we’ll find ourselves growing into alignment with Divine will.

This can be a touchy subject for some people, because the idea of stepping away from the ordained freewill we’ve been blessed with on the Earth could herald beliefs that we’ll somehow be controlled in the higher dimensions.

When stepping into our greater perceptions, we’ll step out of alignment with the lower-oriented actions, thoughts and feelings we’ve fed into in the lower dimensions and we subsequently lose the potential and desire to think or do such things.

We could still do or think those lower-oriented things if we wanted to manually lower our vibration to resonate with the dense realms we could act upon them in, but in the higher dimensions we step out of alignment with our lower freewill (the will or desire to hurt others) and into alignment with the Divine will of our higher self (the will to spread Love, peace and harmony to as many as possible).

It should be noted that our higher self is the oversoul of the consciousness we exist in on the Earth, and that we’re extensions of this oversoul. Our higher self isn’t some outward Creator entity for us to give our energy to, and rather, our higher self is us in a more evolved form.

As such, stepping into alignment with the Divine will of our higher self is comparable to accepting a diploma and wearing a special hat at a graduation. It’s simply a representation of the fact that we’ve reached newer strides in our pursuit of higher consciousness and doesn’t inhibit or restrict our actual will in any way.

We’ve been allotted the freewill experiment on the Earth, and we’ve been allowed to hurt ourselves, each other and the world around us in the name of experiencing absolutely everything we sew. Humanity is now being called upon to seek spirit and our own Divine will in greater ways than we ever have, and the result could be a complete laying-down of violence and the perceived need to hurt another.

We’ll step into the greatest potentials we could never imagine, and we’ll help build a world that reflects the harmony and joy we’ll each feel within. We can help bring this future about in this moment by seeking within, with the question of what we can do to step into our greater Divine will in this and every moment.

Continued in Part 7 soon. To read the whole writing, head here.

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11/19/2013 6:09:40 PM

Yeshua via Fran Zepeda: Keep Nourishing Your Beautiful Landscape of Love and Heart-Centered Purpose



imageYeshua: Keep Nourishing Your Beautiful Landscape of Love and Heart-Centered Purpose, channeled by Fran Zepeda, November 18, 2013 at: http://www.franheal.wordpress.com

Greetings dear ones. I greet you from an entirely different perspective today. For you are approaching a more complete merging with your Higher Selves and with your monad, and so the vibration from which I communicate is higher and more conducive to your new level of understanding.

And the perspective is beautiful, as you can see. You have reached an entirely new playing field and so it is taking you a little adjustment to integrate and accommodate this new perspective. And it is entirely your own doing, for your intent has been for the most part to accept these loving intense energies of late and absorb them and allow them to build your Light Bodies further.

And you cannot but see things through a new lens, dear ones, an entirely different landscape for many of you. Do not be concerned if you do not physically feel a lot different, however many of you would be hard-pressed to deny that you are feeling and seeing differently. Let go of the resistance and the doubt and you shall see more clearly.

And so dear ones, I beseech you to constantly reach for your higher perspective that is becoming more evident to you. Choose to see things from that perspective. You will find it will become easier to let go of the fears and limitations that once held you back, for your soul is wanting to soar higher and will not be denied. Allow this process with the grace and acceptance and knowing that you have never lost. Let it become your true mode of operation from now on.

The time is here to discard and leave behind your old ways of analyzing with your ego and with your old frameworks of beliefs. Feel with your heart and welcome your new perspective based solely on your hearts. Coming from there all the time now is becoming much more available to you. These energies of late guarantee it. You don’t need to fight it or to call anything according to your old perspective, for you have graduated into a new level. Look around and get acquainted.

Now is the time to connect always with your Higher Self first. Allow it to merge. Allow all the fractals of your essence to merge. Feel yourself merging with your monad or soul family. Take it in stride that you are One. The pieces of information available to you now are limitless. It merely requires you to open to them and take care to not color them or analyze them with your separate self, with your ego. That way of participating in life is going by the wayside as you integrate all of you into this higher perspective you are being welcomed into.

And so it goes that you greet your new selves with honor and love always, accepting and knowing that the divine flame within you is building to an ever-increasing crescendo and taking over and encompassing all aspects of you, as all aspects come home to your divine center.

The process has been beautiful to watch as we observe you “coming into your own” so to speak, of discovering all new and desired possibilities as real and imminent as you pass through the door of your higher awareness. Let yourselves become that expansion and wholeness that is beckoning you.

The old ways of duality are becoming distant as if looking through a rear view mirror as you move forward, and now you see ahead of you an entirely new landscape vibrating with a newness and shimmer designed by love and grace, a landscape that was and is being designed by you in your infinite glory of creative abilities.

Notice, dear ones, that those thoughts and goals of yesteryear may beckon from time to time, as a weed may continue to push through the ground after you have decided to pull it. But it does not have to be so that you allow it to take over your new pristine landscape. For you are stronger and more capable of averting your gaze and intent to keep nourishing your beautiful landscape of Love and Heart-centered purpose. Stand strong now in your new awakened reality. The more you lend your attention and your energy to it, the more it is grounded and manifested.

You are the divine creators and the divine landscape architects of your new lives and your new world. And wherever your mission is leading you will be adorned with beautiful flowers of immense love and vibrant color, awaiting you to focus on them and love them and decide how to use them in your new life. Send only love to the “weeds” in your garden, dear ones and do not focus on them. Focus instead on the beautiful bounty of immense possibilities you are growing to fruition, those beautiful flowers of love and compassion and prosperity and peace and harmony.

You are so close dear ones. You are doing it. Please keep your faith and please keep your attention on your goals for a lighter brighter world for all to enjoy and flourish in. That is your divine birthright and no one can take that away from you.

You are all my precious comrades in peace and love, my beautiful brothers and sisters. Together we are building a beautiful world, one glorious step at a time. Know this and nourish yourselves within this knowing, for it is yours to have forever.

I am forever your loving brother,

Yeshua

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11/19/2013 6:12:13 PM

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Green Revolution?



Anti-nuclear demonstrators march in Cologne, Germany, in March 2011. Photograph: Roberto Pfeil/AP

Anti-nuclear demonstrators march in Cologne, Germany, in March 2011. Photograph: Roberto Pfeil/AP

By Michael Klare, The Guardian – November 18, 2013

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Mass environmental protests are gaining strength. If governments won’t take the lead on an imperiled planet, someone will…

A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines, killing thousands in a single province, and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a devastating “airpocalypse”, suffocating the city with coal-plant pollution, government leaders beware!

Although individual events like these cannot be attributed with absolute certainty to increased fossil fuel use and climate change, they are the type of disasters that, scientists tell us, will become a pervasive part of life on a planet being transformed by the massive consumption of carbon-based fuels.

If, as is now the case, governments across the planet back an extension of the carbon age and ever increasing reliance on “unconventional” fossil fuels like tar sands and shale gas, we should all expect trouble. In fact, we should expect mass upheavals leading to a green energy revolution.

None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment. Take a look and you will see that the assorted environmental protests that have long bedeviled politicians are gaining in strength and support.

With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions.

Sooner or later, government leaders are likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the end, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being swept aside.

In fact, it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. Because climate change is going to inflict increasingly severe harm on human populations, the impulse to rebel is only likely to gain in strength across the planet.

While circumstances may vary, the ultimate goal of these uprisings will be to terminate the reign of fossil fuels while emphasizing investment in and reliance upon renewable forms of energy. And a success in any one location is bound to invite imitation in others.

A “green revolution” is unlikely to arise from a highly structured political campaign with clearly identified leaders. In all likelihood, it will erupt spontaneously, after a cascade of climate-change induced disasters provokes an outpouring of public fury.

Once ignited, however, it will undoubtedly ratchet up the pressure for governments to seek broad-ranging, systemic transformations of their energy and climate policies. In this sense, any such upheaval – whatever form it takes – will prove “revolutionary” by seeking policy shifts of such magnitude as to challenge the survival of incumbent governments or force them to enact measures with transformative implications.

What recent episodes such as the mass environmental protests in Turkey last June, farmers and students blocking the construction of a petrochemical facility in Ningbo, China, and post-Fukushima anti-nuclear demonstrations tell us is that people around the world are becoming ever more concerned about energy policy as it affects their lives and are prepared – often on short notice – to engage in mass protests.

At the same time, governments globally, with rare exceptions, are deeply wedded to existing energy policies. These almost invariably turn them into targets, no matter what the original spark for mass opposition. As the results of climate change become ever more disruptive, government officials will find themselves repeatedly choosing between long-held energy plans and the possibility of losing their grip on power.

Because few governments are as yet prepared to launch the sorts of efforts that might even begin to effectively address the peril of climate change, they will increasingly be seen as obstacles to essential action and so as entities that need to be removed.

In short, climate rebellion – spontaneous protests that may at any moment evolve into unquenchable mass movements – is on the horizon. Faced with such rebellions, recalcitrant governments will respond with some combination of accommodation to popular demands and harsh repression.

Many governments will be at risk from such developments, but the Chinese leadership appears to be especially vulnerable. The ruling party has staked its future viability on an endless carbon-fueled growth agenda that is steadily destroying the country’s environment.

It has already faced half-a-dozen environmental upheavals like the one in Ningbo, and has responded to them by agreeing to protestors’ demands or by employing brute force. The question is: How long can this go on?

Environmental conditions are bound to worsen, especially as China continues to rely on coal for home heating and electrical power, and yet there is no indication that the ruling Communist Party is prepared to take the radical steps required to significantly reduce domestic coal consumption.

This translates into the possibility of mass protests erupting at any time and on a potentially unprecedented scale. And these, in turn, could bring the Party’s very survival into question – a scenario guaranteed to produce immense anxiety among the country’s top leaders.

And what about the United States? At this point, it would be ludicrous to say that, as a result of popular disturbances, the nation’s political leadership is at any risk of being swept away or even forced to take serious steps to scale back reliance on fossil fuels.

There are, however, certainly signs of a growing nationwide campaign against aspects of fossil fuel reliance, including vigorous protests against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

For environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben, all this adds up to an incipient mass movement against the continued consumption of fossil fuels. “In the last few years”, he has written, this movement “has blocked the construction of dozens of coal-fired power plants, fought the oil industry to a draw on the Keystone pipeline, convinced a wide swath of American institutions to divest themselves of their fossil fuel stocks, and challenged practices like mountaintop-removal coal mining and fracking for natural gas”.

It may not have achieved the success of the drive for gay marriage, he observed, but it “continues to grow quickly, and it’s starting to claim some victories”.

If it’s still too early to gauge the future of this anti-carbon movement, it does seem, at least, to be gaining momentum. In the 2013 elections, for example, three cities in energy-rich Colorado – Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette –voted to ban or place moratoriums on fracking within their boundaries, while protests against Keystone XL and similar projects are on the rise.

Nobody can say that a green energy revolution is a sure thing, but who can deny that energy-oriented environmental protests in the US and elsewhere have the potential to expand into something far greater?

Like China, the United States will experience genuine damage from climate change and its unwavering commitment to fossil fuels in the years ahead. Americans are not, for the most part, passive people. Expect them, like the Chinese, to respond to these perils with increased ire and a determination to alter government policy.

So don’t be surprised if that green energy revolution erupts in your neighborhood as part of humanity’s response to the greatest danger we’ve ever faced. If governments won’t take the lead on an imperiled planet, someone will.



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