It's the End of the World As We Know It...

 R.E.M. Live

 That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,

an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

 Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak,, grunt, no, strength, 
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight down height.

 Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.

 Look at that low playing!
Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

 It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

 Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.

 Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

 It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

 It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

 It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone...)

And I feel fine.

YTD - 1033

Eastbay

Signs placed in Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond.

YTD - 1020

One Thousand Signs Plus

 I just bought two hundred posters of the earth from space and will be putting them up on west coast freeways for the next few months. Remember all those flags that went up after September 11th? This is like that, except instead of putting signs up after the tragedy, I'll be putting them up before.

 These are the three things that worry me most:

1) The amount of carbon we're putting in the atmosphere.

2) The amount of carbon dioxide and methane seeping out of a now melting permafrost, and

3) The fact that an ice-free Arctic will start absorbing all the heat from the sunlight it used to reflect.

 It's that last one that really gets me: the thought that the top of our planet is turning blue. While I don't know precisely the atmospheric effects of CO2 emissions from industrial society, or the methane release of ancient plantlife, I do know this: in direct sunlight, a thing that's blue gets a hell of a lot hotter than a thing that's white.

 2012 Report on the Arctic from NOAA

 Posting signs is simply a matter of driving around and looking for those places that are easy to see but not so easy to reach. With hammer, nails, spring clamps, bungee cords and duct tape, you can put a sign up almost anywhere.

 How to Make Signs

 How long they stay up depends on how difficult they are to reach and how motivated someone is to reach them. The sign above is in a (not entirely) sealed-off overpass and has been up for six days now. Generally speaking, signs placed over the freeway will only last a couple of hours. Those placed next to the freeway however will usually last a couple of days.

 As for the legality, I go back to the days after September 11th, when people across the country put American flags all over the freeways. Nobody questioned their reasons or their right to do it, and that's why you should feel free to do it too: either with signs, pictures of the planet, or both. The benchmark case on this was Brown vs. California Dept. of Transportation when CalTrans tried taking down anti-war banners but leaving up the flags. The courts eventually ruled against them, this being, after all, the land of free speech. 

If you do it in front of the cops though, they'll probably ask you to take it down.

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Signs posted since January 1st: 1012

999 Signs Posted Since Jan. 1st

"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Gandhi

Signs placed on various freeways around Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

"NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ" - Stephen Colbert

"If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree." - Jim Rohn

"In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first." - George Carlin

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the human race." - H.G. Wells

Year to Date - 999

Los Angeles/Santa Clarita

 "Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense." - Ronald Reagan

 Signs placed on the 5, 10, 14, 110 and 405 in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita.

 "The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences." - Al Gore

 "As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years." - Elizabeth Kolbert

 "95 percent of scientists say we understand the process and we are convinced there is global warming. The media reports it, like a lot of other stories, as 50-50." - Konrad Steffen

 "The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril." - Barack Obama

 "The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are." - George Carlin

YTD - 988