Robert Wagner for Vermont Senate 2010

Vermont is a Lifeboat

Last week, author Michael Ruppert of Confronting Collapse and Crossing the Rubicon toured Vermont, sponsored by Chelsea Green Publishing, Radio Free Vermont, The Candidates for Vermont Independence and Transition Towns.

As your candidate I pledge to work without stopping toward the survival of our people and our communities.

Here’s what Ruppert had to say in Burlington…

http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/author-and-peak-oil-activist-michael-ruppert

May 19, 2010, 1300 PDT — This is my first real large talk since 2005. I held nothing back. In it, I say things that are certain to tick off almost everybody out there. That was intended. What I want now is for anybody to challenge me to back up anything that I said here on mainstream media. (Special thanks to George Galloway. You showed me how to do this.)

Vermont is a very special place. It is one of only two states in U.S. history that were independent republics before voting to enter the Union. The other, of course, was Texas. I just spent almost a week in Vermont on a whirlwind tour that included major speaking engagements in Burlington, Montpelier and Brattleboro; two TV appearances (including this one); two in-studio radio interviews, and many smaller appearances at a number of venues. Vermont is unique among all the states in that, by itself, it could be made into a lifeboat as a state. I met with both the Gubernatorial (Dennis Steele) and Lt. Governor candidates as well as candidates for the state senate. As I listened to them I heard that their concerns — as well as their emerging platform — are taken from the pages of the collapse of human industrial civilization.

What you will see here is explosive and controversial. I guess you could say I’m really back now. It’s time to bring this to a head because there is no more time to waste. From now on I will refer to the Peak Oil/Sustainability movement only as the Lifeboat Movemement, because that’s what it is. It belongs to all mankind.

photo courtesy of Cara Tompkins

Michael Ruppert maintains a blog at MikeRuppert.blogspot.com and will keep it up to date until CollapseNet goes live…