Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
I fully understand that the forum is failing to involve other members, Matt. I don’t think we recovered the full numbers from the crash.
Apart from the false impression that ALB and I are conducting a personal feud on the forum, which we are emphatically aren’t, don’t you think that the Party is not engaging in a full and proper debate about the effect of climate change will have. I note there are no motions at the up-coming conference on the topic.
My views on the apocalyptical nature of the threat of global warming may not reflect all members thoughts on the matter, but that it will create wars, famines and refugees, is not in doubt.
When schoolkids are showing their concern, our members aren’t bothered to even join a forum to express their opinion because they are “busy elsewhere”. I’m sorry, but such an excuse simply isn’t acceptable to me. If we aren’t even listening to other members views, particularly when we do have a difference on attitudes and approaches that has to be resolved , then what hope have we of getting any sort of dialogue going with fellow-workers. One of the forum’s purposes is to equip members with facts and info to assist their conversations with their friends and families and co-workers.
It isn’t even this thread that is suffering but Brexit too lacks contributors. Venezuela and the prospect of a civil war if not an invasion there and about three people care to regularly say anything on it.
Some members have been determined not to involve themselves on the forum yet they are the most vociferous when it comes to placing motions for conference (yes, you know which branch i mean) and deny any debate except for a limited supporting statement and whatever argument is made at actual conference. So excluding full participation in the process of decision making. I note that EC even declines to use the forum for discussion, preferring SPINTCOM to discuss the WPNZ open-letter, (I thought it should be SPOPEN but there you go)
Party officers and committee members choose not to even join much less visit this forum. I’m not demanding the same frequency of traffic as those like myself who require a medium such as the forum because of our geographic isolation, but surely a once a week click on to see what is concerning other members should not be too much to expect from our “busy elsewhere” members.
And, Matt, you know I am not referring to yourself and some others who put in a valuable load of work back of scenes.
My complaint is the same as I offered in the past regards our blogs. Members don’t view it, don’t link to it, don’t offer feedback, and quite frankly, don’t care about it.
If I despair about my fellow worker apathy, I ten times more, despair about my fellow SPGB member’s indifference.
Morning moan over now and back to my usual trawl of news sites for something worthy to relay.