Reconnecting Humanity to the Web of Life
If we are to survive as a species, we can no longer sustain extracting our precious resources to the point of extinction. The health of the planet is our health. We must change and change now. SEE MY BLOGS: CHANGE IS UPON US, AND CHANGE WE MUST AND AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD
BONUS VIDEO: Helicopter Pilot Blows Whistle On Tuna Industry
Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans.
Free markets were supposed to lead to free societies. Instead, today’s supercharged global economy is eroding the power of the people in democracies around the globe. Welcome to a world where the bottom line trumps the common good and government takes a back seat to big business.
It was supposed to be a match made in heaven. Capitalism and democracy, we’ve long been told, are the twin ideological pillars capable of bringing unprecedented prosperity and freedom to the world. In recent decades, the duo has shared a common ascent. By almost any measure, global capitalism is triumphant. Most nations around the world are today part of a single, integrated, and turbocharged global market. Democracy has enjoyed a similar renaissance. Three decades ago, a third of the world’s nations held free elections; today, nearly two thirds do.
Conventional wisdom holds that where either capitalism or democracy flourishes, the other must soon follow. Yet today, their fortunes are beginning to diverge. Capitalism, long sold as the yin to democracy’s yang, is thriving, while democracy is struggling to keep up. China, poised to become the world’s third largest capitalist nation this year after the United States and Japan, has embraced market freedom, but not political freedom. Many economically successful nations — from Russia to Mexico — are democracies in name only. They are encumbered by the same problems that have hobbled American democracy in recent years, allowing corporations and elites buoyed by runaway economic success to undermine the government’s capacity to respond to citizens’ concerns… more.. Read Rest of Article: How Capitalism Is Killing Democracy – Robert B. Reich
Rachael Carson was Right in her classic novel “Silent Spring”. This Canadian documentary is one of THE Best explanations of what is happening to the state of our planet with the biotech juggernaut racing across our environment, leaving an irreversible destruction in its wake. Our ecosystems, environment and human health and the future of our planet is at stake and I strongly urge you to take the time to listen and watch the entire Canadian expose. It is both educational and global in its reach.
Let’s Make Every Effort during 2012 to protect our animals, preserve their natural habitat and conserve our natural resources for all
In 50 years Indonesia has sold off 50% of It’s Rainforests
INDONESIA Orangutan conservation project – IN PICTURES @guardian http://ow.ly/8iQQj
Healing Themselves By Returning to Natural Law and Reconnection to the Land and Natural Laws
This video depicts how a group of First Nations People in Saskatchewan Canada are reclaiming their Indigenous agricultural heritage, reconnecting with Nature, learning and observing her natural laws, and getting back on the road to self-reliance. Many thanks to Director Noah Erenberg for making this great documentary, presented here courtesy of Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op Ltd. via http://Indigenouspeoplesissues.com/
VIDEO: UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON
I BELIEVE
That everything we humans create has its origins in the Natural World and;
That to the degree Nature is “sick” and out of balance so are we–spiritually, psychologically and physiologically; and
That Nature is the common denominator among all living things and that All species are equal in their own right; and
That until we humans reintegrate into the great web of life as a species within it, and not separate from it, we can never bring true healing and balance back to ourselves or our magnificent planet.
FOR WITHOUT NATURE – WE DO NOT EXIST. PERIOD @pdjmoo The Natural Eye Project
SEE ALSO MY “URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD – THE PERFECT STORM”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few people nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” -Albert Einstein
September, 2009, Rev. December 2010
Factors contributing to climate change are moving faster than predicted and pushing us toward planetary conditions unlike any humans have ever known As Climate Change Worsens, Scientists Feel Increasing Pressure to Speak Out | InsideClimate News December 29, 2011
OUR HOME: We Live on a Wondrously Diverse Planet and We are a vital, integral species within the Magnificent Web of Life not separate from it. Nature needs us. Let us Honor and Respect That
We now understand that the majority of life on Earth has never been – and will never be – known to us. In a staggering forecast Edward O Wilson, eminent Harvard biologist, predicts that our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by 2100…. – “Animal Extinction – The greatest threat to mankind”
Over the last 60 odd years we have become preoccupied with, and fixated on ourselves, our man-made lives of production, indiscriminate consumption and lust for profit. self-gratification and status. In this process we have increasingly excluded from our daily decisions and equations the well-being of others and Nature’s life supporting eco-systems. We can now see how this myopia has wreaked havoc upon both our environment and all species with in it –our societies, our communities and ourselves.
While we were flying high our natural world (and us) began to get sick, really sick . Greed took over from compassion, and wealth negotiated itself more wealth at the expense of the average man, woman and child setting the stage for a global uprising and reawakening.
We forgot our deep and profound responsibility to care for and nurture the greater whole. We forgot that we abide in Mother Nature’s womb, dependent on Her every second of every day. Just as we depended on our mother for nurturing and sustenance while in her womb, we depend on Mother Nature’s health, abundance and generosity for our daily nurturing and sustenance and FOR SURVIVAL as a species. This amnesia has resulted in us almost consuming ourselves out of existence and, in the process, we have lost our connection to community, to each other and to the essential natural processes of life.
While we were flying high our natural world (and us) began to get sick, really sick . Greed took over from compassion, and wealth negotiated itself more wealth at the expense of the average man, woman and child setting the stage for a global uprising and reawakening.
A Perfect Storm is approaching – a combined environmental, economic and social collapse UNLESS we change our attitudes and priorities in life NOW. The major difference this time, than in any other time in human history, is the environment – its massive degradation and depletion by man – the degree of which has never before been seen on this planet – and cumulative effect is the cause of Climate Change.
We depend upon a healthy, balanced natural world for our very existence – as does all life. Our eco-systems have been plundered, pillaged and polluted to a point, in some cases, of no return; species are disappearing at an alarming rate totally destroying the biological and crucial biodiversity balance of the planet. Our common life’s values and the dignity of cultures have been dismantled as we gave ourselves over to the Age of Consumerism. When Drilling for Oil has become a greater priority than clean water and healthy food, we have no choice but to revisit our values in life. What we do and choose now will set the destiny of humankind for centuries to come.
There is nothing that we humans manufacture that does not originate from our natural world – NOTHING. We endlessly extract materials from Her for our clothing, buildings, products, household goods, transportation and energy sources, as if Nature was infinite. .
WE dam Her up; box and fence Her in; package and bind Her; dig Her up; chop Her down; chew Her up and spit Her out; and mold Her to our own purposes. We patent Her, copyright Her, take financial bets on Her in the financial ‘futures’ commodities markets; dump our poisons, garbage and residual toxin waste into Her. We trawl the bottom of our oceans for profit, not having a clue what we are destroying or exterminating (SEE: Nature News Blog: Scientists ‘lag behind’ – Human impacts on the deep sea increases http://ow.ly/6lhCY We mercilessly confine and enslave our animals in tiny spaces, to force them to produce more, bigger, faster, for more profit; often creating great suffering in horrendous conditions. We ravage Her, spray Her with poisonous toxins, manipulate Her, suck Her dry and re-engineer Her – thinking we know better than Nature. We do all this and still expect Her to infinitely keep giving and giving and giving and benevolently provide for us!!?? What insanity. We have pushed our environment and Nature beyond Her capacity to regenerate naturally and feed our voracious appetites, wreaking havoc on the entire planetary system as we try to dominate, control and change Her to suit our whims and fancies and quarterly profits and bank accounts.
It is our responsibility to be mindful of maintaining healthy oceans, soils, forests, rivers and natural resources, being prudent about how much we “take”. There is an intelligent interdependent eco-system to be mindful of. For example, when we cut down a tree, we don’t just chop down a tree, we destroy an entire eco-system. A tree embodies an entire universe within it. Many other species depend on a tree, including the human species. Destruction of one species has a domino effect all throughout the food chain and web of life. Many indigenous cultures believe that the land is not “ownable” SEE “The Land Owns Us” AND The Earth is Not Ours, We Merely Borrow it From Our Children: Lessons from the Maya Q’eqchi http://ow.ly/6lg2Z
We now live in a “McDonaldized”, homogenized, sanitized world of indifference, separation and division. Globally, we have an entire generation of disaffected peoples and youth, hanging out there without a lifeline with no sense of Self; their identities tied to transitory things and possessions, feeling disconnected, confused, isolated and yearning for reconnection and a sense of purpose. (Read More…
A Follow-Up To My Blog: “AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD” http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON THE WALL
HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD A GREAT FALL
ALL THE KINGS’ HORSES AND ALL THE KINGS’ MEN
COULD NOT PUT HUMPTY BACK TOGETHER AGAIN
“This is probably the largest, the most deeply rooted, revolution that mankind has ever seen… it will revolutionize the way you and I interact with each another, the way we travel, the way we consume, the way we produce, everything. There is not one aspect of our human life that will not be touched by this… our lives will be very, very, very, different. We’re talking here about a very serious revolution.” Christiana Figueres, UN Climate Chief, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qRT7Hl7rpY&feature=player_embedded
We Live in the 21st Century – New models for Life Are Demanded
A new paradigm has formed on planet earth requiring a fundamental awareness, consciousness and behavioral shift on the part of humanity. Many of the old structures, models and strategies of the past no longer work and are rapidly disintegrating. Our old “patriarchal” hierarchy power structures of world political, financial, business, economic, education, social and relationship models and systems have run their course. The entire global system is stagnating and polarizing as the old military industrial guard battles it out, desperately trying everything it can to hold on to the way it has known, leading us into a potentially devastating end…The Perfect Storm…a combined Economic, Social and Environmental collapse.
A Revolution is Upon Us. Not one stone will remain unturned as we examine the very fundamentals of life
This old centuries-past polarized system with its current misguided value systems (designed entirely by men it should be noted) has become the anti-thesis of life. The private club era of “It’s A Man’s World” and the military industrial complex mentality has reached its zenith and is imploding. Corporations, for better or worse, now hold the purse strings and run the world, our politics, our governments, and you and me through consumerism. The industrial corporate mind has become a machine, devoid of ethics and morals and without an organic component of compassion and caring for life. Big industry has taken over and now writes our laws in their own self-interest. (http://AlecExposed.org) The game today, with some exceptions, is to make as much money as you can, as fast as you can, anyway you can with little or no concern for the devastation left in its’ wake. ‘Earth Grab’: What mega corporations who profit from climate change don’t want the public to know http://ow.ly/7tFRh Fear, domination and manipulation will escalate in its lust for control, before it subsides.
Women, indigenous people and youth are rising all around the world, bringing a fresh and different perspective, and must be welcomed into the decision-making circle for 21st Century renewal. Emerging and Developing Nations are demanding a seat at the table. We are engaging a new era where, for the first time in human history, we humans are consciously witnessing and participating in our own evolution and revolution. We are, in fact, moving from a collective global adolescent consciousness of instant, short-term gratification into a maturation process where one extends our sense of responsibility to all living things and their long-term natural life-cycles. Not one stone will remain unturned as we examine the very fundamentals of life. Read the rest of this entry »
Check out this SlideShare presentation : Chemtrails – experiments in weather control
ChemTrails: Long Held as a “conspiracy theory” now has so much proof behind it that we have to accept that Climate Engineering is already happening around the world and has been for some years. Why has this information been withheld? Could this “climate remediation” experiment be cause for the increasingly violent weather around the world, in addition to climate change? Who is behind it?
1. “Big Names behind US push for GeoEngineering” – John Vidal, guardian.co.uk http://ow.ly/6VHy0 “A coalition representing the most powerful academic, military, scientific and corporate interests has set its sights on vast potential profits”
2. Could the agenda behind chemtrail/geoengineering programs be more than what geoengineers are admitting? Is there a more sinister plan by the mega corporations and US government to control the food and population via weather manipulation? WHAT, WHY AND WHO In The World Are They Spraying? via Chemtrail Agenda – Michael Murphy on Coast to Coast AM | Food Freedom.
3. NOT RECOMMENDED: Geoengineering scheme “may” boost crop production, but introduce unintended risks, Carnegie Institute researchers say http://ow.ly/8GNdv
3. “Thinking the Unthinkable: Engineering Earth’s Climate” – by Yale Environment 360 http://ow.ly/6VHuY “The report drew sharp criticism from some climate activists, who accused the task force of trying to put a positive marketing spin on doomsday technologies by labeling them efforts at “climate remediation.”
4. “WHY in the World are they Spraying?” – by Farm Wars http://ow.ly/6VPiX Could the agenda behind chemtrail/geoengineering programs be more than what geoengineers are admitting?
5. “Chemicals or Vapor Trails? Either Way Those Lines in the Sky are Bad News! http://ow.ly/7hqDr via http://environmentalgraffiti.com
Even the idea of manipulating our climate makes my hair stand on end. Why haven’t we been told? We humans have so little knowledge about the grand intricacies of how our natural world and atmosphere work. It is all interconnected in such intricate ways and science is just in the infancy stages of understanding it. Remembering that the atmosphere has no boundaries, nor can we humans control the wind or ocean patterns. The prospect of a devastating domino affect on land and sea could literally wipe out all life on earth. There is only one way to address climate change…and that is to stop doing what is creating it. We face massive collapse of our oceans, we have poisoned rivers and soil; our waterways and atmosphere are polluted, humans are dying in millions due to chemical and man-made pollution…all caused by man-made ideas. If we are unwilling to reign in our desires for more, bigger, faster without regard to all aspects of life, including the bee that we depend upon for pollinating our fruits, flowers and vegetables; then we deserve to be sacrificed as a species. Unfortunately we will drag down with us all other species we depended upon for a healthy, balanced natural world. Trying to address the result instead of the cause is like treating sun-stroke instead of staying out of the sun.
FULL LENGTH (1hr38sec) INVESTIGATION MOVIE
Unless we return to common sense thinking, that does not require a Ph.D. – we humans will extract an unimaginable price for our irresponsibility and insatiable drive for profits, control and dominance. We have been trying to “manage” our eco-systems and nature forever…and look at the dangerous brink it has brought us to. Time to surrender our egotistical and arrogant minds to accommodate Nature’s needs, so She may continue to provide for us in abundance, health and well-being. We humans are part of the web of life, not separate from it – it would be wise to remember this.
MAINSTREAM PROOF ~ CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL!
MORE VIDEOS ON YOU TUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcfmWaCjNzE&feature=related
A SOBERING CONTEMPLATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Full Documentary Weather Warfare and Chemtrail Spraying On The History Channel YouTube http://ow.ly/7Omev
RESPONSE from “Agricultural Defense Coalition” to article: Nature News Blog: “Panel recommends US geoengineering research program” http://ow.ly/6VwDn
http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=geoengineering
Why aren’t we addressing what these “risky” issues are and why they are “risky”, instead of just stating that geoengineering or climate remediation (their new term)is “risky”?
The Bipartisan Policy Center Webcast also noted that climate remediation or geoengineering involves Solar Radiation Management (SRM), and this invovles using particles, chemicals, or gases released into the atmosphere. The Center uses the words “risky” over and over again when referring to geoengineering schemes but fails to identify what risks are involved in proposed geoengineering schemes. We wondered why the above article in Sustainable Business did not make a full report with emphasis on how risky and what types of experimentation are proposed by the Center?
Isn’t it time that we have a full public debate on the consequences and risks of these programs before we initiate more of them. The UK Parliament and the U.S. House Science & Technology Committee both held hearings in 2009-2010, and agree to work together on Global Geoengineering Governance as well as on geoengineering itself. Why didn’t these hearings include scientists from all fields instead of just hearing testimony from those that are promoting Geoengineering Schemes?
We need more answers and more public debate on this issue.
Respectfully,
Rosalind Peterson
Agriculture Defense Coalition
(707) 485-7520
Website: http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/geoengineering-current-actions
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Agriculture Defense Coalition PHOTOS http://ow.ly/6VDJS VIDEOS http://ow.ly/6VHkI
INDEPTH INVESTIGATION WITH SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
“Global Geoengineering Governance: Currently the U.S. Government, our military, NASA, NOAA (other U.S. agencies), any city, county, state, private individuals, corporations, foreign governments, and foreign corporations, can initiate any type of geo-engineering experiments without public knowledge, consent, government restrictions or public debate. http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/geoengineering-current-actions
Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power through an unusual process—democracy.
The citizens of Mt. Shasta have developed an extraordinary ordinance, set to be voted on in the next special or general election, that would prohibit corporations such as Nestle and Coca-Cola from extracting water from the local aquifer. But this is only the beginning. The ordinance would also ban energy giant PG&E, and any other corporation, from regional cloud seeding, a process that disrupts weather patterns through the use of toxic chemicals such as silver iodide. More generally, it would refuse to recognize corporate personhood, explicitly place the rights of community and local government above the economic interests of multinational corporations, and recognize the rights of nature to exist, flourish, and evolve.
Mt. Shasta is not alone. Rather, it is part of a (so far) quiet municipal movement making its way across the United States in which communities are directly defying corporate rule and affirming the sovereignty of local government.
Read Rest of Article: Corporate Control? Not in These Communities by Allen D. Kanner http://www.yesmagazine.org/
PLEASE WAIT FOR VIDEO TO LOAD: Could a change in how we view economic systems create a change in how we view ourselves? Ecologize Growth is a micro-film based on the full length documentary, Money and Life, that seeks to answer that question. The film explores old and new perspectives and belief systems about money and how they affect society’s evolving consciousness. via @EarthCharter
To many in both business and government, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power is truly moved into the hands of the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis tells the untold and controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How is the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interest?
The Century of the Self – 1 of 4 – Happiness Machines http://ow.ly/5D6XD
The Century of the Self – 2 of 4 – The Engineering of Consent http://ow.ly/5D6xY
The Century of the Self – 3 of 4 – There is Policeman Inside all our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed http://ow.ly/5D7ag
The Century of the Self – 4 of 4 – Modern Day Politics – Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering http://ow.ly/5D73M
Monsanto invents, produces and sells genetically modified seeds. As a chemical producer of saccharin and caffeine founded in 1901, Monsanto (and Dow Chemical and Diamond Shamrock) manufactured the highly poisonous herbicide and defoliant Agent Orange for the war in Vietnam which was excessively used. About 80 000 m³ of Agent Orange was sprayed across South Vietnam. 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to agent orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects. Agent Orange also increases the risk of various types of cancer and genetic defects. Shortly after the Vietnam War veterans reported various health complications which can be traced to exposure to Agent Orange. No Vietnamese have ever received any kind of compensation. SEE: “EL EFECTO #MONSANTO – Vietnam (1962-1974) Argentina (1996-????)” ow.ly/6YAQ5
Monsanto produces Posilac, a hormone to increase milk production of cows. In the US it is used on a third of all dairy cows. In Canada and in Europe it is prohibited because of many side effects and diseases. SEE: “What do Agent Orange, DDT, aspartamine, bovine growth hormone, #GMOs and now, biopiracy all share in common?” #MONSANTO ow.ly/6WKLv and “Chemical warfare: Horrific birth defects linked to tomato pesticides” ow.ly/6YAQG
Monsanto is world leader in the field of bio-engineering and has branches in 46 countries. 90 percent of the cultivated genetically modified organisms, including soybeans, canola, corn and cotton, are Monsanto patents. The practices of this company worldwide under criticism. “They want to control everything and seed make all the food production in the world their property,” says a farmer on Monsanto.
Understand the game. This huge monolith and juggernaut is consuming all agriculture world-wide, reducing it to a dangerous monoculture loaded with altered genes that this human body is not designed to assimilate. So long as Monsanto can keep research out of the hands of independent scientists, they control not only the research results but all the publicity around it. Monsanto is one of the most powerful and manipulative corporations in the world aligned with the other mega-corporate monopolies. It has the whole world population, the governments and politicians by the throat. They can buy their way into any situation, with huge budgets for lobbying, blackmail, coercion, graft, payola, political contributions and will do anything they have to take over the entire global food supply. You will find in the near future that the global explosion of diabetes and obesity alone all coincide with the sneak entry of gmos into our food supply 20 years ago. The human body is not designed to assimilate this type of toxic geoengineering. An anti-trust issue that no-one or no government is willing to touch…that is how powerful we have allowed Monsanto to become. The issue is not gmos alone, but how it destroys the biodiversity, the soils and life with the pesticides it requires to grow. This has affected our pollinator species declining at a terrifying rate, our water ways and all life in it, and a monoculture of industrial-produced agriculture that has adverse affects on all life….including YOURS. Small farmers are put out of business and have no chance of standing up in the courts against the court-owned Monsanto. The US Dept. of Agriculture is in bed with them and plays the same public relation game of pretending that we all (including small farmers) will benefit. We are fast approaching a tipping point –a point of no return– with Gmo seeding and our entire food supply. Our beneficial insects are killed, birds die when they eat the gmo crops/ insects; bees have been forced fed gmo pollen and we’ve lost 2/3rds of their population (and that goes for almost any species within nature constantly ingesting this diabolical chemically-aligned re-engineering of our natural food. When our cattle are fed genetically modified food it creates changes within them, we then eat it and an implosion of internal modifications begins in our bodies. Every fast food is all gmo; from the bun, to the tomato, to the lettuce, to the pickles, to the meat, to the oil it is cooked on/in. In effect, all life is being affected by this bioengineering of our entire food chain of which we are the end user. Monsanto is closing in fast for global take over by owning all seed that is required for growing food see: Monsanto; seeds; produce – latimes.com http://ow.ly/74fD Monsanto has been known to threaten journalist, and farmers who oppose them as well as the press. How powerful is that !! Once the change is in full operation, which is fast approaching, you cannot put the genie back into the box. What sort of health and life do you want for both yourself and the life forms you eat? Monsanto epitomizes what the Occupy Wall Street revolution is all about….total corporate control of our lives with us having no say due to the corruption within the political and news media systems and the recent Supreme Court ruling giving corporations “citizen’s rights”. Wake Up World…NOW
Farmers Take On Big Ag to reform an industrial animal agriculture system dominated by large corporations ow.ly/740oc @pewtrusts…
Patent on #BROCCOLI will not be revoked – #MONSANTO tightens death grip on food | #gmo #food ow.ly/74cgi #ows #occupywallst…
BLATANT LIES The U.S. has lost thousands of family farms. But corporate farm monopoly wants you to think otherwise ow.ly/6VsqT #ows
Monsanto; seeds; produce – latimes.com http://ow.ly/74fD
RESOURCES: @GMWATCH http://www.gmwatch.org/
VIDEOS:
“GM Crops Farmer to Farmer” – YouTube http://ow.ly/6YCHP
The Future of Food and Seed – Vandana Shiva YouTube http://ow.ly/6YCIq
The Future of Food-Part 1 – Vandana Shiva YouTube http://ow.ly/6YCH6
Islands at Risk (Part 1) – Genetic Engineering in Hawai’i – YouTube http://ow.ly/6YCJb
When Food Kills – 44min. documentary – YouTube http://ow.ly/6YCLy
“Monsanto. The Murdering Monopoly” ow.ly/6YAHr
RESOURCES: http://www.gmwatch.org/ @GMWATCH
NOTE: THIS IS AN ARTICLE FROM 2002.
WAITING FOR MUM by NikolaiZinoviev
It’s a small world: take anybody else on earth, and you are probably linked through six acquaintances. What’s scary is that a similar rule applies to natural life
Stocks of Atlantic cod have reached historic lows, while haddock and other species have been declared commercially extinct. Thriving food webs that were stable for millions of years have in the past 20 been radically altered, and almost three-quarters of the world’s commercially important marine fish stocks are now fully fished, overexploited or depleted. (MORE….
via New Statesman – The extinction of species and why it matters more than you think.
AND MORE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8zAh3irMYo&feature=channel
From: The Global Oneness Project: http://www.globalonenessproject.org/themes/land-owns-us
When did we forget that we are the land? That our physical bodies, our intelligence, our hungers, and our imagination are inextricably part of a vast and infinitely layered living system that creates us, sustains us, transforms us, and ultimately reclaims us? And that just as we are part of this living system, so is the earth. We are part of the same system.
The Earth is our home, our food, our shelter, and our intimacy. It feeds our dreams as much as our bodies, and it has been known as a source of love and divine awareness since the beginning of time.
More poisonous than toxic waste and more destructive than deforestation, it’s our forgetting of Nature’s true value and the denial of our relationship with Nature that has corrupted life on this planet. And it will be our change of perspective and attitude about the Earth that will provide the only lasting foundation for ecological and community renewa…. (more)… The Land Owns Us | Global Oneness Project.
May 21, 2010
Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report. Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet . The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer. READ REST OF ARTICLE: The Guardian http://ht.ly/1OstS
“For the past 50 years, growth in GDP has been an overall policy objective pursued by governments at every level. Obsession with GDP growth has spurred policies to liquidate natural capital as quickly as possible. By correctly valuing changes in our stocks of natural capital and the ecosystem services that they provide will help advance a science of new metrics capable of inspiring more sustainable policy choices.” (Read on…Measuring What Matters: GDP, Ecosystems and the Environment | World Resources Institute.
May 21, 2010: The natural world – biodiversity – is our lifeline #guardian.co.uk http://ht.ly/1OsMg
Photograph courtesy Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft/UAF/CMarZ
This leggy creature may look like an octopus, but it’s actually an immature, or larval, tube anemone
The Last Fish in the Ocean?!
The oceans are being emptied of fish. A forthcoming United Nations report lays out the stark numbers: only around 25% of commercial stocks are in a healthy or even reasonably healthy state. Some 30% of fish stocks are considered collapsed, and 90% of large predatory fish — like the bluefin tuna so prized by sushi aficionados — have disappeared since the middle of the 20th century. More than 60% of assessed fish stocks are in need of rebuilding, and some researchers estimate that if current trends hold, virtually all commercial fisheries will have collapsed by mid century.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1991172,00.html#ixzz0oj8PhUDz
READ ALSO: AFP: Oceans’ fish could disappear in 40 years: UN http://ht.ly/1OGmq
Tojo, Indonesia: A villager walks through a burnt forest after a slash and burn practice to open the land for agriculture. Photograph: Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters
Britain and other countries face a collapse of their economies and loss of culture if they do not protect the environment better, the world’s leading champion of nature has warned.
“What we are seeing today is a total disaster,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. “No country has met its targets to protect nature. We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. If current levels [of destruction] go on we will reach a tipping point very soon. The future of the planet now depends on governments taking action in the next few years.” (read article)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/16/nature-economic-security
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The authors present evidence that human impacts may be forcing these mutualist systems down unprecedented evolutionary paths.
“With global climate change, evolutionary change can happen very rapidly, over a few years,” said Judith Bronstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the UA’s College of Science and senior author on the paper. “That can be a good thing or a bad thing, we don’t know, but people need to start looking at those effects.” … more
via From bees to coral reefs: How humans impact partnerships in the natural world.
Birds are a real rarity these days. In his boyhood, he recalls, he would watch the acrobatics of entire flocks as they ducked and dived after insects. But now the skies are silent, barring the hum of the odd airplane. Turning back to his fruit and vegetable patch, he continues the laborious task of pollinating the raspberry plants by hand, gently brushing pollen onto the slender stigmas inside the flowers. In the past, bees, wasps, butterflies and flies would have done this job for him; nowadays such insects are likewise a rarity. Farmers instead resort to robot bees to pollinate their crops: tiny motors, encased in fuzzy fabric, which hover from flower to flower….(more… None flew over the cuckoo’s nest: A world without birds – Nature, Environment – The Independent.
SEE ALSO: VIDEO: Why Starling fly, swoop in beautiful complex, coordinated patterns? @Telegraph http://ht.ly/39I9g
SEE ALSO: NATURE’S STARLING ‘BALLET’ in danger as bird population declines PHOTO – @Telegraph http://ht.ly/39I7x
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/696/Life-Running-Out-of-Control Running Time: 59:50
Director: Bertram Verhaag | Producer: Bertram Verhaag Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2004 | Country: Germany
“Life Running Out of Control” by Bertram Verhaag is an absolute MUST WATCH documentary Movie. Produced in 2004 it explains in depth how, even back then, genetic engineering was quietly taking over our global food and animal supply and had been for decades, reducing the gene pools, to a point where it may be irreversible.
The human, animal and environmental health risks are addressed here as well as the dangers and ethics of altering the genes of our food and animals — and thus us. Everything is interconnected and altering the genes of nature has a ripple affect on all of nature, our environment and us as we are clearly witnessing and experiencing today. (See “Urgent Memo To The World” on this blog here)
If you want to know why the environmental and food activists are protesting…this will fill you in. Let’s hope it is not too late.
© 2010 Daniel J. Cox/NaturalExposures.com
The Center for Biological Diversity: Warning: This video includes disturbing footage of a malnourished polar bear mother and her two cubs in western Hudson Bay, Canada. Some may choose not to watch, because it includes graphic scenes of a malnourished cub experiencing seizures. Both cubs died within two days of the November 23, 2010, filming. As difficult as the images are to watch, they show the real-life struggle polar bears face each day trying to survive on a warming planet. Malnourishment, starvation and even cannibalism have become facts of life for polar bears in western Hudson Bay and other areas. Read the rest of this entry »
Mangrove Restoration
Ecosystem services provide the link between nature and economic development. How can this approach guide more sustainable decisions?
Investing in Nature, for People’s Sake | World Resources Institute.
via CleanTechies.com http://ow.ly/4lYVK
Don’t expect climate change to get fixed by the governments of the world. And it won’t be clean tech or green products saving the day either.
The problem is consumerism. Too many people want too many things on a finite planet with limited resources. The process of obtaining and manufacturing those things is what has gotten us into trouble: carbon emissions, resource depletion, deforestation, species extinction, etc. The consumer economy is the cornerstone of “democratic” governments worldwide. As a result, governments have no genuine interest in changing the status quo. It would be too problematic, too chaotic, and mean transcending too many vested interests. (Via Cleantechies.com)
Everyone has to do their part; be more with less. The problem is not money, says Brazilian Leonardo Boff in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.
“The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,” says Boff, professor at Brazil’s State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature. READ ON: Tierramérica.
Read on: Attention Restoration Theory Taps Nature’s Medicine
It’s a pity we’re still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene — human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth — is already an undeniable reality. Evidence is mounting that the name change suggested by one of us more than ten years ago is overdue. It may still take some time for the scientific body in charge of naming big stretches of time in Earth’s history, the International Commission on Stratigraphy, to make up its mind about this name change. But that shouldn’t stop us from seeing and learning what it means to live in this new Anthropocene epoch, on a planet that is being anthroposized at high speed. …. more
TRAILER: This Is the Most Beautiful and Terrifying Portrait of Earth I’ve Seen.
FULL VERSION (RUNNING TIME: 1 hr33min)
Jesus Diaz- GIZMODO — Over the course of 15 years, award-winning photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand crafted the most beautiful view of the Earth I’ve ever seen on the silver screen: Home is an exquisite vision of our world, full of pure bliss—and terrifying scenes.
Produced by Luc Besson, the movie’s one hour and 33 minutes will give you goose bumps, taking you to 120 locations over 54 countries, showing the majestic nature of our planet in stark contrast with the effect of human industries and technology.
This movie has already been seen by 400 million people—200 million in China—but now it is arriving to the US. If you are in New York, you will be able to watch it in the big screen at the Village East Cinema for free. It’s really amazing to watch it on a big screen, so I highly recommend you to go if you can.
But fear not: If you are not lucky to be in NYC—or is not showing in a screening near you—you can watch it right here. Enjoy!
from naturesoundsfor.me/
AND Listening Earth http://ow.ly/4lZD7
There are no negative effects from listening to sounds of nature, while positive ones are many. Except the calm and relaxation they are giving, which affects the psychological and mental state in a best way, other healing powers can be found in sounds of nature. Many modern studies showed that these sounds help regulation of the blood pressure, diabetes, as well as support overcoming of insomnia and depression. Nature sounds can be separated in two main groups: first one includes the sounds produced by animals, while the second consists of sounds produced by natural phenomena such as weather and meteorological occurrences.
During the history, sounds of nature, especially animal sounds, have been objects of imitation of tribal people (and even of devotion when they have been related to their belief systems). Even today imitation of nature sounds is used in many shamanic rituals and healing techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
“Sebastian Copeland’s stunning photographs are a stark reminder of what we stand to lose. He has ventured to the bottom of the world and returned with a message that we cannot afford to ignore.” – Sting
The fate of Antarctica foretells the fate of the Earth. For more than fifty years, research scientists have studied the frozen continent and its threatened and endangered creatures, including the chinstrap penguins, humpback whales and albatross. The stark yet fragile icy realm may sound our last warning before the impending destruction of the environment.” Check out “Trailer” and a Must See “Gallery” Antarctica: The Global Warning..
The Symbiotic Relationships of Life
“Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people”
10 March 2011 – The potentially disastrous decline in bees, a vital pollinating element in food production for the growing global population, is likely to continue unless humans profoundly change their ways, from the use of insecticides to air pollution, according to a United Nations report released today.“The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,” UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner said. “The fact is that of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees.” READ ON: Humans must change behaviour to save bees, vital for food production – UN report.
The Hopi Elders come forward with a message to the world in response to
the tsunami and earthquake in Japan. This is a historic moment for our
planet to hear them speak. They give humanity a simple message for our
future and how to overcome these difficult times. Sending Prayer to the
people of Japan and around the world.
How Did A Handful Of Corporations Steal Our Water? Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. ‘Flow’ confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
“The Earth is Full” Op Ed by Thomas Friedman – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=2
The Great Disruption offers a stark and unflinching look at the challenge humanity faces – yet also a deeply optimistic message. The coming decades will see loss, suffering, and conflict as our planetary overdraft is paid; however, they will also bring out the best in humanity can offer; compassion, innovation, resilience, and adaptability
Paul Gilding – Personal website of Paul Gilding
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Submitted by: Francesca Rheannon Posted: Dec 06, 2011 – 04:58 PM EST
Tags: cop 17, climate change, environment, ecological commons, human rights, sustainability
In this second part of a two-part series, we explore how the “duopoly” of State and Market could become part of a new triarchy with the Commons to protect the environment.
Francesca Rheannon
By Francesca Rheannon
In this second part of a two-part series, we explore how the “duopoly” of State and Market could become part of a new triarchy with the Commons to protect the environment.
A banner reading “Listen to the people, not the polluters” was briefly unfurled December 5th when Greenpeace activists tried to hang it from a Durban, South African hotel hosting a conference of business leaders convened by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. It was part of a protest to highlight Greenpeace’s new “Dirty Dozen” report, coinciding with the climate talks in Durban, on how major corporations are holding the world back from getting an effective deal on tackling climate change as the clock ticks perilously close to climate tipping points.
(One of the conference participants showed up on the “dirty dozen” list: Eskom, the South African state-owned electrical utility.)
That three of the activists were immediately deported is symbolic of just how little world leaders are “listening to the people.” (continued.…http://ow.ly/7RgfB
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: “Occupy COP 17: Why The Climate Talks Will Fail And What To Do About It” http://ow.ly/7JEoZ
by Francesca Rheannon Managing Editor CSRwire’s Talkback – Posted: Nov 29, 2011 – 08:14 PM EST
With the climate talks in Durban seemingly headed for a train wreck, an innovative project is developing a new legal international framework for protecting the planetary ecosystem that could just be the most important legal initiative of our age.
The climate talks had not even started in Durban when their epitaph was already being written. It was revealed in a number of reports that at the two previous talks in 2009 and 2010, the big industrial nations of Europe and the US had bullied smaller nations into accepting no action on the climate and that the rich nations, including the UK, EU, Japan, US and the UN have already decided to quash any agreement until 2020 – at which time, no doubt it will be conveniently put off again.
It won’t matter by then because it will be, in the memorable words of Dr. James Hansen, “game over for the planet.” The narrow window we might just possibly still have to avert civilization-destroying climate change will close by 2015. To squeak through that window, we will have to begin ratcheting down our absolute emissions by then – in other words, reverse the direction we are currently on, which saw a 6% rise in emissions in 2010, despite the global economic downturn. Read the rest of this entry »
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: “Occupy COP 17: Why The Climate Talks Will Fail And What To Do About It” http://ow.ly/7JEoZ
by Francesca Rheannon Managing Editor CSRwire’s Talkback – Posted: Nov 29, 2011 – 08:14 PM EST
With the climate talks in Durban seemingly headed for a train wreck, an innovative project is developing a new legal international framework for protecting the planetary ecosystem that could just be the most important legal initiative of our age.
Francesca Rheannon
The climate talks had not even started in Durban when their epitaph was already being written. It was revealed in a number of reports that at the two previous talks in 2009 and 2010, the big industrial nations of Europe and the US had bullied smaller nations into accepting no action on the climate and that the rich nations, including the UK, EU, Japan, US and the UN have already decided to quash any agreement until 2020 – at which time, no doubt it will be conveniently put off again.
It won’t matter by then because it will be, in the memorable words of Dr. James Hansen, “game over for the planet.” The narrow window we might just possibly still have to avert civilization-destroying climate change will close by 2015. To squeak through that window, we will have to begin ratcheting down our absolute emissions by then – in other words, reverse the direction we are currently on, which saw a 6% rise in emissions in 2010, despite the global economic downturn.
Some eternal optimists are putting their (desperate) hopes in voluntary agreements to rein in emissions. But I’ve got some beachfront property in Florida to sell them. Voluntary agreements won’t work for the same reasons we can’t get formal agreements on the climate: the world’s governments are captive to Capitalism-Run-Amuck (otherwise known as neo-liberal capitalism because of its refusal to be regulated).
Such a system cannot protect the atmosphere nor any of the other vital systems on which human life depends: the oceans, forests and ability of the land to nurture and sustain us without being poisoned. In short, the ecological commons. That is the true Tragedy of the Commons: it is subject to a system that literally cannot see it, except as something to be enclosed for private exploitation and gain. Read the rest of this entry »
FULL STORY: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/pollinators/holland-text?source=email_gg
Water is needed for the source of ALL Life. Water is capable of recalling and storing information, like a computer memory. Water absorbs the vibrations, emotions and thoughts around it. If the human body is made up mostly of water, one can see how crucial it is to maintain positive thoughts, emotions and actions.
“The System of the Universe exists as a single perfect organism. All of its parts including us and our earth are inseparably bound together by huge streams of information. And on our planet water plays the key role in how the information is exchanged. In effect it is the medium through which all nature is governed”
“As the U.S. slowly abandons its dams, more and more pilot programs pop up for deriving power from tides and river currents. Welcome to a new age of water power.”
FULL ARTICLE - FAST COMPANY http://ow.ly/5MavG The Next Generation Of Turbines Go Underwater, And They’re Coming Soon
This Important and lovely documentary uses the salmon as a focal point for the hydroelectricity disasters. It also relates to the idea of INDUSTRIAL FISH FARMING, or AQUA FARMING of our seafood and the dangers inherit with this engineering. Perhaps we should be focusing on restoring our rivers and oceans to health again– and responsible industrial fishing. Running Time: 50 minutes
Let’s not make the same mistake we did with dams. Before I get excited about HYDROKIETICS and NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY, I would want to know how this affects fish/marine habitats, tidal flows and the health of the environment/ecosystems, whether it be rivers or seas. I can see the repeat of a rush for profits and a forgetfulness that we humans depend on a natural healthy world for our own well-being. With habitats struggling for survival within NATURE, I would think it would be a corporate responsibility to ensure more damage is not being laid at the feet of Nature just because a new technology has come onto the horizon. Humans are very intelligent. I always encourage our SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGY minds to use a base criteria for all they develop and that is: Does it harm the environment or human health?
We can come up with inventions that are compatible for all IF we adhere to a base line that includes all life. We need to work with Nature, not against her and stop trying to manipulate, manage and control her to the detriment of all.
This is more than just about clean energy. Our environment, ecosystems, marine health must be taken into account before we rush into this new technology. Otherwise…we will repeat the same mistakes we did with dams and indeed Industrial Fish Farming .
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This movie has already been seen by 400 million people—200 million in China—but now it is arriving to the US. If you are in New York, you will be able to watch it in the big screen at the Village East Cinema for free. It’s really amazing to watch it on a big screen, so I highly recommend you to go if you can.
