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One World
One Humanity
One Environment
September, 2009, Rev. December 2010
The Common denominator among all living things
IS NATURE
Finding A Way For The Greater Good
An Urgent Task
January 10, 2012 Climate News Network: Humanity faces a possible collapse of global civilisation, according to two Californian scientists. Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, of Stanford University, US, argue in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published by the UK’s national academy of science, that civilisation is faced with a menacing array of environmental problems…. http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/01/are-we-doomed-it-all-depends/
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
THE GREAT AWAKENING
In just over 250 years we have consumed or destroyed what took millions and millions of years to evolve…
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.
Without Nature We Do Not Exist. Period
It is an illusion to expect healthy, balanced lives without a healthy, balanced natural world. Her health is our health
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, and even then, we may well have passed the tipping point of what our biosphere can handle.
The major difference this time, than the Great Depression or 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 the 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.
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In The Final Analysis, We Cannot Eat Money
A Follow-Up To My Blog: “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
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
“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.”
We Live in the 21st Century – New models for Life Are Demanded
BY @pdjmoo February 21, 2012 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 and self-destructing. Our old “patriarchal” hierarchy power structures of world political, financial, business, economic, education, social and relationship models and systems have run their course. Neither science nor technology alone can fix this–neither can throwing money at the chaos we have created. We must address the very cause and roots of the rotting, old system. 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.
Women, Youth and Indigenous Peoples are Rising
A Revolution is Upon Us. Not one stone will remain unturned as we examine the very fundamentals of life
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 “I”, instant, short-term gratification into a maturation process of “We”, where one extends our sense of responsibility to all living things and their long-term natural life-cycles. Read the rest of this entry »
No-Where to Go
via The Habitat Advocate
NO-WHERE TO GO, NO-WHERE TO HIDE
“OUR SUCCESS IN TRANSFORMING THE COMMODITY MARKETS WILL DETERMINE NATURE’S (AND OUR) FATE ” MongaBay http://ow.ly/a8DiF
According to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the deforestation that has already taken place in Indonesia for palm oil, and the illegal logging that is still occurring there now, indicate that most of the country’s rainforest will have been destroyed entirely by the year 2022.
An ECOCIDE of Mammoth Proportions
VIA: Biodiversity IS Life: Environment, Ecosystems
“Just 300-500 companies worldwide control 70 percent of the trade of each of the 15 key commodities linked to habitat destruction and degradation. And less than 100 corporations impact half of global production.”
This is an issue that must be addressed and addressed head on NOW. Planet Earth survives because of a healthy biodiversity where all species in the web of life are symbiotic, interdependent and which we humans depend upon for our very survival. As top of the food chain, we humans have both a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure this balance is maintained, not just for our own survival sake, but for all life that we depend upon in all ecosystems. We are destroying Nature at an alarming pace; emptying our oceans, destroying our soils and waterways, poisoning our food and wildlife with lashing of pesticides and chemicals with no idea what the final outcome of this destruction will be. Extinction is forever and the inbuilt intelligence of ecosystems is beyond our scientific minds due to its intricacies and self-regulating integrity. And if take an icon such as the Orangutan (one of our distant cousins) to wake us up, so be it. For we must WAKE UP, get out of our heads, put aside our linear statistical thinking and reconnect with the circular organic process of life that we are part of and depend on for our health & well being.
LIVETEN – Australia – REPORTS
TAKE ACTION: http://ow.ly/a8IdU
RainForest Action Network: http://understory.ran.org/?s=Orangutans+Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest, deliberately set by palm oil corporations, may have killed a third of the remaining rare Sumatran orangutans. About 200 of the original 3,000 still live there. Only 12,267 hectares (30,311 acres) of Tripa’s original 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of forest remain.The rest has been broken up and degraded as palm oil companies drain the swamp and terminate the life of the forests. Orangutans in Indonesian Forest May Die Out in Weeks Read the rest of this entry »
FOLLOW: Latest in GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE News by @pdjmoo on @scoopit
VERY DISTURBING
Irreversible Man-Made Chemicals Could Change Our Climate,
Environment and Life On Earth
- March 4, 2013 – BBC Future – Science & Environment -
The Trouble With Climate Geoengineering: Goldilocks effect to cloud seeding http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130304-the-trouble-with-cloud-seeding - ROGUE GEOENGINEERING COULD LEAD TO AN UNPREDICTABLE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS – John Vidal – The Guardian Environment – January 8, 2013
- Geoengineering science fiction and fact: Kim Stanley Robinson on how we are already terraforming Earth Dec. 3, 2012 Slate
- Bill Gates admits funding climate geoengineering – Chemtrails in Our Skies
- World’s biggest geoengineering experiment ‘violates’ UN rules October 15, 2012, Guardian
- Spraying The Skies
- DISCOVERY CHANNEL: Chemtrail/Climate Geoengineering Programs discussed on Discovery Channel - YouTube
- USA For-Profit GEOENGINEERING company to spray sun-reflecting CHEMICALS from 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico NO REGULATIONS. NO OVERSIGHT
- The pros and cons of geoengineering – New Scientist Cons Outweigh the Pros
- Big Names Behind US Push For Geoengineering – John Vidal, guardian.co.uk
- SEE: Chemtrails: Why in the World are They Spraying? When Will They Learn?
- WATCH: Skywatcher: Contrails, Chemtrails and Artificial Clouds Explained – YouTube
“WHY In The World Are They Spraying?” NEW Full Length Documentary 1:12:55
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
“ChemTrails” and Climate GeoEngineering: Long Held as a “conspiracy theory” evidence is now emerging that Climate Engineering is already happening around the world, and has been for years. Why has this information been withheld? Could this “climate remediation”, “solar radiation management” experiment be further cause for the increasingly violent and extreme weather around the world? Who is behind it? The following videos, articles and investigations lay out indisputable evidence that climate remediation/climate geoengineering is already underway and we should all be outraged at this secretive, potentially devastating assault on our planet without serious, independent scientific peer reviewed studies. The only way to stop the impending adverse affects of climate change is to stop doing what is creating it, not further destroying our atmosphere and environment, or finding bandaid “solutions” that allow us to keep on with the industrial pollutions and environmental degradations that created it in the first place.
Link: SlideShare presentation : “Chemtrails – experiments in weather control”
The World of Geoengineering | ETC Group Maps of Known Earth System Experimentations ETC Group publishes a world map of geoengineering — the large-scale manipulation of earth or climate systems. While there is no complete record of the scores of weather and climate control projects in dozens of countries, this map is the first attempt to document the expanding scope of research and experimentation. Almost 300 geoengineering projects/experiments are represented on the map belonging to 10 different types of climate-altering technologies.
SEE: Chemtrails: Why in the World are They Spraying? When Will They Learn? – Wake Up World
“WHAT In The World Are They Spraying?” Full Length Investigation (1hr38sec)
Comment by @pdjmoo: “Even the idea of manipulating our climate makes my hair stand on end. 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. Trying to address the symptom instead of the cause is like treating sun-stroke instead of staying out of the sun”…pdjmoo SEE My “Urgent Memo To The World“ Read the rest of this entry »
“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 conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today
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
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Listen Carefully to this extraordinary story – which is yours
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.
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!
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.
WATCH: These VIDEOS
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)
Economic progress does not have to come at the expense of environmental health.
A new UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) report imagines a future where agriculture is no longer a main emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs)—agriculture emits anywhere from 13 to 30 percent of total GHGs worldwide. Greening agriculture, states the report, could change agriculture to “a GHG sink, while reducing deforestation and freshwater use by 55 percent and 35 percent.
Investing just two percent of global GDP each year can create a new “green economy,” according to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (MORE.. via UN Report Highlights Agriculture’s Role in the Transition to a Green Economy.
A decade ago, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen first suggested we were living in the “Anthropocene,” a new geological epoch in which humans had altered the planet. Now, in an article for Yale Environment 360, Crutzen and a coauthor explain why adopting this term could help transform the perception of our role as stewards of the Earth.
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
The collective duty of humanity is to seek a balance with nature.
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.
The green revolution is a women’s revolution
Women’s agricultural empowerment is the next frontier for the global women’s movement…an unrecognized fact that 70% of the world’s farmers are women… but own less than 2% of the land. (READ MORE…)
via Earth Day: Green Revolution Can Be a Womens Revolution, Too | Womens Rights | Change.org.
