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How to respond to the crisis of climate change and global warming

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:10:05 -0800

Sir Nicholas Stern has written a lengthy report for the British Government outlining urgent action needed to be taken in response to the imminent climate crisis. Most of his solutions to global warming are technological, based on finding alternative, non-fossil fuel sources of energy. They are all commendable, but it will be some time before we can implement these solutions.

Christmas & Consumerism

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:19:11 -0800

Christmas fuels consumerism. Production lines and shopping centres are waiting for Christmas to arrive. They are seeking greater sales and greater profits this Christmas than the last. Thus Christmas fuels consumerism. But in turn, consumerism fuels global warming.

Poverty and Ownership

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:01:00 -0800

"In the days of the white settlement, the natives of North America found ownership of land an incomprehensible concept. And so they lost it when the Europeans made them sign pieces of paper that were equally incomprehensible to them. They felt they belonged to the land, but the land did not belong to them." - Eckhart Tolle

Critique of Capitalism

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:52:00 -0800

The twentieth century was dominated by two opposing ideologies; communism and capitalism. Communism collapsed, as it was practiced in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Nature knows us - do we know her?

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:05:00 -0800

RECENTLY I WAS talking with Kay Dunbar, the founder of Ways with Words, a literary festival which takes place every year at Dartington. Kay said, “In urban and industrial civilisations people are increasingly losing Eco-intelligence.” The moment I heard the word ‘Eco-intelligence’ it rang a bell. I realised that we belong to a living earth, an intelligent earth, an intelligent planet, an intelligent universe. Intelligence is not a human monopoly.