By: Ian Morill

Ian Morill — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:54:30 +0000

As someone who has been campaigning on environmental issues for nearly 30 years now I have finally woken up. We are a selfish, greedy animal.We are greatly deluded and suffer from misplaced arrogance. We assume that it is our so called ‘large brains’ and our ability to ‘empathise’ that defines who we are , that we have a ‘conscience’. Well we don’t use those ‘abilities very well do we. I think it’s our ‘egos’ that more clearly define who we are. If true that is truely scarey. How can we hope to solve our many problems based on something so irrational ? We believe, in our arrogance that we can invent ourselves out of this mess. When the truth is we invented ourselves into this mess in the first place (believing we were making things better) The bottom line (and the very simple way of understanding the situation) is that a certain set of circumstances brought about the possibility of our existence. It then stands to reason that if we greatly alter those conditions it is going to make things worse not better. Just think about this simple scenario. A Cheetah can run just fast enough to catch it’s prey , a Giraffe reach just high enough to reach the leaves of a tree , what then if we’re just not quite clever enough to outwit nature !? It’s a big ask when you think about it. That we can do better than the very set of circumstances that brought about our very existence.We’re seriously deluded. Most living things that have ever existed are now extinct, why not us. Here’s the clincher, why we will never do enough. According to the UN , 18% of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by meat production (on top of that it contributes to soil erosion, deforestation, is a very inefficient way of producing food , considering there are billions starving. Grain has to be grown to feed animals and a lot of water used to rear them ) All this is more damaging than all forms of transport put together. Yet who of you out there would be prepared to make one lifestyle change and give up meat ?…exactly. We’ve passed the tipping point and we’re still not prepared to do nearly enough.

By: Fredric L. Rice

Fredric L. Rice — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:23:04 +0000

Of them all, the lack of potable water her ein the United States would appear to be the most pressing problem. We see the Israeli terrorist State committing war crime atrocities against its bneighbors as it seizes control of other people’s water, and the wars to steal other nation’s drinkable water are quickly coming equal to the Christian terrorists stealing other people’s oil.

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