e position in the climate change debate. It is almost as if, simply by demonstrating their supposed credentials and commitment, the ‘answer’ and with it salvation, will be found. The ‘solutions’ to climate change repeatedly proferred by Western leaders, think-tanks and board rooms – technical fixes, managerial reorganisations and diktats from on high - recall the workings and mindset of defunct communist regimes. Put aside political ideology, however, and the notion that technocratic, scientific and political elites have’the answers’ by dint of their societal standing, practically ensures that the one thing rarely opened up to further examination is what drives their self-referential interests, values, hierarchies, mores, or - for that-matter - epistemologies, in the fist place. Even less discussed is the possibility that it might be exactly these imperatives which are acting as an intertial brake on meaningful action, or, worse still, lie at the very not of why we are in these dire straits. Mark Levene & David Cromwell June 2007 BE ASSURED our new masters of the globe are saying to us “rest assured we are not intent on destroying the world, but doing everything in our power to save it.” But the truth is that we most all individually and collectively question that assumption; and must do so by challenging the social, economic and political parameters within which these diverse elite actors (celebrities of al) assume a basis for action (or inaction) on climate change. The essential inadequacy of the elite postion rests on an unwillingness, indeed inability, to accept anthropogenic climate change as an inevitable consequence of their self-interested obsession with the need for ever continuing growth of our globalising economic system. Only by rethinking the operating premises of that are we likely to have any chance of moving towards a safer and more sustainable future.
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oice and video, and certain classes of sensors and actuators. As the number & diversity of network-connected devices grow exponentially, however, it will be impossible to forecast bandwidth demand, routing patterns, or quality-of-service requirements. As a result we will need smarter and higher-capacity optical networks that are extremely adaptable to changing bandwidth requirements. Designing systems where users and applications have a continuous presence on the network, able to seamlessly move across multiple networks without interuption - even enter and exit the enterprise network or the residential network and cross over to the carrier network - therefore becomes one of the major challenges.IN TODAY'S HYPERCONNECTED WORLD, CONVENIENCE IS [unfortunately]
THE ULTIMATE CURRENCY of THE still BURGEONING HIDDEN PERSUADERS
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a topicthis has been, capital has been the main–if not the only–way of achieving progress, even in voilently anticapitalist, socialist countries. A dam, a hospital, a university, a cathedral, or a national park cannot be built without using up resources that would be easier to consume immediately, and none of them would be built at all unless they were believed to provide some greater returns in the future.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"EVOLUTIONARY is a play on the word "REVOLUTIONARY", and I mean it to convey something of the revolutionary nature of evolution as an idea. Evolutionaries are revolutionaries, with all the personal and philosophical commitment that word implies.
They are not merely curious bystanders to the evolutionary process, passive believers in the established sciences of evolution, though all certainly value those insights.
They are committed activists and advocates - often passionate ones - for the importance of evolution at a cultural level."- Carter Phipps - EVOLUTIONARIES -Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea.
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ZEN is TAO and NOT ZEN without TAO
ZEN is BUDDHA and NOT ZEN without BUDDHATAO & BUDDHA are independent & of ZEN ZEN is dependent on TAO & BUDDHA as ONE
n ordering that comes from a new Blue that is visioned and designed from a higher perspective of post-modern or 2nd tier thinking. The new Pope is shifting into Green and out of the jesuitical punitive mode of Blue and much of Christianity elsewhere has made that shift somewhat. Some parts of Islam have too, and the parts that you complain of regularly have not and are still in Red-Blue tribal and one-right-way thinking.
The necessary shift comes from a revisioning of spirituality which could still have a Christian perspective or any other religious tradition as its language, but is seen from a quite different sense of the relationship between human body and the spiritual world.
This is what I am articulating in "The Science of Possibility".
We have to reframe the old division between physical/material and energetic/spiritual in a way that recognises that we are simultaneously both, and that a part of our being lives at the interface. It gets called soul, as if that is separate or higher self, as if that is purely internal. The reality is that we are continually oscillating in and out of the layer of connectedness, because our electrons and positrons are moving back and forth between matter and source energy. Some people perceive the porousness of this boundary; most do not. Science does not know how to recognise it even though the evidence is abundant. For a healthy future, Western Civilisation needs to allow this viewpoint to reframe its view of religion in a way which recognises that all religions are cultural metaphors that assist us in interpreting our relationship with each other and the Divine realm. When that happens, all viewpoints will be chioces and all equally right. All will provide a useful moral fabric and none will require us to fight over them.
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