derstood, our own understanding and commitment to the very concept of GAIA as proposed by Margullis & Lovelock remains at the heart of that which [WE] both ascribe to, most particularly in the context of PAST • PRESENT • FUTURE • AS ONE • NOW • in which I referred to Lovelock’s 100th Birthday and and his very adamant proposal that Earth • GAIA will [BE] in[DEED] saved by artificial intelligence, bearing in mind that he has always been an ardent supporter of nature’s own nuclear fusion as the ART of the Possible Solution to the dangers of climate change, which have [NOW] well and truly ARRIVED so to speak or NOT !!!???…
Added by Michael Grove at 11:46 on September 15, 2021
onservation technologies, bioremediation, wetlands restoration, zero-waste manufacturing, anything that contributes to the health of the planet and its ecosystems.Today, painfully, we are becoming aware of the folly of the delusion that we can, with clever enough technological solutions, avoid the consequences of what we do to the world.
We are learning that we are not separate from nature, and that it bears a wholeness that we ignore at our peril. Our techno-utopian dreams and basic scientific paradigms are unraveling in tandem with many of our social institutions, because the underlying narrative of separation is unraveling as well.
- Charles Eisenstein
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tration of the world's first PAL Interactive Video System,
at the World Trade Centre in London, that they apologised for not
having a meeting room available for discussions, so would I mind
using the canteen !!! Needless to say this was in hindsight the very beginning of my
long-term relationship with Apple and their enthusiastic support
for ALL THINGS MULTIMEDIA which subsequently led to the
establishment of a European-wide network of Interactive Multimedia
Bureaux, that encompassed the integration and utilisation of every
aspect of Large Format Desk Top Printing and publishing. I even
supplied a custom designed system to Oxford University Press, for
the purpose of creating a digital archive of every piece of hand drawn
multi-colour artwork ever created by OUP.
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res from Sucking America Dry (Hardcover)
If you've been following Dylan Ratigan's journalism recently you know he is on a crusade to separate money and politics. This book is the most cogent argument he has come up with yet, detailing how special interests own every aspect of our government. His analysis is so spot on that I can't even think of how someone against getting money out of politics would argue against it.Not only does Dylan explain what the problems facing American society are, he comes offers explanations of how these problems can be fixed along with explanations of how his plans would work. Of course, as long as our politicians are bought by "corporate vampires," as he calls them, things will never change.
The right has done a great job convincing people that government is evil and government is the problem not the solution, but Dylan fights back hard proving that simply turning over complex societal problems to businesspeople who are out only to make money for themselves and their investors is a truly bad idea.…
ile intersections were reconfigured. So sweet was the resulting city air that weekend that environmental enthusiasm went sky high. It was a moment that would change the world.
Three months later Sweden, citing air and other pollution, asked the UN to hold the first-ever international environmental conference, initiating a process that would lead to a groundbreaking gathering in its capital in 5 June 1972, the 50th anniversary of which will be marked next week. This was the beginning of a long and slow struggle to find and agree global solutions to these newly understood global environment problem. Twenty years later, the Rio conference would follow in the same month, kicking off UN climate summits, the most recent of which was held in Glasgow last autumn.
Last year’s Cop26 summit in Glasgow achieved more than was expected, with governments giving themselves this year – until another summit, in Egypt in November – in which to do more. So far, not much has happened, but potential exists, not least to cut emissions of methane and similar pollutants, a hitherto neglected measure that could cut the rate of warming in half.
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