r as inanimate, to imply that the female, earthly side of things is inert, is just an object.
If we want to really throw a monkeywrench into the workings of the patriarchy, then we should stop speaking as though matter is in any way, at any depth, inanimate or inert.
Every indigenous, oral culture that we know of - every culture that has managed to sustain itself over the course of many centuries without destroying the land that supports it - simply refuses to draw such a distinction between animate and inanimate matter. David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implication
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na-registered floating crane, snapped in two on Saturday after being struck by tropical storm Chaba, which had sustained wind speeds of 68 miles per hour.
After three crew members were found, Hong Kong authorities said on Sunday the chances of finding further survivors is “slim”. But the following morning it was confirmed a fourth had been rescued.
A search had been suspended overnight on Saturday as weather conditions had made it too difficult for rescue teams, Hong Kong’s Marine Department said.
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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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ish, whose collective mind-set has been manipulated to believe that -
ALL criticism is inherently DESTRUCTIVE.
In response to Michelle Goldberg's "Brave New World" online Tablet Magazine article - I can only concur with the comment therein posted on January 27th 2012 -
"I like to consider myself an open minded person and while there is an amount of conspiracy hysteria involved in the Zeitgiest documentaries, there is one unavoidable fact that emerges from all of them. That it is the monetary system, as we know it, that is doomed to failure. [IT]’s just a matter of when.
Man can’t create synthetic steel, water, oil etc. These resources WILL run out eventually and as our economic system is based entirely on the consumption of these it has to fail. Then what will we do? With No TV’s, Cars, etc. We will be left with no option but to return to a sustainable lifestyle i.e organic farming. Some will call me a communist among other things which is a natural reaction from people who really don’t grasp the long term consequences of our lifestyle as a species.
I have no political agenda here, I’m just one of many people facing up to the facts."
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that should inspire localists around the world to join the movement against these treaties.
For instance, a recent Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) report notes that Malaysia currently “prohibits foreign investment in supermarkets, fostering the development of locally owned grocery stores”.[vi] Several chapters in the TPP could directly challenge this law and open the way for Wal-Mart or other transnational supermarket chains to put locally-owned stores out of business. Study after study have shown that these big-box corporate behemoths are an “economic cancer” on our communities.[vii]
The TPP and TTIP could also include provisions that prevent local and national governments from instituting pro-local procurement programs, such as local purchasing preferences that favor sustainable and locally grown foods (e.g. Farm to School programs in the US). According to IATP trade expert, Karen Hansen-Kuhn: “Both the U.S. and EU have criticized ‘localization barriers to trade’. The EU, in particular, has been insistent on the inclusion of procurement commitments in TTIP at all levels of government, for all goods, and in all sectors…”[viii]
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d RSA animate, marks the beginning of an AWAKENING to the fact that -
CREATIVITY for the purpose of POSITIVE ENHANCEMENT of the EVOLUTIONARY
ADVANCEMENT of the entirety of our multiverse of universes - IS of THE most paramount
importance with respect to the appropriate design of a sustainable solution for ALL of LIFE
throughout the ENTIRETY of EVERYTHING !!!???
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ood and transport, are able to operate; and second, that as many firms as possible survive and can therefore sustain our economy after the virus has passed.
The Government deserves credit for its action so far. It has provided clear expert-led advice, using organisations like the CBI to speak directly to firms. And while public health has rightly been put first, much-needed support has also been provided to enterprise.
Fast coordinated action between the Bank of England, and the Treasury including interest rate reductions, business rates suspension and sick pay support, made an immediate difference. And it is right that the needs of small business were put first.
But this is just the start. As the health needs of the nation grow, so too does the economic need. And it extends well beyond small businesses – some of our largest companies and biggest employers are at risk, with possible large-scale failures and job losses without fast action.
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hat if you morphed them to create autonomous communities that have the ability to connect globally - symbiotically? And what if those autonomous communities implemented their own form of value exchange and governance that were interdependent on surrounding (globally) autonomous communities? What would you call them? Charter Cities and Communities. These Communities would be resilient to climate change because they would produce their own foods, buildings, and energy. Without relying on a centralized grid or system to do so. Yet they would be able to share their goods and services globally. Could these Charter Communities be a significant first step to transforming humanity toward a regenerative and benevolent society? Could they also set precedence for how Humans would exist in Space and the Universe? Do they fulfill the recommendations of the Wisdom Traditions and Thought Leaders throughout history to build new systems that makes the old ones obsolete? Yes. Are they the be-all, end-all solution, no. But they are a tangible start. And that is what we need. Some type of platform to build upon. One that is chartered to be regenerative with a foundational value for life itself.
Paul Quaiser - Human Sustainability Institute
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