of the talks.
They feel that China, the world’s biggest emitter, is doing more than it is given credit for, including plans to peak coal consumption by 2025 and add more new wind and solar power capacity by 2030 than the entire installed electricity system of the US.
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AS Gregory has recently so succinctly brought to my attention there [IS] in[DEED] no better manner of enacting this Art of the Possible than through [THE] POWER of PHOTOGRAPHY
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were shadows, while Putin’s true opponents were imprisoned, exiled or dead. According to this narrative, the 87% who voted for him were mere victims of coercion, the queues of silent protesters were the stars.
Putin’s vote had nothing to do with democracy. It was a rerun of his 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, a global dressing-up, a rallying of support. As he celebrated his win to an adoring crowd in Red Square on Monday, we saw Putin as the new Ivan the Terrible against a backdrop of Ivan’s St Basil’s cathedral. He even made an offhand quip about his murdered rival Navalny. The image was of absolute power smilingly defying the enemy. Two years ago, he was supposedly crippled by western sanctions. We don’t hear that now.
Simon Jenkins • The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/putin-dictator-tyrant-criticism-regime…
een provided than - "FROM A PIONEER IN THE FIELD OF MENTAL HEALTH" and his groundbreaking book on the HEALING POWER OF 'MINDSIGHT' - the capacity for INSIGHT and EMPATHY that allows one, as an integral part of the ONE, to make positive changes in your brain - such that THE MIND is in control of the BRAIN - NOT the BRAIN in control of the MIND.
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prices is only $10 to $15.
We must still face the overwhelming fact that global energy supply is on a knife-edge regardless of events in the Gulf - with no relief in sight.
The IEA warned in its annual report that energy demand will rise 40pc by 2035.
The world must invest $1.5 trillion just to avoid a lethal crunch. Even then prices are likely to rise “viciously” unless nuclear power and the renewable family of hydro, wind, and solar can come to the rescue. Fukushima has killed nuclear expansion in Japan, Germany, and beyond. The green drive has faltered, oddly vilified in this country by conservatives who should be its natural defenders.…
th to percolate through society. But the time is ripe now for evolving our stories from that meaningless purposeless decaying old universe to a conscious, living universe and planet Earth.
We must become active co-creators of our own reality once we realize we have the power - and the responsibility—to change it intentionally, day by day, even minute by minute.
Elisabeth Sahtouris
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ical choreography encourages the mind and body to work together. This not only develops coordination and balance; tai chi boosts the brain and memory as efficiently as both serious mental exercises and strenuous aerobic exercise. The grounding nature of the moves and emphasis on bringing awareness to the lower body can help people who are “stuck in their heads” after a day in the office. Doctors acknowledge that tai chi improves arterial compliance, i.e. expansion and contraction of the arteries, which is crucial for heart health, whereas strength training alone brings about a decline in arterial compliance. In tai chi the emphasis is on internal development powering the external. It may
not produce six-packs but it has given tiny women the capacity to lift cars.
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ed to be. Being a stream quantity and not a stock quantity (as 'economic growth' wrongly suggests), GNP can be compared to a running tap. As long as thirst is humanity's main need and want, a faster running tap correlates with more well-being and a decrease in suffering that impedes human flourishing. This correlation becomes less when some people, having quenched their thirst, use it to indulge other wants, when a faster running tap becomes a measure of status and power and when restricting others' access to one's tap induces ruinous conflicts. I define economics as (our study of) the way in which we organize that people get what they need (some more than that, others not at all). Or, less morally biased: (our study of) the way in which we organize that people get what they want.The KEY CONCEPT is 'WANT'...http://wim.nusselder.antenna.nl/schrijfsels/economics.htm
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rstand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today’s successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world’s rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing — and what the victors of this age already know.…