Comments - The MIND - Gaia Community2024-03-29T11:22:14Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A442&xn_auth=noThe best and the most beaut…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-12-12:5313775:Comment:162442013-12-12T07:53:20.950ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The <em>best and the most beautiful things in the</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>world cannot be seen nor even touched</em>, </strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>but</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>just felt…</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The <em>best and the most beautiful things in the</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>world cannot be seen nor even touched</em>, </strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>but</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>just felt in the heart - <span><a href="https://www.hki.org/helen-kellers-life-and-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Helen Keller</a></span></strong></span></p>
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<div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>DOUBLE MAGIC</strong> • </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It was Helen Keller who said ... <br/><br/>"<strong>LIFE is either a daring adventure</strong>, <strong>or nothing</strong>."</span></div>
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<div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><br/> and <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/albert.klamt/posts/935165916511660" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaret Mead</a></strong> who declared ... <br/><br/>"<strong>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful</strong>,</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> committed citizens can change the world</strong>. <br/><strong> Indeed</strong>, <strong>IT IS the only thing that ever has</strong>."<br/><br/><br/><br/></span></div>
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<p></p> Challenging Conventional Wisd…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2010-03-26:5313775:Comment:4432010-03-26T19:20:16.000ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p>Challenging Conventional Wisdoms<br></br> <br></br> Things are hotting up; and not just in terms of soaring temperatures. Politicians, opinion-formers, economists and business gurus all seem now to be jockeying for pole 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.<br></br> <br></br> The ‘solutions’ to climate change repeatedly proferred by Western leaders, think-tanks and board…</p>
<p>Challenging Conventional Wisdoms<br/> <br/> Things are hotting up; and not just in terms of soaring temperatures. Politicians, opinion-formers, economists and business gurus all seem now to be jockeying for pole 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.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Mark Levene & David Cromwell June 2007<br/> <br/> BE ASSURED our <strong>new masters of the globe</strong> are saying to us “<em><strong>rest assured we are not intent on destroying the world, but doing everything in our power to save it.</strong></em>” 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.</p>
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