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Campaign 2.0: Turtle vs. Tata, the Game - India Real Time...
Participative campaigning from Greenpeace India.
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The Hindu : News : Orissa tribals suffer human rights vio...
Vedanta Resources is going to hold their AGM in London next month. Please add your name to our pe...
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Do you use a horseless carriage, do you eat, do you live?
This is not just the fault of an oil company - but all of us - we want the consumer products - an...
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Cree aboriginal group to join London climate camp protest...
Cree coming to London. Find out more about the Lubicon Cree http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_det...






Grapes of Wrath
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24) Empty Table
‘...The year is 2085 and Yasmin’s teacher has taken the small class to the local museum .Their assignment is to discover how their ravaged world has come to be. As they enter the darkened central chamber, a single ray illuminates the object displayed on a blackened pedestal, a thing so forbidding that its vague form – let alone the messages it contains- sends a chill of horror through the awed children. As they draw closer they begin to feel its power. Closer and they can at last make out what is, this fount of all the ruin, the suffering, the hunger, the loss. It is a cookbook.
Those raised on conventional museums are accustomed to the guns, swords, religious symbols, and legal documents with which our thuggish ancestors imposed their views on their fellows, or died in the attempt. The victors had the privilege of framing history the way they liked. In the food wars to come, however, there will be no victors - only victims, and they will see the matter differently. The typical early twenty-first century cookbook, with its gorgeous illustrations, elegiac combinations of the failing fruits of the Earth with those that cost us the climate, water, soil, and our safety to produce is, unambiguously, a recipe for disaster on a planetary scale...’
Extract from the book : The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb (publisher University of California press).
The conveyor belt of death: Secret footage shows how millions of unwanted British chicks are killed every year
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Bag for shopping and recycling - so fostering 'feeling good' about consumerism - don't buy it.
19) Circus
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11) McU&Me (and another 6+billion mouths to feed –everyday)
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Art composition by Hugh Thomas. Feb 10.
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74 Whangarei 'studies' 09-10. Art composition by Hugh Thomas
Ref: Ken Yeang
://www.sustainingtowers.org/SOA-present.htm
Interesting, and addresses population needs - but does not resolve population explosion problems eg increasing waste/sewage caused by consuming goods, food, water, electricity etc. This waste has to go somewhere and will occur no matter how 'green' people become. The crux will always return to the dynamic of human population numbers - the politics of consumerism (which is no bad thing-at some levels), and religious views about sanctity of human life( although other life does not seem to matter - even though the ultimate dynamic is indeed determined by other life i.e. biodiversity)
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"Advertising is an instrument for construction of people's everyday reality, so we could use the same media to construct a cultural paradigm in which conspicuous consumption is despised," he says. "We've got to make people ashamed to be seen as a 'future eater'." [William Rees (Professor - University of British Columbia (UBC)).]
Whether we're capable of such a counter-revolution is doubtful, both because of our state of personal denial and because of the huge power of industry to continue seducing us.
Consumerism is 'eating the future' 07 August 2009 by Andy Coghlan New Scientist
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..we're doing is what all other creatures have ever done to survive, expanding into whatever territory is available and using up whatever resources are available, just like a bacterial culture growing in a Petri dish till all the nutrients are used up. What happens then, of course, is that the bugs then die in a sea of their own waste... ( Consumerism is 'eating the future' by Andy Coghlan, New Scientist)
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