Jesus - Matthew 7:1

Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You

This weeks Green Thought comes from just about every ancient writing about behavioural precepts (including the New Testament (Matthew 7:1), Talmud, Koran, and the Analects of Confucius).

Albert Bartlett

 It is an inconvenient truth that all proposals or efforts to slow global warming or to move toward sustainability are serious intellectual frauds if they do not advocate reducing populations to sustainable levels at the local, national and global scales.

This weeks Green Thought comes from  the late Albert Bartlett [1923 – 2013] former Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Allen_Bartlett

A must-see video – The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See       A talk by Professor Bartlett – Arithmetics, Population and Energy.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&list=PL6A1FD147A45EF50D

 

Lao Tzu

A person that knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Lao Tzu, the 6^th century BC philosopher and poet of ancient China.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

 

Garrett Hardin

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Garrett Hardin (1915 – 2003) was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Hardin

Karl Popper

The alleged clash between freedom and security …….. turns out to be a chimera. For there is no freedom if it is not secured by the state; and conversely, only a state which is controlled by free citizens can offer them any reasonable security.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Karl Popper an Austrian-British^[5] philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.

 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper