Martin Luther King, Jr

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 –1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

Human beings, incorrigibly species-centred, have difficulty conceiving that things other than themselves (with the exception of some look alike animals) merit compassionate attention.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ by Stan Rowe.

 

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/Ro993tek_1.html

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

 

Neil Everndens - ‘Natural Alien’

Resourcism is a kind of modern religion which casts all of creation into categories of utility. By treating everything as homogenous matter in search of a use it devalues all……By describing something as a resource we seem to have cause to protect it. But all we really have is a licence to exploit it.

he then goes on to say

Resourcism, in reducing all values to one, may well be the Trojan horse of the industrial state.

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from Neil Everndens’ ‘Natural Alien’ (2nd Edit. 1993).

http://www.dgfg.org/1/post/2011/10/book-review-the-natural-alien-humankind-and-environment-by-neil-evernden.html