‘The
public expectations of the environmental movement have fallen out of register
with the aspirations of thoughtful figures within that movement’.
This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from Neil
Everndens’ ‘Natural Alien’ (2nd Edit. 1993).
Monday 27 July 2015
Monday 20 July 2015
Naomi Orestes and Eric M. Conway - 'The Collapse of Western Civilisation'
‘Bridge
to renewables’ – The logical fallacy, popular in the first decades
of the 21st century, that the problem of greenhouse gas emissions
from fossil fuel combustion could be solved by burning more fossil fuels,
particularly natural gas. The fallacy rested on an incomplete analysis, which
considered only physical by-products of combustion, particularly in electricity
generation, and not the other factors that controlled overall energy use and
net releases of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Taken from the highly plausible 2014 sci-fi
history-from-the-future The Collapse of
Western Civilisation by the American historian-scientists Naomi
Orestes and Eric M. Conway.
Monday 13 July 2015
Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
To live
simply is to be compassionate to yourself and the world. A life full of
material goods and barren of compassion is quite unsustainable.
The July entry in the Tibetan Buddhist 17th
Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in ‘ Cherish the Earth’ the 2015
Environment Calendar.
Monday 6 July 2015
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
There lies before us, if we
choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we,
instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as
human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If
you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies
before you the risk of universal death.
Resolution: We invite this Congress, and through it the scientists of the world
and the general public, to subscribe to the following resolution:
“In
view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be
employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we
urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that
their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them,
consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of
dispute between them.”
This week is the 50th
anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto 9 July 1955 signed by
Max
Born
Percy W. Bridgman
Albert Einstein
Leopold Infeld
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Herman J. Muller
Linus Pauling
Cecil F. Powell
Joseph Rotblat
Bertrand Russell
Hideki Yukawa
Percy W. Bridgman
Albert Einstein
Leopold Infeld
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Herman J. Muller
Linus Pauling
Cecil F. Powell
Joseph Rotblat
Bertrand Russell
Hideki Yukawa
all
(excepting Leopold Infeld andJoseph Rotblat) were Nobel Laureates.
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