Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje - ‘Cherish the Earth’

"When we can appreciate the beauty that surrounds us, when we can feel awe and wonder at nature, we have the necessary basis to dedicate ourselves to environmental protection."

 

From the Tibetan Buddhist 17^th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in ‘ Cherish the Earth’ the 2015 Environment Calendar.

 

 

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

http://kagyuoffice.org/

 

Ronald Wright - A Short History Of Progress

….we have excluded environmental standards from trade agreements. Like sex tourists with unlawful lusts, we do our dirtiest work among the poor.

 

Taken from the 2004 book A short history of progress by the Canadian philosopher Ronald Wright.

 

If you want an anti TTIP* and CETA* petition [and you should] - https://stop-ttip.org/

 

* TTIP –Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

* CETA –Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

 

 

If you’re not sure about the petition –

 

Info on TTIP - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html

 

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

 

Info. on CETA - http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/ceta-aecg/index.aspx?lang=eng

 

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

 

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

 

http://www.non-fides.fr/?Five-Facets-of-a-Myth

 

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