Lyndon Johnson

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through…..a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

 

This weeks green thought comes from US President Lyndon Johnson after scientists had explained the ‘greenhouse effect’ caused by the burning of fossil fuels to him in 1965. In February he then gave a ‘Special Message to Congress’ containing this message.

 

 

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

http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Lyndon_Johnson.htm

Thomas Cole - Essay on American Scenery

 ‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our ignorance and folly’

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from the 1835 ‘Essay on American Scenery’ by the american artist Thomas Cole [1801 – 1848],founder of the Hudson River School of art  known for its romantic yet realistic portrayal of American landscape and wilderness.

 

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

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

Richard Adrian Reese

We’re really clever on the tool-making side of the game, and very undeveloped on the foresight side of the game. As resource bubbles pop and industrial civilization collapses, can we use wisdom from sustainable cultures, and not just repeat the same mistakes in the next civilization?  

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from American author/blogger Richard Adrian Reese [wildancestors.blogspot.com]

 

See video at: http://peakmoment.tv/videos/what-is-sustainable-271/#sthash.xgTttQLY.dpuf#

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism

Damon Hoppe and John Gale

In the Twentieth century we where horrified by the ‘murder of people’. In the Twenty first century we will be horrified by ‘the murder of the whole planet’.

 

This weeks green thought comes from Damon Hoppe and John Gale

 

 

Howard Odum - ‘Environment, Power and Society’.

Industrial man no longer eats potatoes made from solar energy, he eats potatoes made from oil.

 

The late American ecologist Howard Odum (1924–2002) in his 1971 book ‘Environment, Power and Society’.

 

http://nctc.fws.gov/history/Articles/PotatoesMadeOfOil.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_T._Odum

 

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