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24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching (2015)
The World is Watching 2015
It’s not every day that you can say you were a part of history. On November 13-14, the world will come together to demand our global leaders act on climate change and set us on the path to a better future. Join us for 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth.
~ Learn more at The Climate Reality Project
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Thanks for sharing, Rosaliene! Hopefully more momentum can be build, with Keystone not approved…
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Cicorm, we have to continue pushing our governments to take bold action. Small palliative measures won’t be enough.
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Rosaliene, we need to encourage the correct people to get things done, not just the government, but the ordinary people, businesses, unions as well. There will be sacrifices that ordinary people have to bear. Best if they are ready, to work together share solutions and to improve things, taking into account the full picture. If the ordinary people are not ready, the extreme negative case may occur, ie the reversal of climate protection policy due to economic pain and backlash.
I think you are right that more can be done, but we do need to answer the questions of how to prevent negative impacts as well.
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I agree with you, Cicorm. We-the-people will have to change the way we live, to make sacrifices. But without our leaders on board, without the laws and policies that we need to change to a more sustainable way of life, our gains will continue to be local and insufficient to end our dependence on fossil fuels. Earth’s atmosphere is shared by us all.
For the first time, humankind faces a common crisis that can only be resolved with the cooperation of the world’s nations, especially those who have contributed and now contribute the most to this crisis. Are we capable of such cooperation? How will our endless wars affect our ability to come together for the survival of humanity?
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Clearly, we do vary somewhat on the sequencing, be it climate protection, poverty or peace. Your emphasis is probably more direct (leaders), and my emphasis more on foundational support, likely due to difference in experiences.
Nevertheless, we are agreed all need to do their part, and of course climate protection. I think that is important common ground.
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Cicorm, it’s not unusual that we disagree on the sequencing of climate action. It’s a very complex situation that affects humanity’s way of life on all fronts. That’s what makes it so difficult for us to confront the crisis and to move forward in meaningful ways.
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for spreading the word, Cyril. If we fail at the upcoming Paris Conference, our civilization is doomed.
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Symphony of Science: Al Gore on Climate Reality
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Cyril, thanks for sharing this video. It’s a clever way to get the message out. Words put to music is easier to memorize, internalize, and spread.
The power of the fossil fuel industry to hold our world hostage is incredible.
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One of the issues standing in the way of important sacrifices is our evolutionary programming. Men, in particular, achieved mating and evolutionary success (producing healthy children who survived and produced more) by competing with other men. One of the ways they did this was to demonstrate (by the accumulation of wealth, goods, and status) that they were a good bet to be able to attract and support healthy females and the children they had together. Evolutionary theory and supportive research posits that women are historically more discriminating than men in choosing a mate in this way than men, who are more drawn by physical appearance. The upshot of all this is that we are drawn to compete (or mate with) people who, quite literally have material things (cars, large houses, air-conditioned homes, etc). Such things also contribute to our carbon footprint. If we are to beat climate change we all will have to struggle against our still-present evolution-drive programming to get more and more “things.”
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Interesting reasoning, Dr. Stein. This theory would most definitely apply to societies, like ours in the West, where people are driven “to get more and more things.” However, I don’t share your view that this is due to an “evolution-drive.” From my observation, our drive for material consumption has been ingrained in the minds of peoples from the moment of birth through advertising for the simple purpose of increasing sales and profits. That is the nature of capitalism.
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You are certainly correct, Rosaliene, about advertising and capitalism. But history tells us that men have been trying to impress the opposite sex for thousands of years of recorded history, doing so in a variety of ways, long before capitalism and advertising. Moreover, the evolutionary psychology research supports what I’ve written. You might want to take a look at the work of Douglas Kendrick on the subject.
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Thanks for the referral, Dr. Stein. I haven’t read any of Kendrick’s work. Which one of his books would you recommend?
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“Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life” provides commentary of the current state of thought and research on evolutionary psychology. I think you’d enjoy it, Rosaliene. I’ll actually be posting an essay tomorrow on our understanding of our competitive nature, some of which is based on evolutionary psychology.
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Thanks, Dr. Stein. I’ve added it to my To Read List. Sounds like a must-read for women.
As always, I look forward to reading your post on the theme.
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Yet, a high probability that world poverty will be ended in 2030, for the first time in history, w/o animosity. It will have taken 40 years from 1990 to raise the 2 billion from poverty, Some may say it is still done too slowly, but it is nevertheless a world first vs thousands and thousands of years. .
I do intend to explain the immense power of awareness in detail and scientifically in a future post. I think the extent will shock >99% of readers..
Do have a beautiful weekend, Rosaliene!
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Cicorm, with all the money the USA alone spends on its military budget, we could end global poverty right now in 2015. Poverty is the end result of our global capitalist economic system.
Human awareness of the forces that control our lives would indeed be an immense power for freeing ourselves from corporate strangulation. That’s why the global media giants keep us in the Dark Ages. Those who dare to reveal the truth to humanity are severely punished.
I look forward, as always, to reading more of your inspirational and enlightening articles about our human condition and the means to personal upliftment.
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Thank you for sharing, Rosaliene. I don’t think the current situation is perfect as well, though am positive overall. We do have different views probably due to our dissimilar backgrounds e.g. My country /region directly experienced the horrors of WW2 and Communist attacks. Globally more than a hundred million perished, and even more suffered. While we are fortunate not been in a war ever since, few quibble that our security spend is higher than the US on relative terms etc. In fact, we have little doubt a strong defence helps us keep our prosperity and freedom.
Others areas to share: Capitalism (seen probably at closer range how the Communists and others welcome capitalism, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty etc), Problems faced (too much general apathy online and in the real world), and the power of real awareness to solve the world’s ill in short time.
Let’s take our time to slowly work through all these, and benefit from each others’ knowledge and understanding!
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Cicorm, I’m always open to different ways of viewing our world and our lives. Seeing the world through your eyes can only enrich my vision of the world.
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I agree with you both Rose and Dr. Stein – this may be too cynical for you but I often think what this world, our world needs is another Big Bang.
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Angela, as the War on Terror escalates, that Big Bang becomes more of a possibility. Moreover, if we fail to kick our addiction to fossil fuels – all tied to our endless wars in the oil-rich Middle East – we’ll be signing our death sentence.
With all of our technological advances, the human species has a long way yet to go in our evolutionary process as higher intelligent beings.
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