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Tag Archives: Ecology
Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
By Jeremy Lent Source: resilience From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. Climate change, avers … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Biology, Climate Change, Consciousness, culture, DNA, Ecology, environment, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Life, mechanistic worldview, nature, Philosophy, science, Scientific Revolution, Self-Organization, society, Technocracy
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Our Vanishing World: Birds
By Robert J. Burrowes At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds. The bird was immensely abundant, as illustrated by this passage … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, war
Tagged Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Dr. Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Ecology, environment, Extinction, habitat destruction, Herbicides, Insects, Neonicotinoids, passenger pigeons, Pesticides, Philosophy, plastics, poaching, psychology, radiation, Socialization, Sociology, Violence, war, wildlife trafficking
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The Need for a Greater Vision: Recognizing Reality
By Jennifer Ladd Source: Resilience Question Beliefs We live in a culture that is embedded in unquestioned beliefs passing as truth. These beliefs are the source of our current crisis. We attempt to solve the problems of degradation of our … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Belief, capitalism, climate disruption, culture, Debt, Ecological Crisis, Ecology, economic instability, Economics, environment, environmental degradation, Extinction, Money, Philosophy, political tension, pollution, Progress, Reality, Resource depletion, science, spirituality, technology, Truth
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Our Vanishing World: Wildlife
By Robert J. Burrowes Throughout its history, Earth has experienced five mass extinction events. See, for example, ‘Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth’. It is now experiencing the sixth. The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which occurred about 439 million years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, education, Environment, History, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 6th Extinction, Biodiversity, Biosphere, civilization, co-extinction, Cognitive Revolution, Ecology, environment, Extinction, extinction cascades, habitat destruction, localized extinctions, Mass Extinction, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Sociology, Violence, Yuval Noah Harari
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Why Activists Fail
By Robert J. Burrowes Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Biosphere, Consumerism, Ecology, Gandhi, geopolitics, Giants: The Global Power Elite, Global Elite, Nonviolent Action, peter phillips, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Violence, war
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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine
By Jason Holland Source: Dissident Voice Depression is built into this machine and the evidence is plastered on the morose faces of people caught in the clutches of its business as usual activities. Depression is found in the insurmountable debts we … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, media, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged capitalism, corporate media, culture, Debt, depression, Ecology, Economics, empire, environment, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Oligarchy, society
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Human Beings are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves that We are Not
By Robert J. Burrowes It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Behavior, Conflict, Conformity, culture, Dysfunction, Earth, Ecology, Education, environment, Individual, obedience, Philosophy, psychology, Self, Socialization, society, Sociology, Violence
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On Becoming Free – What Are We Really Freeing Ourselves For?
By Gary Z. McGee Source: Waking Times “I must create a system or be enslaved by another Man’s.” ~William Blake Becoming free is creating your own virtuous system despite being outflanked by unvirtuous systems controlled by unvirtuous men. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, culture, Ecology, environment, Freedom, Health, Moral Virtue, Morality, nonaggression principle, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, systems
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