Month: May 2009

WORLD AT GUNPOINT
Or, what’s wrong with the simplicity movement

BY DERRICK JENSEN
Published in the May/June 2009 issue of Orion magazine

A FEW MONTHS AGO at a gathering of activist friends someone asked, “If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?”

The question stuck with me for a few reasons. The first is that it’sthe world, not our world. The notion that the world belongs to us—instead of us belonging to the world—is a good part of the problem.

The second is that this is pretty much the only question that’s asked in mainstream media (and even among some environmentalists) about the state of the world and our response to it. The phrase “green living” brings up 7,250,000 Google hits, or more than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards combined (or, to look at it another way, more than a thousand times more than the crucial environmental philosophers John A. Livingston and Neil Evernden combined). If you click on the websites that come up, you find just what you’d expect, stuff like “The Green Guide: Shop, Save, Conserve,” “Personal Solutions for All of Us,” and “Tissue Paper Guide for Consumers.”

The third and most important reason the question stuck with me is that it’s precisely the wrong question. By looking at how it’s the wrong question, we can start looking for some of the right questions. This is terribly important, because coming up with right answers to wrong questions isn’t particularly helpful.

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Click on the video and find out more about the people who have produced this video. Also, I would recommend you to watch similar videos on their YouTube Channel… mrblue37

The video shows that the Fast Food that we eat is quite correctly termed as Junk Food but a better name would be on the lines of Terminator Food. By that I mean you should consume it only if you have a dying need to die slowly or if you have a killing desire to kill someone slowly. I wonder though how many of us would be able to do so and whether such a choice will be made in time or not. I also wonder how much damage has already been done.

I found it here…

The Bionic Burger @ Permaculture Research Institute Of Australia – Blog

The Permaculture Research Institute Of Australia runs an excellent blog on the challenges that human beings face in the world today. From the developing food crisis, the energy crisis and other crisis that humans face today… More importantly they also talk about The Solutions to these challenges in the form of Permaculture Lifestyle Practices. A Holistic Lifestyle Approach that we need to embrace NOW and in my humble opinion the only choice that we should make IF we want to survive and IF we want the future generations of human beings to have something left for them to survive.