Community | April 25, 2009 | 22 comments

Earth's tribes unite against climate threats

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JanforGore
From Arctic Inuit to Pacific Islanders, indigenous peoples from 80 countries are meeting at a summit in Anchorage, Alaska (pdf), this week to forge a common position on climate change. They want an official voice alongside national governments in upcoming negotiations to agree a successor to the Kyoto protocol.

The meeting is emphasising indigenous peoples' histories of adapting to change. But beneath it is the fear that they will be trampled by rich countries trying to cut greenhouse emissions by managing indigenous lands.

"Indigenous peoples have contributed least to the global problems of climate change, but will almost certainly bear the greatest brunt of its impact," says Patricia Cochran, chair of the summit and head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Arctic peoples are hurting as sea ice changes and permafrost melts. The Yup'ik village of Newtok, Alaska, is now moving to higher ground to escape storm surges unleashed by disappearing sea ice and another 26 villages in Alaska are similarly threatened.

On the margins

A report last year (pdf) by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature found that indigenous peoples are concentrated in the marginal lands likely to suffer most from climate change. Pastoralists such as Africa's Samburu already suffer from drought, and islanders face dispossession by rising seas.

But Sam Johnston of the United Nations University, which is helping to organise the Anchorage meeting, says indigenous peoples are also threatened because they are impoverished and have little political power or entitlement to their lands. Many feel their interests are not served by their national governments.
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  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • I apologize to everyone about the delay. Everybody has gotten so used to fancy video presentations that Drawings don't impress much any more. Most people do not realize a Drawing secures a valid patent all the time, not videos.

      Since posting here last I've designed some newer GRAVITY WHEELS and did build one, but it had a slight design flaw easily corrected. I was on my way to doing that when I came up with 2 more designs and had to work them a bit.

      HOWEVER I do have intentions of having three gravity wheels built and running by AUGUST 31 2009 so just hold your horses. I haven't dropped outta the Race. Here's a new picture just made last week for anyone to examine => www.newpath4.com/gravitywheel7antireboundoffsetsystem.gif

      Examine it, see where the Center of Gravity changes in its favor all the way around, and if you LIKE IT BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME is what they told the Bodyguard.

    • 2 years ago
  • sk8bs55
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Healing our planet by returning to our roots as a civilization will go a long way in sustaining this planet for the generations to come.

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
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    • This is the website for 'The Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change' for anyone interested in keeping up with their endeavors.
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      The Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit will bring together 200-300 indigenous participants and observers from around the world to pursue four key objectives:

      1. Consolidate, share and draw lessons from the views and experiences of Indigenous Peoples around the world on the impacts and effects of climate change on their ways of life and their natural environment, including responses;

      2. Raise the visibility, participation and role of Indigenous Peoples in local, national, regional and international processes in formulating strategies and partnerships that engage local communities and other stakeholders to respond to the impacts of climate change;

      3. Analyze, discuss and promote public awareness of the impacts and consequences of programs and proposals for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and assess proposed solutions to climate change from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples; and

      4. Advocate effective strategies and solutions in response to climate change from the perspective of the cultures, world views, and traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, including local, national, regional and international rights-based approaches
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      The indigenous peoples of the world have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to share and truly sustainable ideas to adapt to climate change. Copenhagen must listen to their voices. WE NEED THEM. And it is so sad that this summit did not get media coverage.Yet when the " G8" meets they get worldwide press. To say there is a rift between rich and poor regarding solutions to the climate crisis is an understatement. However, the solutions to this crisis will not be realized effectively until ALL people regardless of economy are afforded an equal voice in this process.

    • 3 years ago
  • Inofuilwell
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      Inofuilwell  
    • Is there any place to see one of these gravity wheels up close and not just the drawings? Are there any working models that can be seen either in person or online?

      In the case of cold fusion, there is some doubt about the measurement of the "energy in" that still causes that technology to have doubters with serious concerns about the math and energy creation equations behind the cold fusion process.

      Are any of the gravity wheels or models - pendulum or otherwise - in operation where power output can be measured?

    • 3 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • You might find this very interesting => http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1743255 (http://hardware.slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1743255 in case it gets broken up just put the pieces together again on the address line).

      Seems some fellows came up with a way to protect the turbines from being destroyed. IT ONLY COSTS $150,000,000.00 which is of course a very reasonable amount of money. SO WHY WON'T IT GET DONE? The answer to that is the population needs reducing.

      Not just less indigenous either. Telephone pole transformers and homes and apartments and businesses too? WHEW. We don't have enough illegal aliens to do all that before 2011/2012. Each unit would require time, manual labor work all of it, whereas setting up an assembly line production of home-based gravity wheels could be done quickly and shipped out daily.

      The white knuckle ride is starting soon & we don't seem to be holding any oars.

    • 3 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • I'm 25% Native American; likely Hopi. I've come back carrying the knowledge for many new engine systems not just gravity, zero pollution systems. The diff is that my systems outproduce windmills, solar and rivers.

      I know how to cool the coastal ocean surfaces and reduce hurricane strength. Plus the system also produces a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF ELECTRIC POWER. America could be off crude oil way before 2012.

      When the solar radiation increases if we want our homes to be running air conditioning systems we will have to have ELECTRICALLY-SHIELDED POWER SOURCES IN OUR HOMES not remote power coming down powerlines. Those power lines are going to act as giant receiving antenna and flood both forwards and backwards, toward home circuit boxes, blowing out the telephone pole-mounted transformers... and backwards blowingout the power-producing turbines.

      The home is the answer; it always was. Everything else starts there first.

    • 3 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • A lot of ideas I had after my accident in 1989 have not been acted on. Many of them would have helped the Native American indigenous people. I was in poor health so the literary quality of my novel was very poor, yet people at the Copyright Office apparently scan through every new work looking for ideas to pass down the line to the military.

      They ignored ideas that help people, especially ideas that get in their way of current projects that keep them in money/$$$$.

      Amazingly the military adapted an idea in my 1989 copyrighted novel for a way UFO's could be using to turn their craft so fast. So the military came out with a new line of jets that TURN SO FAST A HUMAN PILOT WOULD BE CRUSHED TO DEATH so they have to be flown remotely from a gaming console.

      They read my novel alright.

      Had they given me a fraction of royalty money LIKE YOU WOULD EXPECT GOD'S COUNTRY TO DO HIS HOLY NATION I could have changed the world already, but those in power made sure I always ran into a roadblock. My answer to that was that I started telling about some of my better engines for free.

      Reminds us of the irresistible force meeting the immoveable object quandary. I have never fully embraced the Global Warming theory but due to the sheer mass of humanity -plus all the animals breathing up the world's oxygen from the smaller rain forest's air- we do have what I call a CLIMATE SEESAW that has a noticeably increased modulation aka speeded up.

      Which freezes faster?, a cup of cold water or a cup of warm water? The answer is THE WARM WATER . Those years from 1998 through say last year warmed the planet up enough to cause an ICE AGE TO BE SET UP. That's what they really expect around the next bend in the curve. If we don't come up with a home-based mini energy source AND QUICK the Earth is about to be re-fertilized.

      I'm working on it => http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne and some other fellows are also working on it with other designs than on that page. Their choice was to run with pendulums around the wheel's rim. I have recently surrended a life insurance policy for the money to build these Gravity Wheel devices so that's what is holding things up for the next 1-3 weeks.

      Having a device in each family's home or apartment should pull some of the load off the indigenous Native Americans as well a good few others similarly being squeezed.

    • 3 years ago
  • Inofuilwell
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  • JanforGore
  • Debrinconcita
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      Debrinconcita  
    • I wish the World would listen to the indigineous people, but they haven't ever listen so far. They have taken lands and ruined there resources and forbade them to hunt and fish. They are the experts that know all about these lands and they know possibly how they can be remedied, if that's even possible. They should at least let them try before it's too late forever!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Probably be in the middle of May to middle of June but we're working to do the earlier as possible. I made a formal announcement on March 03 '09 here => http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne but I'm not the only one making them. Some other guys there are working on three other designs that use pendulum weights.

      Mine do not use pendulums; they're the hard way. Besides, if they're to go in people's apartments and homes they need to be lightweight as possible not heavy enough to crash through the floor.

      I came on here early to get the word out. Wind and Solar are not powerful enough nor regular enough to depend on but Gravity Man it's always there, never gives up and never stops. The trick is to design an engine system and place it in the flow.

      I had my first one last year but it was so simple I decided not to work on it, thinking NO ONE WOULD BUY IT because it wasn't hard enough. People just seem to always favor the exotic ideas. But then this February I had the other ideas and then it became obvious I really did need to get with the program.

      Since February I've designed two more, plus I worked with the other guys on pendulums and there's at least 3-4 using them. We are all close to crossing the barrier but I believe I might be the first.

      We'll see. It isn't a race of us against each other. I think we're just tired of paying so much for Energy. I have many other engine systems. One I completed design on in Feb. 2008 is a car engine that works like a Mechanical Heart pushing fluid against turbine blades.

      So I'm trying to push the Gravity Wheel onto a new website so people can see it and I can get back to my real love. How would you all like to have an Electric car engine that generates its own electricity? None of that wet noodle charge it overnite for 4 hours driving the next day stuff.

      I have a new type of solar engine that doesn't use solar cells at all and cost a fraction. I've also designed a system for all the States bordering the oceans to generate MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF POWER far above mere tidal power. I tried offering the design to Massachusetts but you know how it is.

      They check yer Credit Score & decide you aren't worth the time a day.

      Their loss.

    • 3 years ago
  • darkhorsejim
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      darkhorsejim  
    • Our united voices are only growing louder as climatic conditions & global forecasts worsen. Gov'ts can no longer ignore the cries of their citizens over concerns for their corporate backers & special interest groups.

    • 3 years ago
  • vistapoint
  • spoonieday
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      spoonieday  
    • Hey check out the book All Our Relations:Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke if you are interested in learning about and supporting actions taken by native groups throughout America. She details many different organizations that have taken it upon themselves to act without waiting for federal or tribal approval. Its a really good read!

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • IF (big if) companies understood just how much more stuff they would be selling if people were using natural energies. Not many people know it but soon we're going to have designs for gravity-powered wheels that will turn a large enough electric generator for each home on earth to have its own power source ON SITE.

      I will be releasing two of them within the next few months, for showing how they work. I won't have them pushing a generator as yet for a lack of funds but I expect the world to grab their simple designs and run the football across the goal line without my needing lots of money.

      Perhaps Richard Branscom's group, who knows?

    • 3 years ago
  • Debrinconcita
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      Debrinconcita  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I think this would be the best thing for everyone and all of the world if their was a way to generated our own electricity. I am very interested in acessing this option for my home. I don't think the State's Electric Co.s will be interested in this, because they would lose alot of money. Even though it would help everyone and everything in the long run. But, the Govt. isn't really interested in saving us money, just themselves!

    • 3 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I'm not sure if the power companies will lose income, if no one has an income to give to them. We're all becoming paupers out here, with nothing left to send Big Power. I emptied out my refrigerator a couple days ago, unplugged the sucker. I had timed it, and without even opening the door it was running its energy hog compressor 32 minutes out of every hour.

      OF THE DAY. To keep Strawberry Jelly cold.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • What are the chances that this G8 type treaty meeting in December will really face what these indigenous peoples are experiencing and use that to guide the world to an equitable treaty? Well, you can be sure that $$$$$ as always will be the focus.

      I too believe these concerns are valid and am glad to see these tribes and Pacific islanders banding together to have their voices heard. It is a moral imperative that the impoverished islands and nations that contribute so little to the exacerbation of global warming not be trampled by rich nations there looking for a way to benefit from their resources.

    • 3 years ago
  • sk8bs55
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