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"Americans"
is a short, public service film starring Sean Penn and Kid Rock, directed by Jameson Stafford. The goal of the film is to tear down the one-dimensional political stereotypes portrayed by the media by confronting them head on. It reminds us that what really matters is that we're all Americans, with diverse thoughts, opinions and stances on issues. We are millions of unique, individual parts, the sum of which comprise a whole that is the shining beacon of freedom throughout the world.
The film reminds us to be proud of our differences, and to never forget that we're all in this together as Americans."Americans"
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I keep trying to have hope that the right thing will be done here and in all places where such harsh conditions exist. For this is a primer to a world of climate change/biodistress and it is one in which what we see now is exactly what has been predicted by climate scientists for years. Should these lands be rendered uninhabitable where would these millions of people go? How would they be provided for? We already know the answer to this and it is a totally inhumane, unconscienable and unacceptable answer.
And I know I have posted about this several times in the last week. And that's because it's that important.
And let me also add that we alll know droughts happen in Africa. The difference now is the scope, pace, severity and patterns which can be seen now, especially by those who live in these areas and know the land.
http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2011/07/climate-changebiodistress-test-of.html
All information posted so far on this drought can be found here.I keep trying to have hope that the right thing will be done here and in all places... more
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Editor’s Note: We’re posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week because of the holidays. It’ll return to its regular Friday morning posting next week. Until then, Happy New Year!
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
2010 was a disappointing year for environmentalists.
This was the year Congress was supposed to pass climate change legislation, but each and every time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seemed on the verge of pushing the bill forward, the effort fell short. In April, off the coast of Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon explosion led to one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history, and in the aftermath, neither President Barack Obama nor Congress has pushed for the sort of strong regulations that would rein in the oil industry and the risk it poses to coastal ecosystems.
Meanwhile, a newly invigorated natural gas industry has been plowing forward with a controversial drilling technique called hydrofracking. Although the Environmental Protection Agency has committed to studying the environmental impacts of the practice, it’s unclear at this point how much leeway the industry will be given to use techniques that have contaminated water and air across the country. Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben had trouble convincing the president to take the small symbolic act of reinstalling a solar panel on the White House roof. And in November, the country elected a group of lawmakers who are skeptical that climate change even exists.
Hope springs eternal
But the news was not all bad, as Change.org’s Jess Leber reports. In California, green-minded voters defeated a proposition that would have rolled back the state’s ambitious climate law. Coal-fired power plants are closing in states like Oregon and Colorado, and mountaintop removal coal mining is losing its funding. And cities like New York, Washington D.C., Denver and Minneapolis made it easier for their inhabitants to use bikes as a primary mode of transportation.
“All over the world, activists are fighting in their states, towns and cities to do right by the environment,” Leber writes. “They are also moving to pressure the corporate world. So while, given the results of Election Day in the U.S., progress in Congress will be an uphill battle, I’m confident there will be even more victories to report this time next year.”
A year can be a long time. Consider, for instance, Steph Larsen’s reflections on her farm’s first year. “I feel like I’ve lived a decade in the last 12 months,” Larsen writes in Grist. Last year, her pasture did not exist, and the farm buildings on her land had sat unused for years. But in the past 12 months, she’s grown cherries and tomatoes and squash, kept chickens and hunted for their eggs, and raised livestock that later became her dinner.
Larsen’s goals for her farm are modest: “to grow food for her household and community.” It can be hard sometimes to see how individual choices like hers can make a difference while global leaders cannot agree on how to reduce carbon emissions and industry continues to exploit and pollute the environment. But as Winslow Myers, the author of Living Beyond War, writes at Truthout, “the cause-and-effect relationship between what I do personally in my daily life and those planet-wide challenges has become infinitely clearer” over the past 50 years:
Now we can see how the two are connected – between my diet and the effect of industrial agriculture on the land, between my energy consumption and global climate change, between the chemicals in my laundry detergent and the health of the oceans – and between my political commitments and the world-destroying weapons built with my tax dollars….the reality is that I am so deeply connected to the whole entity that I am responsible for it, answerable to it.
Local leaders step into the breach
It’s true that individual decisions to turn down the heat, or eat local food, or bike instead of drive cannot turn back global warming. But in aggregate, they do make an impact. And although nationally and internationally, politicians are finding it difficult to create strong policies on climate change, that would reduce emissions, not all lawmakers are avoiding the issues. Franke James’ visual essay on climate change at Yes! Magazine puts it like this: “Don’t be fooled by the global leaders loafing. Local leaders and cities are making plans to adapt to climate change (because it’s affecting them NOW!) “
And ultimately, these sorts of decisions on local and individual levels do send a signal to leaders that their constituents care about keeping the planet healthy, care about preserving our environmental resources. To that end, check out these ideas for individual action from the staff and readers of Mother Jones.
And next year? Leaders like Bill McKibben are working to create a global movement around climate change, a people-driven movement that will convince legislators and negotiators that it is incumbent upon them to act. Look for them to start making lots of noise in 2011.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about the environment by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Mulch for a complete list of articles on environmental issues, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Pulse, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.Editor’s Note: We’re posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week... more
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Baha'is of India have established a National Baha'i Council Under the Provisions of the Covenant and proclaim that the line of King David continues in Baha'u'llah's great-great grandson.
THE ASIAN AGE, Friday, October 15, 2010
BAHA'I COUNCIL CENTRE IN CITY
"FOUNDER DESCENDED FROM KING DAVID"
Age Correspondent
Mumbai
Oct. 14: Throwing the gauntlet at all other sects of the Baha'i faith in the country, the Baha'i Under the Provisions of the Covenant (BUPC) has formed the National Baha'i Council in India, with it's centre at Mumbai. The BUPC believes that Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i faith, was a descendant of King David. It also believes that the throne line did not end with the death of the first guardian Shoghi Effendi but is kept alive by the great-great -grandson of Baha'u'llah, Neal Chase Ben Joseph Aghsan.
According to BUPC members, the throne line of King David, which functions as the hereditary sign to recognize the true Universal House of Justice (UHJ) of Baha'u'llah, has been mistakenly construed to have ended in 1957. Citing Psalm 89, wherein God promises King David that his descendants would rule on his throne forever, the BUPC believes that this prophecy that was fulfilled by the coming of Baha'u'llah is still kept alive by Neal Chase and he is the rightful president of the UHJ.
The BUPC maintains that peace will be established when all of mankind recognizes this true spiritual government. Blaming Ruhiyyih Khanum, wife of Shoghi Effendi and the Hands for trying to reduce the importance of the UHJ, the BUPC maintains that the act was aimed at turning the faith into an oppressive organized religion, in stark contrast to the principles of the faith.Baha'is of India have established a National Baha'i Council Under the... more
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The idea of a global currency has been kicking around for several years now, most visibly in last year’s G20 meeting in Pittsburgh — a clear sign that the march toward world government, also known as the “new world order,” is very much on track. A new investigation suggests that the global currency won’t be just another euro — a globalized fiat money. Instead, it will be based on carbon, and this will bring it into alignment with a variety of concerns, including fossil fuels depletion (also known as "peak oil") and anthropogenic climate change (ACC), as well as the belief among the new world orderlies that populations need to be monitored and controlled.
Patrick Wood — one-time collaborator with ace investigator Antony Sutton and founder of The August Review — is best known as one of the foremost authorities on the Trilateral Commission. He has here assembled circumstantial evidence that the global elite could soon begin considering a carbon currency as a live option: as, in his words, “the ultimate solution to global calls for poverty reduction, population control, environmental control, global warming, energy allocation and blanket distribution of economic wealth.” To think in these terms would be to revive technocracy, which Wikipedia defines as “a system of government where those who have knowledge, expertise or skills compose the governing body.”
What would result is an economic system based on energy allotments instead of price measured in terms of fiat currencies. The latter are slowly collapsing all over the world as individuals, corporations, and governments all drown in seas of debt accrued from living beyond their means. In other words, in the scenario Wood envisions, the global elite would move to eliminate money, understood as fiat money decoupled from backing by a commodity such as gold, and replace it with a system of carbon credits that would be allocated to every person, possibly monthly.
This would mean “authoritarian and centralized control over all aspects of life, from cradle to grave.” Each individual would receive a unique identifier at birth, possibly in the form of an RFID-embedded identification card. The global ID would follow him or her through life and record the specifics of the person’s schooling, test results, work history, physical location including travel history if any, consumption patterns, health and medical history, and so on. It could not be stolen, since the individual ID would be designed to work only for the person it is assigned to. The global ID could also be implanted under one’s skin. An implant would have the advantage that the person could never lose or misplace it.
Here is Wood’s speculation on how the system might work. “In a nutshell, carbon currency will be based on the regular allocation of available energy to the people of the world. If not used within a period of time, the Currency will expire (like monthly minutes on your cell phone plan) so that the same people can receive a new allocation based on new energy production quotas for the next period.” In other words, there would no point in saving, as with cash. At the end of the cycle, any unused credits would immediately lose their purchasing power.
Wood continues, “Because the energy supply chain is already dominated by the global elite, setting energy production quotas will limit the amount of Carbon Currency in circulation at any one time. It will also naturally limit manufacturing, food production and people movement."
“Local currencies could remain in play for a time, but they would eventually wither and be fully replaced by the Carbon Currency, much the same way that the Euro displaced individual European currencies over a period of time.”
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I began my life in the mid 60s. My father was in the Air Force at the time so we didn't stay in one place long. The thing about being a military 'brat' is that you learn to adapt and to make friends quickly. My travels included living in a trailer at a military base, stays in Wisconsin, Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, California, Illinois and back to Kentucky. Not long after graduating high school I started my own business. My business had clients in all counties of Kentucky and some in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. After ten years the business closed and I took a job traveling all over the country; a new town in a new state every week. Occasionally, I was hired to travel out of the country. On one trip we left Detroit and entered Canada. I had several days off of work so after the wedding I attended in Canada I decided to drive across Canada hugging the small rural roads near the Great Lakes and making my way to Niagara Falls. From there we left for Kentucky through the states. I even spent 4 weeks in San Juan and befriended a cab driver immediately at the airport. The rest of the time, when I had free time, I road around with the cab driver to get a native's perspective and meet his passengers. Why do I tell you this? I tell you this to lend credentials to what I am about to tell you. We are all the same, basically. The average Joe is the average Joe no matter where you go.
So....why do we fight between the left and the right? Because they told us to.
So....why do we send our brother and sisters off to war? Because they told us to.
So....why did we bail out the same banks that have been ripping us off for years? That's right.
Because they told us to.
So....why do we sit here, helpless, after Geithner stole our money? Because they told us to.
So....why do we allow the war crimes of torture to be committed by our government? Yes, because they told us to.
So....why do we allow our Bill of Rights and Constitution to be shredded by a government 'Of The People'? It's a sure bet, because they told us to.
So....why do we stay inside, watch TV, avoid the sun, the neighbors, the Earth? You got it. Because they told us to.
So....why do we kill thousands of innocent foreigners? Because they told us to?
So....why did we invade Iraq? Because they told us to.
So....why did we stop questioning our government and holding them accountable? Because they told us to?
So....why do we sit here while our planet is destroyed and our brothers and sisters around the globe are murdered in the name of resources and profit? Because they told us to.
We are all one humanity. All with one wish. The wish to be left alone, to live free, to help out our neighbor and expect the same from them. The wish to love one another, cherish freedom, cherish the Earth, and all benefit from what everyone has to offer.
Our governments now have the power to do unimaginable things with technology. The question is WHY? Why do we spend so much on bombs when we are bankrupt? Why do we kick Americans out of their homes when everyone's home could be paid for with the money spent on wars? Why do people still live on the streets in America when shelters could be built in every single town with the money we spend on wars? Why do we allow Banksters to give bonuses at all with the money borrowed from our children's future? Why do we taze little children and elderly women? Why do we allow lobbyists to buy and sell our 'representatives'? Why did the Supreme Court rule that there's no limit to how much a corporation can spend to buy your government? Why did the Detroit 'bomber' get help passing all security while boarding the plane?
WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY.........................?
Time to grow up and stop doing what they tell you to do. Ask questions, demand answers.
Christopher Hignite for We Are Change Ky and Monkey Press copyright 2010I began my life in the mid 60s. My father was in the Air Force at the time so we... more
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I dedicate this to all family at current and those who believe in spirited ways. This year will be the year we make the change for all who are in truth and honor for unity and survival of healing harmonics. I know some are cynical and quite right to be. However there is a place for kind words and the power of dreams. This is from our band DJ Tribe and the album Gaia Evolution. I send this to all that are ready to except new things for 2010. Happy New year family and don't change. You know who you are! oh yeah all this was shot on my iPhone so please excuse the rough cut style! Peace to all and let's do it now!I dedicate this to all family at current and those who believe in spirited ways. This... more
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The extraordinary true story of a man who set out to prove that one could live solely as a citizen of the world -- and won!
In 1948, compelled by the pain of war, Garry Davis gave up everything -- a promising Broadway career (he stood-in for Danny Kaye and got 13 curtain calls!), his well-to-do show-biz family, even his nationality – to become the world’s first official world citizen. He embarked upon a bold adventure, crashing borders, scaling cliffs, escaping a concentration-camp and challenging border guards, prison commandants and warring armies on a one-man mission to heal the wounds of war and to prevent World War III.
“If I can show that it is possible for one man to live in a new global space, above the nation-states that divide us, and still survive, then I’ll prove that it is possible for all of us to choose to live in the higher reality that we are already one planet,” Garry declared in 1948.
With Albert Camus and others, he interrupted squabbling of nations at the UN in Paris, calling for world-wide elections to create a world parliament to outlaw war and make peace. 20,000 war-weary Europeans rallied with him to demand that the UN recognize the rights of humanity. The very next day the Soviet Union stepped aside and allowed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be passed unanimously.
Under the authority of that Declaration, and at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, Garry founded the World Service Authority in Washington DC, which has issued 2 million world passports, IDs, marriage licenses and other documents. (www.worldservice.org) While some nations reject the world passport, 150 Nations have stamped it with Visas. (www.eworldcitizen.com) Thousands of refugees and stateless people have used the World Passport to gain back their identity—and for many their freedom.
Today Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, Jimmy Carter, and other Elders are calling on a billion people to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to make a personal pledge to protect the rights of our fellow global villagers. (www.theelders.org)
For 60 years Garry has lived as a citizen of no nation – only of the world. He’s 86 and still going strong! Now that he has blazed the trail to prove that world citizenship exists, we can each choose to add top level citizenship. We can be citizens not only of our cities, our states, and our nations, but also of the world! This 5-minute short, “One! The Garry Davis Story” was chosen as the 1st place winner from all the entries submitted from around the world for the World Peace Film Awards. (see www.onefilms.com) Please send a link to your friends, and post your comments and reactions on current TV.
“Garry Davis, has grasped the only problem which deserves the devotion of contemporary man, the problem to which I myself am determined to devote the rest of my life, up to my very last day: …the survival of the species. It is a question of…whether mankind – the very universe of man – will disappear by its own hand, or whether it will continue to exist.”
--Albert Einstein, quoted in the transcript of 10/4/1949 hearing before the 14th Court of Corrections in Paris, as translated by Richard V. Carter in Survival Meetings, Writers Club Press, 2001The extraordinary true story of a man who set out to prove that one could live solely... more
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One Love
“Let’s get together and feel alright”. While recording and filming in Dharmsala India, where we planned to add some Tibetan singers to this track we passed by a small record shop on the side of the road. The display featured about 50 Tibetan CD covers and one Bob Marley album in the middle. This song around the world is in dedication to the love inside each of us. We can achieve far more together as a human race than we ever can apart. One Love.One Love
“Let’s get together and feel alright”. While recording... more
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Ever wonder why the automotive technology has changed virtually nothing for the past 100 years?
¿Alguna vez te preguntaste por qué la tecnología automotriz no ha evolucionado, prácticamente en nada, durante los últimos 100 años?Ever wonder why the automotive technology has changed virtually nothing for the past... more
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93 nations in the world still legally punish homosexuality. In 7 of these - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania - gays and lesbians are punished with the death penalty.
Is this the Twenty-First Century or the Dark Ages? Sometimes I really can't tell.93 nations in the world still legally punish homosexuality. In 7 of these - Iran,... more
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Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this captivating documentary explores the perilous state of our planet, and the means by which we can change our course. Contributing to this crucial film are noted politicians, scientists and other ambassadors for the importance of a universal ecological consciousness. The 11th Hour is directed by Nadia Connors and Leila Conners Peterson and features narration from Academy Award® Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed, Blood Diamond). The environmentally friendly DVD packaging is produced with 100% certified renewable resources. A portion of the profits will be donated to Global Green.
http://www.globalgreen.org/
Official site:
http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/mainsite/site.htmlNarrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this captivating documentary explores the perilous... more
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Thousands of handwritten messages to President-elect Barack Obama fill a 24-foot wide wall between the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool in Washington on Thursday. The tribute was erected by Avaaz.org, an eviromental group.Thousands of handwritten messages to President-elect Barack Obama fill a 24-foot wide... more
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Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. http://www.lifeanddebt.org/about.htmlUtilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place"... more
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This is the most vital election in America's history. There are so many things that hang in the balance. The significance goes much deeper than some of the personal issues that so many quibble over. It is not about whether you are a republican or a democrat. Right now the entire world is holding their breath as to the outcome of what we do in this election. There is an extreme build up of energy and tension that is soon to be set free on a global scale. The direction this energy will take us (the human race) is why this election is so important. So many things are intertwined across the globe in such a way that we are no longer impacting only our selves with our choices.
We have two choices in candidates to pick from. They both have distinct differences in their perceptions, desires, and focus of purpose. McCain is of the nature to war first and use diplomacy second; just look at his and Sarah Palin’s response to the attack on Georgia. If we would have attacked Russia as they had implied that we should, Palin would have seen missiles rather than Putin’s head launched over her 40 mile stretch of Bering Strait into Alaska. War mongering is not the mentality we want to continue to spew into the world as a nation.
Diplomacy is extremely vital at this point in the journey of humankind as world tensions are mounting. Barack Obama is of the nature to use diplomacy first and then use military force as a last resort. This is not a weakness as some would like to imply. Look back at President Kennedy’s response to the Cuban missile crisis. If McCain and Palin would have been in power at that time, just imagine how different the world would be now! Please note that Obama will not hesitate to use military force if the situation is warranted.
The rest of the world recognizes these distinct differences between Obama and McCain. It is time for more Americans to see this difference as well. There are an increasing number of staunch republican politicians voicing their support for Barack Obama such as Colin Powell, Scott McClellan, and Chris Buckley. They are realizing that this country needs a change and it is not the one that McCain and Palin will bring. They will bring a change but let’s not go there. Vote Barack Obama and Joe Biden into office and the bulk of the world community will get behind us in making the world a safer, greener, and more stable place. Our economy and the rest of the world economies will once again become stable as well.
Peace
This is the most vital election in America's history. There are so many things... more
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If you haven't seen her yet, here she is. Elizabeth Kucinich is a brilliant and compassionate thinker who knows the issues inside out. She also has more charisma than Hollywood can afford to pay for. If you haven't seen her yet, here she is. Elizabeth Kucinich is a brilliant and... more
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The extraordinary true story of one man who took on all the nations of the world -- and won!
In 1948, compelled by the pain of war, Garry Davis gave up everything -- a promising Broadway career (he stood-in for Danny Kaye and got 13 curtain calls!), his well-to-do show-biz family, even his nationality – to become the world’s first official world citizen. He embarked upon a bold adventure, crashing borders, scaling cliffs, escaping a concentration-camp and challenging border guards, prison commandants and warring armies on a one-man mission to heal the wounds of war and to prevent World War III.
“If I can show that it is possible for one man to live in a new global space, above the nation-states that divide us, and still survive, then I’ll prove that it is possible for all of us to choose to live in the higher reality that we are already one planet,” Garry declared in 1948.
With Albert Camus and others, he interrupted squabbling of nations at the UN in Paris, calling for world-wide elections to create a world parliament to outlaw war and make peace. 20,000 war-weary Europeans rallied with him to demand that the UN recognize the rights of humanity. The very next day the Soviet Union stepped aside and allowed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be passed unanimously.
Under the authority of that Declaration, and at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, Garry founded the World Service Authority in Washington DC, which has issued 2 million world passports, IDs, marriage licenses and other documents. (www.worldservice.org) While some nations reject the world passport, 150 Nations have stamped it with Visas. (www.eworldcitizen.com) Thousands of refugees and stateless people have used the World Passport to gain back their identity—and for many their freedom.
Today Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, Jimmy Carter, and other Elders are calling on a billion people to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to make a personal pledge to protect the rights of our fellow global villagers. (www.theelders.org)
For 60 years Garry has lived as a citizen of no nation – only of the world. He’s 86 and still going strong! Now that he has blazed the trail to prove that world citizenship exists, we can each choose to add top level citizenship. We can be citizens not only of our cities, our states, and our nations, but also of the world! This 5-minute short, “One! The Garry Davis Story” was chosen as the 1st place winner from all the entries submitted from around the world for the World Peace Film Awards. (see www.onefilms.com) Please send a link to your friends, and post your comments and reactions on current TV.
“Garry Davis, has grasped the only problem which deserves the devotion of contemporary man, the problem to which I myself am determined to devote the rest of my life, up to my very last day: …the survival of the species. It is a question of…whether mankind – the very universe of man – will disappear by its own hand, or whether it will continue to exist.”
--Albert Einstein, quoted in the transcript of 10/4/1949 hearing before the 14th Court of Corrections in Paris, as translated by Richard V. Carter in Survival Meetings, Writers Club Press, 2001The extraordinary true story of one man who took on all the nations of the world --... more
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Trash. Millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic, floats in the middle of the ocean. The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic and in some areas the amount of plastic outweighs the amount of plankton by a ratio of six to one.
How much more do we have to screw up our planet before we start to fix it? The "plastic soup" is divided into two parts, between California and Hawaii, which is twice the size of Texas, and between Hawaii and Japan, which is twice the size of America.Trash. Millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic, floats in the middle of the... more
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