ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART VI Chapter 3: Health, Nutrition, and Population (Cont.) POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING: CARE MAKES PROGRESS IN ETHIOPIA There are more than ten times as many people living on the Earth as there were 300 years ago. But one …
INDEX TO POSTINGS IN DECEMER 2011 Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins Part 2 December 1 Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World by Ervin Laszlo Part 4 December 2 The Earth is But One Country by …
THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART I Front flyleaf The ancient dream of a just society has inspired countless men and women down the ages. Sometimes emerging in the spontaneous rebellion of ordinary people against tyranny, sometimes led by far-sighted statesmen or philosophers, sometimes manifested in a new religion …
QUANTUM SHIFT IN THE GLOBAL BRAIN HOW THE NEW SCIENTIFIC REALITY CAN CHANGE US AND OUR WORLD ERVIN LASZLO INNER TRADITIONS 2008 www.InnerTraditions.com PART IX Chapter 6: A Planetary Ethic We have arrived at a historic bifurcation, at the critical phase of the global Macroshift. While we now find ourselves on a descending path …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART VII Chapter 7: The Food versus Poison Trade-off? Question: You may be right that the numbers of people are not the real threat to the adequacy of food resources – that the real issues are …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART IX CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Seven: Biotechnology will solve the problems of industrial agriculture THE TRUTH New biotech crops will not solve …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART V PART II ESCAPING THE POVERTY TRAP: HOW THE POOR ARE GAINING THE KEYS TO CAPABILITY Even in the poorest regions of the world, far from the major growth engines of the global economy, and in the face …
THE EARTH IS BUT ONE COUNTRY JOHN HUDDLESTON The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom 1976/1988 PART X Chapter 7: A World Civilization A – The Most Great Peace The Bahá’í community is distinguished from all other groups, social, political, and religious, in that it is totally dedicated to the …
QUANTUM SHIFT IN THE GLOBAL BRAIN HOW THE NEW SCIENTIFIC REALITY CAN CHANGE US AND OUR WORLD ERVIN LASZLO INNER TRADITIONS 2008 www.InnerTraditions.com PART VIII Chapter 5: A New Vision (Cont.) Six particularly dangerous myths Nature is inexhaustible. The origins of the myth that nature is an infinite source of resources and an infinite …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART VI Chapter 6: People Pressure on the Ecosystem? Question: You have talked about the population problem in terms of the economic system. But what about the impact of increasing numbers of people on the ecosystem? The …
