FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1I PART II: THE SCARCITY SCARE Chapter 1: Standing Room Only? Too Many People? Question: We now have less than one acre of cultivated land per person in the world and that will be cut …
INDEX TO POSTINGS IN NOVEMER 2011 Ethics For the New Millennium by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Part 7 November 1 A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting Part 15 November 2 Where I Lived, and What I lived For by Henry David …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART IV CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Two: Industrial Food Is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious THE TRUTH Industrial agriculture contaminates our vegetables and fruits with pesticides, …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART V Chapter 4: Accommodation In the rich country a large proportion of the people have come to expect a comfortable and also an increasing income. This is a circumstance to which they have accommodated their thoughts and expectations. An effort, general …
THE EARTH IS BUT ONE COUNTRY JOHN HUDDLESTON The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom 1976/1988 PART V Chapter 3: A New Race of Men A – Independent Investigation of the truth Bahá’í teachings for a new civilization begin with the individual. Each individual who partakes in the building of …
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 III PART ONE MACROSHIFT IN SOCIETY Chapter 2: Macroshift: The Dynamics We live in a crucial epoch – an epoch of instability and change. The future is open. We could go …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1 Front flyleaf v The cause of hunger is NOT too many people. v The cause of hunger is NOT scarcity of arable land. v The cause of hunger is NOT overconsumption by greedy Americans. …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART III PART TWO CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART IV Chapter 3: The Equilibrium of Poverty The accepted diagnosis of mass poverty – insufficient capital, backward technology – went beyond its strategic convenience. It had also the blessing of the most reputable economic thought. What was recommended for the poor …
SENECA ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE LIFE IS LONG IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT IDEAS TRANSLATED BY C.D.N. COSTA 1997 PART II Seneca: c. 5 BC –AD 65 Chapter 1: On the Shortness of Life (Cont.) Life is divided into three periods, past present and future. Of …
