Posts Tagged ‘Society’

A reflection on climate change

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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Today is the annual blog action day and this years topic is climate change. I’ve decided to participate in this action because climate change has become such a major issue and I think this is a good reminder to pause for a moment and reflect on what it means to us. As with any major issue there are many aspects to it, many views and in this case a good deal of fear because the estimates regarding the potential outcomes continue to become more grim. So I’m inviting you to reflect on climate change and what it brings up for you, what it means to you and how it impacts your life and your vision of the future.
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From Fear to Empowered Engagement

Monday, October 5th, 2009

EmpTree

What does the current world situation bring up for you? This question produces a variety of responses depending on who you ask. There are seriously alarming things playing out right now many of which are major global events such as climate change. Beyond that we seem to be creating increasingly oppressive governments even in our so called free western societies. Our society at least to me appears to be suffering from a degenerative sickness which is entering a terminal stage. The degradation of our society is evidenced by many symptoms including increasing extremism, a poisoning of the food supply due to genetic and toxic contamination, a health care system that is based on profit instead of healing and sells poison under the guise of medicine, an almost complete lack of honesty and morality in government, a numbed out population that spends its time entranced by mass media promoting extremely dysfunctional behavior and propaganda and an economy where both greed and manufactured scarcity run rampant.
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