I am always worrying about our vulnerability as individuals living in a contaminated environment, or about the instability of our planetary ecosystem now that global heating is underway. But one thing I don’t usually worry about is whether my son will be shot and killed on his way to buy candy at the corner store. [...]
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Carbon Colonialism: Just Say No!
Do ordinary people need to commit suicide to gain the attention of the global elites? You may remember, back in 2003, a Korean farmer named Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide outside the grounds of the World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun, Mexico, as a protest against the impact of first world subsidies of grain production, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 30, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/carbon-colonialism-just-say-no/
Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were steadily gaining steam when I was born in the early 1960s; “progress” seemed infinite, and infinitely [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on July 19, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/paradigm-shift-from-competition-and-destruction-to-nurturance-collaboration/
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