Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Fwd: CC News Letter, 21 Feb - 'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World To Meltdown



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Subject: CC News Letter, 21 Feb - 'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World To Meltdown
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'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World To Meltdown
 By Common Dreams Staff

http://www.countercurrents.org/cds210212.htm

The perpetual growth myth ... promotes the impossible idea that indiscriminate economic growth is the cure for all the world's problems, while it is actually the disease that is at the root cause of our unsustainable global practices


As Arctic Sea Ice Declines, Polar Bear Patrol Gets Busy
 By Ed Struzik

http://www.countercurrents.org/struzik210212.htm

Polar bears have long come ashore in Churchill, Manitoba, the self-styled 'Polar Bear Capital of the World.' But as summer sea ice steadily disappears in Hudson Bay, bears are being marooned on land for longer periods of time — and that is generating a lot of work for the Polar Bear Alert Team


Why Do Political And Economic Leaders Deny Peak Oil And Climate Change?
 By Alice Friedemann

http://www.countercurrents.org/friedemann210212.htm

Since there's nothing that can be done about climate change, because there's no scalable alternative to fossil fuels, I've always wondered why politicians and other leaders, who clearly know better, feel compelled to deny it. I think it's for exactly the same reasons you don't hear them talking about preparing for Peak Oil


Climate And The Psyche
 By Ro Randall & Alex Doherty

http://www.countercurrents.org/doherty210212.htm

It might be best to hope, not to be happy, but to hope to develop the strength to face what the future brings and to anticipate finding in that future times of love, joy, generosity and exuberance, as well as times of struggle and hardship


Toward Purpose And Meaning In A Too-Late World
 By Douglas Carhart

http://www.countercurrents.org/carhart210212.htm

There can be no rebirth without the requisite death that precedes it, so a "Great Turning", yes, but A Great Death, also. This is all the more reason why we need each other during this changing of worlds. As in all healthy ecosystems, the wider a person's web of supportive interrelationships, the greater their chance of survival


Fidel And 540 minutes :Fight, Don't Let Pessimism Win, It's Our Duty
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury210212.htm

"We have to fight. We can't let pessimism win. It's our duty", said Fidel Castro during a discussion with intellectuals in Havana


The Ooooby Local Economic Model
 By Pete Russell

http://www.countercurrents.org/russell210212.htm

Ooooby began in December 2008 on Waiheke Island, Auckland, as an online social network of food gardeners. An evolving project, it now also facilitates the distribution of locally grown food. Ooooby has (in May 2011) 3,600 members, 10,000 monthly visitors, 50 local suppliers and 150 weekly customers. Each month an Oooobyversity evening is hosted in Grey Lynn, Auckland, to share knowledge about food-growing and ways to enhance local production


IAEA Inspection Team Intensifies Pressure On Iran
 By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds210212.htm

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrived in Iran yesterday for a critical two-day visit. If Iran fails to satisfy the inspectors over its nuclear programs, the way is open for a negative IAEA report, due later this month, and escalating sanctions and military threats by the US and its allies


The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
 By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson210212.htm

War is good for the U.S. economy, and the Iranian economy too. Troops stationed in Iran would buy stuff. And women who survived the war would have more rights. Like in Virginia. We owe Iranians this after that little mishap in 1953


Syrian Resolution: Shows World's Nations With A Backbone
 By Sean Fenley

http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley210212.htm

Not much reported in the MSM was that Bolivia, Belarus, Ecuador, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, the DPRK, and Cuba, joined with Russia and China in voting against the Saudi penned UN General Assembly resolution


Mad, Passionate Love -- And Violence
 By Rebecca Solnit

http://www.countercurrents.org/solnit210212.htm

For the Occupy movement, the honeymoon is over. What happens now depends on vigorous participation, including yours, in thinking aloud together about who we are, what we want, and how we get there, and then acting upon it. Go occupy the possibilities and don't stop pedaling. And remember, it started with mad, passionate love


Why PM Julia Gillard Must Go: 66,000 Preventable Australian Deaths Annually
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210212.htm

Catalogued here are documented details of 66,000 preventable Australian deaths occurring each year under the Gillard Labor Government in Australia , one of the World's richest countries.. It follows that PM Julia Gillard has failed and should be urgently replaced as PM of Australia


The Blochistan Imbroglio And Balkanization Of Pakistan
 By Javed I. Chaudry

http://www.countercurrents.org/chaudry210212.htm

The recently held US congressional committee hearing on Balochistan should leave no doubt for speculation that severing Balochistan from Pakistan would be a desirable step for the US imperial design in support of The Great Game


Online Campaign For Zojila Tunnel
 By Javed Naqi

http://www.countercurrents.org/naqi210212.htm

Zojila Watch, a youth group formed to struggle for greater accessibility to Ladakh region, started the petition on Change.org, and in just 10 days received hundreds of concerned individuals to support the campaign. Members of Zojila Watch team, Javed Naqi and Shahnawaz met the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Dr. C. P. Joshi, at his residence and presented a copy of the petition


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