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HAVE YOU TAR-SANDED YOUR CAR TODAY?

Tar sands tailing pond, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Source: ForestEthics.

By Gundhramns Hammer
March 5, 2015
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Hey, have you tar-sanded your car today? 

If you live in Canada or the United States and own a vehicle or a float of them, chances are you have.

Learn how you have tar-sanded you car today. Watch the following clips (Videos 1-3).

Video 1. Tar sands oil extraction: The dirty truth.

Video 2. To the last drop: Canada´s dirty oil sands. Part 1/2.

Video 3. To the last drop: Canada´s dirty oil sands. Part 2/2.

 

More information on tar sands: HERE or HERE.

7 billion human apes without a solution

Mon Capitaine, one way or another we humans are all tar-sanded, for oil derived products pervade our lives everywhere in a globalised economy.

Mon ami, that´s a fact. 

What can we do, mon Capitaine?

That´s a tough question. 

However, it would help if people lowered or put on idle their overconsumption habits. But this would slow down the economy that depends on people consuming like maniacs. It a vicious circle.

If you live in an affluent society, reducing your squandering habits including jacking around in your car and not having children would certainly help. 

In today´s world, affluent families - who may be overconsumption psychos (Video 4) - raise children that usually behave like black holes. 

 Video 4. Psycho dad shreds video games.

These spoiled brats are the ultimate stuff chewing and wasteful biomachines (Video 5) in "developed" or "developing" nations. 

 Video 5. A spoiled brat throws a temper tantrum and destroys a family Christmas tree.

Besides, kids are the next generation of slaves that will serve directly or indirectly the elite chupacabras, a gang of satanists, according to some experts. 

So far, we are already nearly 7 billion human apes without a solution, causing havoc on Earth (Video 5). 

 Video 5. Overfishing: The consequences.

The idea that yours - your child - may bring the solution to this world is stretching what you have been told to stretch to keep you economically overstretched.

Faced with this dilemma, everyone is talking about the solution but almost no one wants to be part of the solution.

And the sad part of this issue is that there are way too many experts that are chupacabring this fat cow without finding a solution under the given or proposed solutions by the same folks who are not part of the solution, even though they talk a lot of shit about the solutions and get overpaid to find a solution. 

By doing so, they get farther and farther from the solution even though they tell their bosses and the public that they have almost reached a solution or that they will have a solution in the next five or ten years. 

They search over and over for a technological solution without finding a solution, hoping that one day they will find the solution. 

In the meantime, they get paid to hunt for the solution, thereby themselves becoming chupacabras in this rodeo without solution under the perspective of their hypothetical solutions to bring a solution to this problem that is making them mad without a solution.

If they ever do, by the time the experts find a possible solution, it will turn out that they will need another bunch of solutions.

Back to square one without a solution.

It is a never ending quest for solutions to a question that given the circumstances is more on the side of a new paradigm solution than going on a fancy wild goose chase for high tech solutions that sooner or later will require more high tech solutions.

The whole damn thing - our chupacabra system - needs right now a total overhaul including our own personal overhauls in our squandering lives, mon ami.

We all need take into account a philosophical personal solution: Consume less. Consume only what you need. And stick to it.

As simple as that, mon ami. 

Let us go now, mon ami. Let us eat and rejoice on our beans meal. Soon we will grow our own, when the Spring gets here. Let us be thankful we have such miraculous foods.

Are these transgenic, mon capitaine?

Maybe. They may very well be as part of a high tech lucrative solution that could turn into nightmare without a solution.

Anyway, our simple meal will not be the solution but could be a way to the solution if we all took a turn to a simpler solution: Your own solution on the solution.

And you can begin with your own spoon at the table.

Are you working on it?  

Are we?

You bet!


References

Nikiforuk A. (2010). Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. Revised and Updated. Greystone Books, Vancouver, Canada. 268 p.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A LOAF OF BREAD IS SACRED

Source: Mail Online.

By Gundhramns Hammer
February 4, 2014

A loaf of bread will make a poor family immensely happy. Whereas the same loaf of bread will not budge a single hair on the head of anyone who is wallowing in the mud of abundance and overconsumption.

No matter how we look at it, a loaf of bread is indeed sacred.

PENSAMIENTO PARA HOY: UNA BARRA DE PAN ES SAGRADA

Una barra de pan hará a una familia pobre inmensamente feliz. Mientras que la misma barra de pan no sacudirá un solo pelo en la cabeza de cualquier persona que se revuelca en el fango de la abundancia y el consumo excesivo.

No importa cómo se mire, una barra de pan es verdaderamente sagrada.

OUR CIVILIZATION MAY COLLAPSE SOONER THAN WE EXPECT

Source: theguardian , Monday 20 February 2012

By John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 February 2012 14.45 GMT

Smoke billows from burned trees. A collective of scientists and development thinkers have warned that civilisation faces an 'unprecedented emergency'. Photograph: CRISTINA QUICKLER/AFP/Getty Images

Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally malign technologies.

In the face of an "absolutely unprecedented emergency", say the 18 past winners of the Blue Planet prize – the unofficial Nobel for the environment – society has "no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilisation. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us".

The stark assessment of the current global outlook by the group, who include Sir Bob Watson, the government's chief scientific adviser on environmental issues, US climate scientist James Hansen, Prof José Goldemberg, Brazil's secretary of environment during the Rio Earth summit in 1992, and Stanford University Prof Paul Ehrlich, is published today on the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the UN environment programme (Unep). The paper, which was commissioned by Unep, will feed into the Rio +20 earth summit conference in June.

Apart from dire warnings about biodiversity loss and climate change, the group challenges governments to think differently about economic "progress".

"The rapidly deteriorating biophysical situation is more than bad enough, but it is barely recognised by a global society infected by the irrational belief that physical economies can grow forever and disregarding the facts that the rich in developed and developing countries get richer and the poor are left behind.

"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", they say.

The group warns against over-reliance on markets but instead urges politicians to listen and learn from how poor communities all over the world see the problems of energy, water, food and livelihoods as interdependent and integrated as part of a living ecosystem.

"The long-term answer is not a centralised system but a demystified and decentralised system where the management, control and ownership of the technology lie in the hands of the communities themselves and not dependent on paper-qualified professionals from outside the villages," they say.

"Community-based groups in the poorer most inaccessible rural areas around the world have demonstrated the power of grassroot action to change policy at regional and national levels... There is an urgency now to bring them into mainstream thinking, convey the belief all is not lost, and the planet can still be saved."

The answer to addressing the critical issues of poverty and climate change is not primarily technical but social, say the group. "The problems of corruption, wastage of funds, poor technology choices and absent transparency or accountability are social problems for which they are innovative solutions are emerging from the grassroots."

To transition to a more sustainable future will require simultaneously redesigning the economic system, a technological revolution, and, above all, behavioural change.

"Delay is dangerous and would be a profound mistake. The ratchet effect and technological lock-in increase the risks of dangerous climate change: delay could make stabilisation of concentrations at acceptable levels very difficult. If we act strongly and science is wrong, then we will still have new technologies, greater efficiency and more forests. If fail to act and the science is right, then humanity is in deep trouble and it will be very difficult to extricate ourselves.

The paper urges governments to:

• Replace GDP as a measure of wealth with metrics for natural, built, human and social capital – and how they intersect.

• Eliminate subsidies in sectors such as energy, transport and agriculture that create environmental and social costs, which currently go unpaid.

• Tackle overconsumption in the rich world, and address population pressure by empowering women, improving education and making contraception accessible to all.

• Transform decision-making processes to empower marginalised groups, and integrate economic, social and environmental policies instead of having them compete.

• Conserve and value biodiversity and ecosystem services, and create markets for them that can form the basis of green economies.

• Invest in knowledge through research and training.

"The current system is broken," said Watson. "It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5C warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminating the ecology that we depend on for our health, wealth and senses of self."