Data shows global growth now past tipping point. Global collapse occurring. Whole systems change imperative.

Economic research published by the University of Melbourne analysed the predictions made in the ground breaking 1972 book Limits to Growth, and notes that the actual trajectory followed in the four decades since has followed the worst case scenario. The 1970s computer model has proved remarkably accurate in predicting developments in the world economy, population …
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Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States

Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States by N.L. Swanson, 4/24/2013 Read this pdf: GMO-health Extracts: Peddlers of both chemicals and genetically engineered seeds claim that GMO food is “identical to non-GMO products.” They claim that genetic engineering is no different than plant hybridization, which has been practiced for centuries. …
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Big pharma being paid to poison our planet. New GMO and agent-orange/glyphosate mix to hit earth in 2015.

The US EPA is set to approve new GM seeds and toxic sprays made by Dow Chemical in the face of scientific opposition. There are millions of dollars on the table.  Dow will take market share and expand the use of mono-culture and toxic sprays.  These initiatives are inherently unsustainable, but in the short term …
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Your money and your life. What kind of deal is that?

EDF wants to extend the life of a 40 year old nuclear reactor which has cracks in it. So, what do you think that’s about?  Money. EDF can patch the reactor to get another decade out of it and all the revenue that comes with it.  That is small marginal investment for large incremental cash …
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In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife

And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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Standing up to bullies … works?

A senior legal investigator was fired by the FED for standing up to Goldman Sachs and her bosses at the FED.  She got fired for doing her job. What happened?  She highlighted the corruption in the FED and Goldman Sachs which was protecting bosses and their cash at the expense of Goldman Sachs clients and …
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Is Amazon destruction your fault?

Sadly, the truth is that we are all to blame.  We demand the paper or burgers or whatever it is for which the tropical woods are consumed. Ok, so you want to deny it or ignore it.  That’s OK.  Today.  But tomorrow we’re all going to have to face the truth.  Sooner or later we’ll …
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We’re 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.

“Low Carbon Economy Index,” a report released by the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, has numerous stark warnings.  Sadly they are unlikely to be heeded by those that matter – big companies, governments and people like you and me – because those are the culprits identified in the report. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, “the gap between …
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10% of girls under 20 are raped. Is this civilisation?

About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.  The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – were murdered in 2012 …
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Regulation doesn’t work, but what else is there when people don’t care?

A report by the watchdog Natural England says many farmers responded  to impeding grassland protection laws by digging up their meadows before the tighter rules could be introduced.  Some 98% of English meadows have already been lost to intensive farming and the rate of loss nearly doubled after announcement that rules would be changed. Rules …
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