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Climate Change Tipping Points and the Question of Civilizational Survival

Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science—and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible damage in a fashion and at a speed that had not been anticipated.

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2015/10/062015/10/05

Yoda: Sustainable Development Cost Estimates

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Threats, United Nations & NGOs

Useful onventional wisdom.

Cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

$1.3 trillion a year or 11% of GDP in international dollars. This assumes conventional financing and conventional technologies and conventional processes.

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2015/09/302015/09/29

Chuck Spinney: Saudi Arabian Collapse — Bad Rulers, No Water? A Case Study…

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 12 Water, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government

I want to flag and discuss two articles. The first, Saudi Royal calls for regime change in Riyadh, is a report in the Guardian by Hugh Miles. He describes the four immediate factors that have stimulated the now famous letters by the anonymous 3rd generation prince calling for the replacement of King Salman and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: (1) the double tragedy at Mecca that killed 800 people, (2) the collapse of oil prices, (3) the war in Yemen which, according to Miles, few Saudis support, and (4) King Salman's elevation of his young son, the inexperienced and impetuous Mohammed bin Salman to the peculiar but powerful post of Deputy Crown Prince, making him second in the line of succession.

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2015/09/292015/09/28

Yoda: Science – and Theology — Evolve Together [It Helps If Both Are Moral]

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Think, we should — with faith.

Major Shifts in Science Challenge Religions, and Especially Their Activists

“Pope Francis’ May 24, 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, on the state of the earth’s environment and humanity’s responsibility for action, represents a growing transformational shift in the relationship between science, social justice, progressive secularism, and religious consciousness.

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2015/09/242015/09/23

Berto Jongman: A Positive Future If We Spent on Peace Instead of War

Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

9 Things We Can Accomplish If We Re-Directed our Resources from War

Here are 9 Things That Could Positively Affect the World if we Re-Directed our Resources from the War Machine:

List and links below the fold — an eye-opener.

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2015/09/232015/09/22

Sepp Hasslberger: Electric Plasma Universe

Earth Intelligence, Extraterrestial Intelligence

On the way to acceptance – an electromagnetic, rather than relativistic, view of the universe.

Electric Plasma Universe Arrives

Plasmas are the ultimate stardust from which the visible universe of stars and planets (and their living inhabitants), galaxies and supergalaxies (clusters, walls, and networks of galaxies) are created. The creation of stars and galaxies are often highly energetic, sometimes explosive events associated with massive electrical discharges, releasing the energy stored in stellar, galactic, and supergalactic electric plasma circuits. Hence plasmas are also the main engine of creation in the Plasma Universe.

2015/09/232015/09/23

Eagle: Monsanto is Carcinogenic….

Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto’s Roundup ‘Carcinogenic’

The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup — as a chemical “known to cause cancer.” The World Health Organization’s research arm also recently found that the chemical is probably carcinogenic to humans, and research has also linked glyphosate to the steep decline of monarch butterflies. And as we reported this week, scientists have increasingly raised new alarms about potential negative health impacts tied to Roundup, including a recent study suggesting that long-term exposure to tiny amounts of the chemical (thousands of times lower than what is allowed in drinking water in the US) could lead to liver and kidney problems.

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