Source: Berto Jongman: Resource Futures
Graphic: Global Resource Dependencies
Commercial Intelligence, Earth IntelligenceBerto Jongman: Resource Futures
Earth Intelligence
Below are the home page for multiple live graphics, followed by the printable Executive Summary and the printable Full Report.
Phi Beta Iota: The report appears to ignore the pervasive and deep financial manipulation of the resource market place, as well as the pervasive and deep corruption characteristic of all governmewnts including Western governments.
Berto Jongman: Interview with Dennis Meadows on Limits to Growth Today
Earth Intelligence‘Limits to Growth' Author Dennis Meadows ‘Humanity Is Still on the Way to Destroying Itself'
In 1972, environmental guru Dennis Meadows predicted in his seminal study “The Limits to Growth” that the world was heading toward an economic collapse. Forty years on, he tells SPIEGEL ONLINE that nothing he has seen since has made him change his mind.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Professor Meadows, 40 years ago you published “The Limits to Growth” together with your wife and colleagues, a book that made you the intellectual father of the environmental movement. The core message of the book remains valid today: Humanity is ruthlessly exploiting global resources and is on the way to destroying itself. Do you believe that the ultimate collapse of our economic system can still be avoided?
Meadows: The problem that faces our societies is that we have developed industries and policies that were appropriate at a certain moment, but now start to reduce human welfare, like for example the oil and car industry. Their political and financial power is so great and they can prevent change. It is my expectation that they will succeed. This means that we are going to evolve through crisis, not through proactive change.
Dolphin: Autism Up, Sperm Down
07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy
Connecting the dots….isn't that what intelligence is supposed to do?
Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story
An investigation into the relationship between environmental poisons and human health is riveting — and terrifying.
If horror is your genre, environmental writer Brita Belli’s The Autism Puzzle, is the book for you. Her terrifying look at the chemicals we eat, drink and breathe is guaranteed to make your hair stand on end.
We should thank her for it.
Statistics released earlier this spring by the Centers for Disease Control revealed that one in 88 U.S. born toddlers has an autism spectral disorder—from the less severe Asperger’s Syndrome to the so-called classical form of the ailment. Worse, it’s not just a North American phenomenon; Belli also reports a 57 percent spike in Asia and Europe.
SchwartzReport: Local and Regional Restructuring of the American Continent
07 Venezuela, 08 Wild Cards, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Here is an excellent analysis of an important aspect of the Great Schism Trend: the move to localism, and regionalism.
This “Chapter Fourteen” is part eighteen of Truthout's continuing series of excerpts from Gar Alperovitz's “America beyond Capitalism.”
The Regional Restructuring of the American Continent
By Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press | Serialized Book
truthout.org, Thursday, 06 December 2012 10:44
Americans committed to a renewal of democracy are likely to discover this can only be meaningfully achieved in units of scale smaller than a continent, but also of sufficient size to be capable of substantial semiautonomous functioning: the region.
The Pluralist Commonwealth model attempts to deal seriously with long-standing arguments that the sheer continental size of the United States and its very large population are ultimately inimical to a robust system-wide vision of democratic practice. Community-oriented strategies appear to be within the range of realistic political possibility in coming years. What of the larger and seemingly utopian idea that much more far-reaching – indeed, radical – decentralization is both necessary and possible?
Five major considerations suggest that, contrary to conventional assumption, the logic of regional restructuring is likely to become of increasing importance as the twenty-first century develops. These include trends in Supreme Court and congressional decision making; an explosion of state-based initiatives; the impact of global political-economic forces on the current federal system; very large-order projected changes in the economy and population; and new trajectories of expanding ethnic political power concentrated in key regions experiencing economic distress.
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Local and Regional Restructuring of the American Continent”
Intelligence ONLINE (Paris): Chinese-French P4 Bio Containment Laboratory
02 China, 07 Health, Earth Intelligence
From the latest issue [No. 677 28 Nov 2012] of Intelligence ONLINE (Paris), the one essential overview in English that we know of. Visit them online.
Lynn Wheeler: Fukushima Lies Continue
03 Economy, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Government and Industry Still Denying Science at Fukushima
John LaForge
CounterPunch, 5 December 2012
EXTRACT
Disinformation and denials confounded by science
Official lullabies, denials and attempted cover-ups are desperate shields against the enormous economic and legal liability that would follow any acknowledgment of the depth and breadth of radiation’s likely effects. Tepco said Nov. 6 that it may need 11 trillion yen, or $137 billion, to cover its damages. Tokyo already set aside ¥9 trillion in July as part of the federal bailout and takeover of the utility. Minister Edano hinted last May that the government may cover some of the costs of decontaminating certain limited areas. Comprehensive decontamination is not even being considered because, as the science ministry reported in Nov. 2011, radioactive fallout from the triple meltdowns was found in every one of its 57 prefectures.#
The journal Science reported this fall that 40% of the fish caught off the coast of NE Japan are contaminated with radioactive cesium at levels well above what the government allows.** Author Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution concluded that there is either a source of cesium on the seafloor, or it is still being dumped into the ocean by Tepco.
