Solutions to Climate Change

Solutions to Climate Change
This Thursday evening, I hope you will join me as I participate in a live dialogue with Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth Thompson, director of the Buckminster Fuller institute, on consciousness, social media, and potential solutions to the climate crisis. We will be celebrating the extraordinary work of Allan Savory, who won the BFI Challenge in 2010. If you are in NYC, you are welcome to come in person but you must RSVP in advance (RSVP at www.deepakhomebase.com <http://www.deepakhomebase.com> ). If you are unable to make it in person, the discussion will be streamed live, and you can watch it here: http://www.livestream.com/deepakhomebase .
Evolver/Reality Sandwich and Deepak Homebase are working together to develop cutting-edge ways for our communities to interact and connect. Please check in again, before the event, for an update on how you can participate in the dialogue while it is happening or in the days afterward, by uploading creative contributions for the whole network to explore. I am pleased that we will be able to present this dialogue, and future ones, in a way that allows the community to join us live and contribute their insights and visions.
I really hope you can join us for the launch of this unique, ongoing collaborative experiment, as we bring together the Evolver network, the design science community, and Deepak¹s global audience.
Kind regards,
Daniel
Thurs, June 23
6:30-8:30pm
ABC Carpet & Home on the mezzanine
888 Broadway at East 19th St.
rsvp: www.deepakhomebase.com
- 6-21-11
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Australian Deserts
You make good points about the patterns in livestock movement, and the importance of nomads know how of the environment, however I need to alert you to another angle on the story of enabling forest regrowth. In your talk with Deepak Chopra, you mention that the deserts in Australia began as long as 50 000 years ago, but it is also true, that Australia sustains human habitation in the driest climates. Only Antarctica is drier overall than our land. I know people from the Great Victoria desert, the largest and driest in Australia, where an ecosystem is stable and sustaining of human habitation, by its reliance upon spinifex, and termites eating the spinifex, (bigger insects and small lizards eating the termites, and larger lizards and snakes who eat those termite eaters). Also Australian Eucalypt trees are known as the only types of tree to have been successfully used to halt the expansion of the Sahara desert. Sure we may well have fallen first into the hole of what caused deserts, but also knew, long before European invasion attempted to silence us, what the cure is. My point is, that "no option but to use livestock" is not exactly accurate in our Australian context, and in the context of our indigenous flora. Indigenous land care values rate use of fire very highly, as a means of reinvigorating forest growth, and our many of our indigenous plants can only sprout after a fire. Perhaps the key you are in need of, is that how elements flow around a pentacle, is not always in the direction of fire consuming wood, but certain woods can be fed by fire, in the exact right conditions. The flow of the elements in the pentacle is such that any element can flow into any other, but this fact is seldom taught, since it is rare to find those who comprehend what all the relationships and balances are, which need to be kept in check, to manipulate any element in any direction. Clearly, those of us who comprehend this, are indeed committed lifelong to enabling reforestation of this planet. My own efforts are recently proving that use of drugs which are conducive to fire-of-the-mind, (eg opiates and alcohol), needs to be reduced in the whole picture of preventing global warming, because addiction to such substances was essentially inhibiting of fire doing anything other than eroding wood. In response to an eight year process, of renewing my own Dreamtime work, by placing myself among opiate addicts, (actually that was going on for another eight years at least previous, but eight years ago I acquainted myself with some indigenous medicine men who were then already very sick from opiate abuse forced on them in prisons), and finding the sources of their ills, as well as sourcing other ills caused by their addictions, (it was beneficial for a few medicine men to have become addicted since they have good skills at exposing disease, and could expose to me the full array of subconscious and conscious delusions which kept them in addiction), and then using homeopathic medicines to begin the process of more rapidly enabling opiate users to realise how they have been at the butt end of the worst that the economy was causing. Enabling people in active addiction to learn to want to cease using drugs, is not impossible, just as reforestation is not possible. The idea of use of fauna is an essential element in the big picture also, but I am insisting that the accurate uses of fire to promote flora growth, must be well considered also. Just as a marijuana smoker need not always be victim to a heroin injector, but can gain the upper hand among, so must forests not always be erased by fire. What I am implying here, is that so much of the global economy was blaming itself wrongfully upon the economy of illicit drug use, that the exact same problems have been present, and therefore the exact same solutions will prove warranted! More Earth element feeding fire element, (and water element feeding fire element) is required, and so, it is appropriate to be allowing and even enabling opiate abusers, to have the upper hand over cocaine abusers, (fire feeding from water, is how fire can feed wood), as well as enabling opiate addiction to find its way into recovery, by use of Earth element based drugs, (like mushrooms etc.). The solution is in preventing opiate users from blaming marijuana smoking, and tobacco (air) smoking, and feeding to the opiate abusers, an intellectual concoction combining the most drug free parts of the economy with the cocaine/coffee/tea/chocolate abusing parts of the economy! . . . . and then those parts of the economy which have been dependant upon blaming the delusions connected with addiction to opiates, will find their way into the greener economy. It is a simple idea, but one which has taken the better part of my life's work to prove it to those who are capable of doing something about the problem. A simple idea with a difficult and complicated way it proves itself, as the proofs need a mind astute to the psychology of opiate addiction, without being susceptible to that psychology. Further, it is also a dangerous idea to relate, as I am doing here, and this is why I seldom work my words into any more easy to read grammar for. Dangerous, because it is not what opiate users and abusers themselves get up to, that was the problem, so much as what was done with those dreams and nightmares gained, by blaming opiate addicts for not paying their bills in the economy. This is why addiction theory and the work of groups like AA and NA is essential. Proving that addicts have literally no control over their substance abuse, is the only way out of global warming, and to prove that, and enable addicts to get clean, it is also essential to prove that addicts were not causing that they became addicts in the first place, and rather it proves to be that the pressure of the global economy upon them, was far more causal to their addiction. My work is focussed in the prisons, among men who are very overtly forced into drug abuse, and who have the added fear of the excessive levels of blame for child abuse which goes on among those convicted. Their fears of their drug use having ever been harmful to children, have been unnecessarily intensified by prison experiences, but at the bottom line, it really can be proven, that the greatest fear of abuse of children which every man must bear with, has been that of imposing upon children the inheritance of a planet in crisis. Refocussing what was held to be at fault for what problems, needs to happen first, before people can vote in leaders who will lead us all into the environmental solutions which we all already know to exist.
when end be nigh
We'll let out the sigh
But that was for real
And the best of all deals
The end that began with each feel
Into death being over and real
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Its good to know that group