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by Jan Lundberg, oil industry analyst and eco-activist
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08 May 2012 |
 Courtesy BP
The movie is soon getting its major national release in theaters and on Netflix. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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23 April 2012 |
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As the scientific consensus jells to advise us that economic growth on a finite planet is unsustainable, and anyone can see that maximizing consumption is increasingly disastrous, we must ask ourselves what we do next. The first thing would be to focus humanity on what biology-savvy people see as the basic problem: more and more people being born who consume much more than their ancestors did.
This concern is not in the corporate press or tossed around the typical local pub or bar. Why should population size be so uninteresting to the vast majority? |
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by Jan Lundberg
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13 April 2012 |
 The big money continues to talk. For environmental protection in extreme times, what have we got?
• A government much more intimate with BP, for example, than citizens want to know.
• Environmental groups promoting electric cars instead of advocating car-free living -- such as the Sierra Club, which accepted $26 million in donations from Chesapeake Energy, the natural gas fracker.
• News media usually adhere, as though they were corrupted, to the above kinds of influences. Real news can filter through, such as on climate change, but less frequently than a few years ago.
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by Jan Lundberg
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29 February 2012 |
On Feb. 25, 2012, a message came in from an irate website visitor whose name won't be used:
Subject: Off Shore Drilling and North Dakota Oil
Are you crazy? The United States of America needs to be independant and free from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran and Yemen oil. Opec's agenda for keeping gas prices at a rediculous cost to consumers will cause middle class Americans commuting to work to stop putting money into our economy. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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28 February 2012 |
 Modern society has adopted romantic love as an individualistic virtue, dating back to the European age of Chivalry and its literature. As chaos and insecurity mounted in the 20th century, "love" became for many the main desired goal. When asked, those left in "peace" would say "peace would be nice too." As peace retreated in the last 100 years, love seemed more popular.
What is love? It is a large concept, going beyond romantic love to love of family, friends, pets, music, anything -- including a philosophy of loving love. |
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by Bill LeBon
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18 February 2012 |
 Bill on rock, rock on Bill
Universal Mind Meditation
Feel the whole infinite Universe, see the galaxies. See our Milky Way Galaxy and our star the Sun. See the planets, then see Earth. Feel that love for our beautiful blue home planet. As the Universal, feel the desire to protect and nuture this special miracle. |
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