“There is a broad scientific consensus that to keep global warming in check, we need to phase out 80 percent of all oil, coal and natural gas by mid-century. President Obama has set a nonbinding target to do precisely that.” http://www.npr.org/2013/11/30/247519058/tech-leaders-economists-split-over-clean-energys-prospects http://www.npr.org/2013/11/30/247519058/tech-leaders-economists-split-over-clean-energys-prospects
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Fighting materialism through transcending meditation is the sustainable happiness residing between the wont of too little and too much. Sat, Chit, Ananda. Rishi, Devata, Chandas. A consciousness-based life, it is, my friends, the only sustainable happiness we can pursue. Versus the excesses on earth of our heedlessness and material-isms. Make use of our time on planet earth, have a wonder-filled Thanksgiving in meditation today, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Purposeful Simplicity. Living Lightly on the Earth, a rhetorical call to meditation: Professor David Shi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DE9qBNMaFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DE9qBNMaFY ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on of [frivolous and ostentatious] apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God [the Unified Field] of great price. Pet. 3:3-4. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Yes, all of this will have to change in a brave new world of climate change coming. We will all need to sacrifice. Look, we need not just some incremental change in some efficiency but it is time for revolutionary lifestyle change based on large thinking and science. I feel we should immediately and institute quiet-time meditations in all schools everywhere. Start with the children as students. Then also in all public workplaces. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote: I have a better idea: start by becoming a vegetarian if what Richard says is to be believed (and I believe it). If one is going to meditate perhaps we should do so in a house that does not require heat or air conditioning. That would mean moving to a more temperate climate. Do you eat meat Buck? Do you drive a car or tractor? Do you heat your home? Do you consume anything not made within 5 miles of where you live? Do you ever travel to faraway places to see "saints"? I'd like to be able to say your simplistic and elegant "solution" of meditating for two hours a day was going to solve all this but, alas, I fear you may have missed the proverbial mark. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Well, as a substantial resolution we should all be investing in energy efficient sustainable group meditation meeting homes for quiet-time meditations where people live, go to school, or work. Pay people to do a full two hour meditation program twice a day during the workday. We could achieve upwards of 50 percent reduction in emission of climate change greenhouse gases. Somehow we have to get back to much simpler standards of living for the benefit of all living beings. We need to attack rampant materialism somewhere. It should start with instituting quiet-time meditation for everyone. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: Maybe you forgot to mention all the animal flatulence out back in your barn? "Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain." http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/ http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow-emissions-more-damaging-to-planet-than-co2-from-cars-427843.html On 11/21/2013 8:51 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: Is that giant dome you attend every day heated or does it have air conditioning or fans? Is your giant tractor fuelled by pig piss? Just askin'... ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck.> mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Yep, no question it is hotter and drier in Fairfield. Folks will certainly repent the glutton of their fossil-fueled air-conditioned days whence we get drought years back to back and a real drought sets in for 60 or 90 days across the mid-crop growing stage from seedling to pollination. You'll all repent then you sinners and become believers in the obvious that carbon dioxide is the element that regulates our atmospheric climate. About the only thing you'll be able to do with famine then is meditate your last skinny breath on earth. Git real. It is all about lifestyle, materialism and the lack of people spending enough time in meditation everyday. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Dare Rick watch it? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: Thanks. The trailer was actually pretty lame but looking at the Wiki entry for the movie it sounds a film I'd want to seek out. . ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Agreed...you might like this movie "Pandora's Promise", it really brings environmentalism up to date. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDw3ET3zqxk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDw3ET3zqxk ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: I've got an open mind. But I see that Al Gore's house (maybe he has more than one) is powered with a geothermal system as well as 33-solar panels. If energy prices rise he's sitting pretty. (And he's filthy rich anyway.) What about those at the bottom of the social pile? Green taxes could mean many of the elderly poor dying of hypothermia. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Watch, if you have an open mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDI2NVTYRXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDI2NVTYRXU
