Or we are just freakin lazy with the exception of sounding off on internet lists.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:57 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Scarey "How long before they are treating humans in the same manner?" I thought they already were, considering the lack of compassion, the numbers each of us have for ID and the complete lack of respect if one is not wealthy, have shingles over their doors or, what? just like to kill things??? I start to believe this "displacement" some people show to all that is around them must come from the aliens who landed here 20,000 years ago or so. They are either completely insane or come from a totally different race of beings. D. On 15/08/2012 8:35 AM, Ray Harrell wrote: People make fun of thinking like this but ask the English what happened to their hedgerows and the wildlife as a result of mega farming with the advent of the European market. Cherokees call each of these life forms, "nations," while the mechanical, economic world calls them species. How long before they are treating humans in the same manner? One should remember that the nameless white masks also cover hearts that have lost and now rage in the wild (as William Blake put it so long ago). It happened here in Blake's day and today, the people who came here are experiencing both the repressed rage (guilt) for their empire and the fear of reprisal as their Empire comes home to roost and the "English" are not "white" but people of color. Disrespect is disrespect whether animal or plant. It begins in small things and ends in human waves. Each nation is a system. The one that is most holistic and organic is the one that is native to this world and has evolved through millions of years of success. The banking system is no more than a pimple on the buttocks of the world. We return to Freud's perception about poor toilet training as the beginning of the problem. The race from nature and the revenge of the Tiger. REH _____ August 14, 2012 Mountain Mint Broke My Heart By MARIELLE ANZELONE YOU cant help whom you fall for. Sometimes you cant help what you fall for, either. It was a wildflower that did it for me. With its scruffy demeanor and inconspicuously small blossoms, Torreys mountain mint is not much to look at. Yet seeing it is rare. This species is globally imperiled, known to exist in fewer than 20 locations in the entire world all in the central and eastern United States, and all dwindling. One is on Staten Island in New York City. In 2003 a relatively small cluster of Torreys mountain mint was found along a forested roadside in a sleepy part of southern Staten Island. Local naturalists cheered this discovery of a wildflower that had not been recorded in the five boroughs since 1897. The news was less welcome to the city agency and developer that planned to raze the woodland habitat and build a strip mall in its place. Located near the street, the plant itself would survive the bulldozer, but it would be isolated as its surroundings changed from pastoral to paved. I was in the middle of the <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/nyregion/neighborhood-report-charleston-f or-proposed-development-tiny-but-formidable-foe.html> ensuing melee. At the time, I was the plant ecologist for the citys Department of Parks and Recreation. I spent the spring and summer of 2004 immersing myself in the disputed 42-acre forest, which also turned out to be home to an additional 13 plant species that were rare in New York State. Glacially deposited sandy soils supported rose pink and sweet everlasting. A copse of trembling aspens overlooked gray birch and bracken fern. Prickly needles of shrubby pines intermingled with all manner of oaks. I was in botanical heaven. But I was also in contentious political waters. The borough president didnt help matters by offering his own solution: I need a plant in my office. Put it in a jar and bring it to me, and I will water it every day. When found in other places, Torreys mountain mint is not an inconvenience but an inspiration for conservation efforts. In New York State, near the Connecticut border, one population of mountain mint lives in a 144-acre grassland, preserved in perpetuity. Our mountain mint was given no such considerations. Local conservation groups sued New York City to stop the destruction, citing an incomplete environmental review. The court did not dispute that the ecological assessment was lacking, but development was allowed to proceed because the brief statute of limitations had run out. As construction approached, I said goodbye to what would be lost: sweeps of meadow beauty, partridge pea and blue-eyed grass. Spicebush swallowtails and other winged wildlife could flee to neighboring woodlands, at least. But what of the ants? I imagined them buried beneath the macadam, entombed in their underground chambers like an insect Pompeii. A little over a year later, I made a trip, required by my job, to the new shopping complex. With a heavy heart I dutifully cut back encroaching vines and gathered garbage from the sad, fenced-in strip that now enclosed the mountain mint. Looking over the empty parking lot, I imagined I could still see the old American chestnut tree that once bore fruit. Over there was the shallow pool brimming with sedges and sphagnum mosses. Just beyond was the thicket of sassafras and lowbush blueberry shrubs. These visions soon faded, leaving me standing among the big-box stores. Environmentalists come to cities and see only loss and degradation. Developers come to cities and see construction opportunities. In Torreys mountain mint, I saw hope. In the face of impossible odds, this plant graced New Yorkers with its presence. It challenged us to redefine what a city could be. In the face of that gift, we let a poorly planned development displace a landscape replete with biological riches. Today, surrounded by strip malls and cheaply built housing, that once quiet Staten Island road is bustling with traffic. In this environment, Torreys mountain mints days in New York City are surely numbered. For now, the wildflower is blooming. At least, that is what colleagues tell me. I cannot bear to revisit the site. At some point, every conservation biologist is bound to have her heart broken. This is how it happened to me. <http://marielleanzelone.squarespace.com/> Mariellé Anzelone, an urban conservation biologist, is the executive director of <http://nycwildflowerweek.org/> NYC Wildflower Week. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:52 AM To: Keith Hudson; RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Scarey And how the banksters play. D. On 14/08/2012 10:34 PM, Keith Hudson wrote: It certainly is scarey. From west to east across northern and middle Europe neo-nazi groups are growing in all countries, their nastiness in almost direct proportion to how left-wing (and thus how open to illegal immigration) their governments have been in the last 30/40 years or so (think Norway and Breivik). The only two exceptions are at the extremities -- Russia and Northern Ireland. In both Moscow and Belfast you will walk all day without seeing a single black face, whether Indian, Middle-Eastern or African. In Russia, its extreme neo-nazi party is thus not aimed at the non-existent immigrants but at its own government (though for the same underlying reason -- insufficient jobs for the young). In Northern Ireland there is no neo-nazi party because it has two nasty parties already which hate each other. The one, the Protestant Orange Order, essentially dates back a century to Lloyd George's stupid decision to divide the island of Ireland into two parts. The other, the Irish Republican Army (and its present-day successor, the Real IRA), dates back half a century or so, to around Bloody Sunday, 1972, when (to quote Wikipedia) ". . . 26 unarmed civil-rights <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Civil_rights_movement#Civil_rights_moveme nt_in_Northern_Ireland> protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/British_Army> . Thirteen males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after, while the death of another man four-and-a-half months later was attributed to the injuries he received on that day." (The politicians on both sides are just beginning to work together in a ramshackle form of NI devolved government, but the 12ft high steel walls between some Protestant and Catholic areas of Londonderry still remain.) Because Western governments have well-nigh destroyed the bank-note monetary system (and banks continued the job in the financial sector), and because politicians of both the left and the right haven't the least idea how to mend the 2007/8 break in the 200-years old Great Consumer Goods Chain then we (in Western Europe) can only expect more trouble. As I write, riots are going on in Paris which are reminiscent of the three-day looting and arson of 12 months ago in London. Madrid is only just getting over a bout of it last week. Keith At 14:14 14/08/2012, Mike G wrote: http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_mid#/video/world/2012/08/13/german-neo - nazi-group.cnn _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/> _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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