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Category: Earth
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When you have peaceful, cooperative cities that are unfortified: no walls or fortresses – that have not developed weapons of death: there was no need for those things, as their neighbors were friendly – and violent warring tribes from the surrounding arid lands invade and destroy everything in their path, installing their vengeful, jealous…
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"Our hopes for peaceful human coexistence are not, as we are so often told, utopian dreams." Riane Eisler Peaceful cooperation existed long, long ago and set…
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…It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil rights lawyer who was tinkering with the machine, and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land if we just filed the next best lawsuit, or met the the governor, or organize the right number of people for the next protest,…
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So, in my alternate universe… There was no degradation of the earth. Clean Air. Clean Water. No lies, no wars in the oil rich Middle East, no lives lost. The U.S. military would be doing what it is charged with- protecting Democracy, not dismantling it worldwide. Cancer would still be a rare disease, not…
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What if, instead of multiple networks of highways, America was crisscrossed with lines of light rail? And there were lovely terminals scattered everywhere, and people could travel safely and comfortably, south to north and east to west and back again, in climate controlled modern rail cars? Imagine the lives that wouldn't have been…
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Imagine that over 100 years of air pollution from cars and trucks never happened. That the arduous task of extracting oil from the earth was abandoned. When Henry Ford was building cars, he experimented with bio-fuels, namely Hemp, the versatile plant that matured in a single season and grew in every state in…
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HELP! What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said, "This is a really bad idea." OR What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…
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When you bought groceries in the '50's and early 60's, they were packed in sturdy paper bags. These bags were then used as trash bags that, when full, were taken outside to metal trash cans. (I can still hear the sound of the metal cans on trash day!) Milk and soda came in…
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"…a soulful ecology is rooted in the feeling that this world is our home and that our responsibility to it comes not from obligation or logic, but from true affection. …As long as the heart is involved, care of the place will follow." Thomas Moore, Care of The Soul …
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"If kindness takes a little longer, it's worth the extra time." Eleanor McEvoy When we develop kindness towards ourselves, we can change the atmosphere of our days and lives; the atmosphere of our homes and work environments, and our relationships. Kindness, first for ourselves. All love and peace radiate from our…
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