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By Mark Lynas, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
In recent years, liberals and progressives have seen Pope Francis as a breath of fresh air — and with good reason. He has taken stronger action than his predecessors against child abuse by priests. He has toned down the church's denunciations of homosexuality. And he has argued that the rich must do more for the poor.
It is thus understandable that so many on the left have praised the Pope's new environmental encyclical Laudato Si. The document recognizes global warming as a serious concern, and calls for significant action.
Unfortunately, the Pope's commitment to progress goes no further than that. While he takes care to celebrate science, reason and innovation, Laudato Si is at heart a book-length repudiation of just about everything progressives care about.
Rising Freedom vs. Sinful Fall
The story told by the Pope in the encyclical stands in striking contrast to the one told by 18 leading environmental scientists, scholars and activists, including ourselves, in "An Ecomodernist Manifesto," released in April.
Where our manifesto argues that big environmental problems like climate change and species extinction are unintended consequences of prosperity — of people trying to improve their lives and the lives of their children — the Pope argues that they are the result of sin, specifically greed, and irresponsibility.
Indeed the Pope specifically rejects what he characterises as the "myth" of progress. Where ecomodernists believe solving environmental problems requires embracing modernization, the Pope looks askance at cities, birth control, and economic growth. The Pope rejects "a reduction in the birth rate" as "an attempt to legitimize the present model of distribution…"
It is not the sin of greed but rather aspirations to a better life that led countries from England to the US to China and India to burn huge quantities of coal. All sought to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
The Pope doesn't see any progress. Instead it's been one long fall from Eden. "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth," he laments.
While the Pope bemoans the burning of coal, oil and gas he does so without recognizing that increasing energy consumption in developing countries is a precondition for poverty reduction. He seems to have no understanding of trade-offs — or the fact that pretty much all the projected future carbon emissions increases will come from the developing world.
Consider that while the coal boom creates global warming, it also frees people from burning wood — the toxic smoke of which killed four million people last year. And as Europe, the US and China have gotten richer, all have stepped up efforts to replace coal with solar, wind, natural gas and nuclear.
Progressive Ecomodernism
With abundant solar, nuclear and other clean energy technologies, climate change can be restrained to tolerable levels while allowing for major poverty-reducing increases in energy consumption. And with continuing agricultural innovation we will be able to double food production as needed to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050.
This is a progressive ecomodernist vision — unfortunately, none of it appeals to the Pope. The encyclical inveighs against technological innovation, economic efficiency and the market. This is not a world where the poor might benefit from new technologies, whether better seeds or cell phones, or international trade.
Nobody disputes that economic growth does not benefit everyone equally, or that it can lead to environmental deterioration, but growth is also essential to reducing poverty. Poverty is, at its simplest level, the under-consumption of resources, whether of food, water or other necessities for a dignified livelihood.
Meanwhile, economic globalization and international trade have been beneficial to reducing poverty. China, not North Korea, is the workshop of the world. China's massive accumulations of wealth and emergence from poverty and structural famine have come about precisely because is has exported enormous quantities of goods to the supposedly sinful, over-consuming rich countries of the global North.
None of this is to embrace neoliberalism or laissez-faire. Development and environmental protection require strong governments to provide social safety nets, social goods like healthcare and education, sensible regulations, infrastructure and to support R&D.
With his explicit and repeated condemnations of the "technocratic paradigm" the Pope rejects the prospect of human technical innovation having the potential to do anything more than merely create ever-greater problems.
One popular idea among environmentalists is that, instead of economic growth, the wealthiest two billion should redistribute their wealth to the poor. Setting aside the practical reality that is highly unlikely to ever occur, economics is not a zero-sum game. Indeed, it is rapid economic growth and technological innovation in developing nations that is required to reduce carbon emissions to zero and eradicate extreme poverty.
Freedom from Misery
In Europe, this same Church fought against the Enlightenment, asserted the divine right of kings, battled to maintain feudalism and serfdom, resisted the rise of democracy and in recent decades opposed womens' control over their fertility and the human right to sexual self-determination.
Laudato Si is very relevant to the emerging ecomodernist movement because it makes explicit the ascetisism, romanticism and reactionary paternalism inherent in many aspects of traditional environmentalist thinking. It also helpfully draws out the religiously-originated narratives that underpin a lot of green themes of sinfulness/redemption and end-times doomsaying on issues like climate change.
Ecomodernist values of progress, democracy and human rights and freedoms have little place in the Pope's encyclical. In making his anti-modernist views so clear, and in identifying them so clearly with traditional green thinking, Pope Francis may have done us all a favour.
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The Pope sees it, as it is. Big Greedy Corporations peddling their wares, fogetting what it is doing to the environment and to the health of the people, all for the Mighty Dollar….End of Story!↓
Hardly. He complains about the impact humanity is having on the planet but opposes birth control.
As Mark points out he's also apparently unaware that development that provides power, clean water, education and healthcare saves lives and that we can do a lot in that regard without ruining everything.
It's also worth pointing out that as people do better economically, birth rates fall (contraception I presume). So perhaps the best thing would be to develop as fast and clean as we can and get the Pope to change his mind on birth control.
That is bullshit mate … I'm NOT a catholic, but he speaks the truth, & it's not political, he is just as entitled to make comment as the next person. He is the head of a state, so why shouldn't he air his views ?
I think most of these people who are against coal etc, probably own shares that are affected by its demise !!
Most of our politicians own a huge portfolio, lets see if they have any interest at all !!↓
He is right about what? That we should regress to communism or better yet to the middle ages? That abortion is bad? That gender equality is an myth? That embryo research is wicked? Could you please be more specific?
Fundamentally his message is the same as Bill Mollison's
"I think science without ethics is sociopathology. To say, "I'll apply what I know regardless of the outcome" is to take absolutely no responsibility for your actions. I don't want to be associated with that sort of science." Bill Mollison
In this regard the Pope is spot on.
Scientists back Pope Francis on global warming
Pontiff draws praise for adding moral and religious imperative to argument on dangers of climate change
I would also add that your publication High Energy Planet contradicts the thrust of your progressiveness. You guys came out on the wrong side of this and this will play right into the hands of those who do not subscribe to concepts of climate change.
ADB: Poor face greater climate risks
Manila (UPI) Jun 24, 2015 – A report from the Asian Development Bank finds widening income gaps in the Asia-Pacific leaves the poor more exposed to the risks of climate change. Vinod Thomas, general director of an independent evaluation at the ADB, said wealth gaps in the region have secondary consequences. "Climate change hurts the poor disproportionally," he said. "Environmental shocks push the poor into … morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/ADB_Poor_face_greater_climate_risks_999.html
I'm sorry, after 18 years of the satellites showing no warming, with none of the human-adjusted records even showing the lowest predicted warming. With no adverse trends in severe weather … the pope couldn't have chosen a worse time to jump on the failed global warming wagon – just when all the wheels have come off.
Barring some miracle we sceptics have won and there's nothing you or he can do to change that now for one simple reason: mother nature is a sceptic.↓
Repeating lies does not make you a sceptic Mike. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that the empirical evidence supporting AGW is incredibly strong. Dig yet deeper still and you'll find it isn't caused by cheap energy so much as it is caused by industrial agriculture and deforestation. Although of course industrial agriculture isn't possible without cheap energy.
Ultimately more carbon is lacking in our agricultural soils than was ever burnt as coal oil and gas simply due to the so called "green revolution" of chemical fertilizers. It was an experiment that was doomed to failure before it even started. Short term increase in food production followed by long term world wide ecosystem failure. That's what we are just beginning to see now with AGW. It's just a symptom of gradually increasing ecosystem failure over approx 40-50% of the land surface.
In this respect the Pope is spot on correct both scientifically and socially. The other effect of industrial agriculture was to drive countless millions farmers from the land and into poverty. The good stewards of the land driven into poverty while the rapist of the land increasingly take control. It is something that absolutely must change. There is no chance for it not to change. Either we change it with appropriate technology in agriculture, or we ride industrial ag to the bitter end and watch it collapse worldwide civilization. Choose.
Agreed, I see proof for global warming, but only for beneficial global warming. Where are the corpses?
Scott>>> Given the chance you neo-commies would argue that the Soviet Union still exists and that people are doing great over there. It is unbelievable really. Where is the warming? Where is the worldwide ecosystem failure? and (If the green revolution failed) where are the masses of starving people your doom monger teachers predicted?
Neo commies? Are you kidding? What gave you that ridiculous idea? Not only am I not a commie of any variety, In point of fact I am a farmer, which in USA means small businessman, (conservative in fact, like most farmers who refuse government subsidies) it has absolutely nothing to do with the robust science and empirical evidence that AGW is very real. Nor does it have the slightest thing to do Industrial agriculture destroying the soils worldwide.
The real issue is whether capitalism will only support industrial giants or whether capitalism is the way forward for small businesses too? Maybe you are too beholden to your plutocrats and believe their false doctrine that the only alternative to their system is communism and socialism? In my opinion a plutocracy is nearly the same thing as communism. Which dictator do you wish to serve? As for me, I reject both. The "working class" should be working for themselves, not any government or plutocratic overlords. The best way to achieve that is with capitalism, but for small business, not the elites.
When it comes to AGW though, denialism gets you nowhere. Since you seem to favor a plutocracy, consider this. There is no fundamental reason a plutocracy is forced to cause AGW or deny any of the rest of the harm they cause. So theoretically it is possible to keep the system you hold dear and stop AGW. But not by denial, that's certain. Since you are in denial, a common symptom of those drunk with power, keep in mind, the pitchforks are coming.
Did you actually read Laudato Si?
(I haven't yet, it's 148pp, but intend to.)
You know the current RC definition of Sin which the Pope means when uses that word is: 'a misuse of freedom'? (In RC teaching, 'freedom' is both negative and positive types, but most often referring to positive freedom (compatible with Isaiah Berlin's sense.)
You really don't think there's any callous selfish greed involved, any indifference to the suffering of other people because they're foreign, outrageously extravagant wastefulness taken as 'normal' and as a personal necessity, and a fundamental attitude problem across all cultures of regarding individual consumer choices as paramount over relationships and responsibilities?
Are you just stuck on the old world lexicon and assumed that the Catholic traditional lexicon means it's really anti-progress or anti-ecomodernism?
The last little paragraph is a perfect example of the genetic fallacy. Just because the Church *was* a product of its times 100s and 1000s of years ago does not necessarily mean it is *essentially* the same as it was then. It is again a product of its time, consisting of humans being our usual mixture of horror, glory and mediocrity, altho admittedly with considerable lag.↓
Sorry, but pope Francis is perfectly right, and your maneuvers to "save your baby" is lost with the failing capitalism.↓
OK, the Pope might have got most of the solutions wrong but then he sees the issue from the perspective of leader of a massive religious organisation. The important thing is that, as you say, he recognises the problem: a rise in green house gasses caused by human emissions. I think few people, even amongst his followers, would actually look to him for the practical answers.
I also think that your faith in technology to provide the complete solution is misguided. The belief, for instance, that more technological development in agriculture will carry on producing the increase in output we've seen over that last 60 years. This increase in output has been largely the result of fossil fuelled tractors and fertilisers and from bringing more and more land into production. But without properly sustainable farming methods the soil is being, literally, 'used up' and the point is fast approaching when output will go down. And technology struggles when we run out of water as a result of climate change.
The solution is complex and needs to be worked out by global agreement, but it will be a mixture of technology and a sensible return to natural and sustainable practices.The most productive agriculture, for instance, is a small scale mixture of complementary plants and animals; where the grower is as concerned as much for the long-term productivity of his soil as he is for this year's yield. The solution lies in recognising that quality, not quantity, is what satisfies the human soul. And an end to short-term thinking.↓
There are many things in this latest papal encyclical that get the facts right. The pope backs science in its coverage of climate change, pollution, freshwater scarcity, and loss of biodiversity. But the pope goes further drawing in global inequality, quality of life and weak-willed governments in his observations of what is wrong and has to be made right. In reading the 184-page letter to Catholics he gets a number of things wrong. His discussion on GMO is a reflection of his own conflicted thoughts. But what he is calling for "enforceable international agreements, transparent political processes, no concealment of actual environmental impact, from business and government, are responsible messages to deliver.
You may object to his rant about "technoscience" but it is hard to argue that he is wrong when he states "neglecting to monitor the harm done to nature and the environmental impact of our decisions is only the most striking sing of a disregard for the message contained in the structures of nature itself." How can anyone call it wrong-headed when the pope calls for "ecological spirituality" as a governing force to "protect the world and not prey on it."↓
Great article – absolutely bang on. Am sharing to FB where I will probably have to argue the toss!↓
Apparently the anti-capitalists haven't visited Poland recently.↓
You write:
Unfortunately, the Pope's commitment to progress goes no further than that. While he takes care to celebrate science, reason and innovation, Laudato Si is at heart a book-length repudiation of just about everything progressives care about.
– See more at: http://www.marklynas.org/2015/06/a-pope-against-progress/#sthash.L9jUrwvK.dpuf
One can be an environmentalist and not be a progressive. You totally misunderstand biblical history and where the Pope is coming from. Your advocacy of population control, a concept that was rejected in the 1970s, is
elitist and racist. And if your concepts of ecomodernism rest explicitly on population control, then I reject your concepts and theories.
MIT announced last the week that the science underpinning the Pope's thesis is correct and a welcome assistance to the discussion on climate change.↓
The encyclical stance on abortion, gender equality, embryo research, etc, certainly cannot please liberals. Let me tell you more: its crude Nature worshiping is uncomfortable –to say the least- for any Catholic moderately aware of the first commandment.↓
I strongly suspect that you haven't read what the Pope wrote.
'Ascetisism, romanticism and reactionary paternalism?' This is just lazy name-calling, as so many of your blog posts are. You seem far more interested in dividing people up into opposing categories – 'reactionaries' v 'progressives', 'modernists' v 'romantics' – than in doing the hard and intelligent work of digging into the nuances of what is actually happening in the world.
if your aim is to play politics, well done – you do it well. If your aim is to find the truth and improve things in the world – try less abuse and more thinking.
The advance of technology is a hugely complex issue. Many of its opponents raise serious concerns. Even many of its proponents, such as Kevin Kelly, Bill Joy or Bill Gates – experts, unlike yourself, not only in what 'technology' does but in its momentum and intenal logic – would agree with Francis when he writes:
"The idea of promoting a different cultural paradigm and employing technology as a mere instrument is nowadays inconceivable. The technological paradigm has become so dominant that it would be difficult to do without its resources and even more difficult to utilize them without being dominated by their internal logic."
Setting up nasty 'reactionaries' who hate 'progress' against compassionate 'progressives' who want to help 'the poor' is just childish. It doesn't advance the debate. It doesn't even help your cause. It ignores all the discussions about what 'progress' actually means, and all of the forces around the world, within and without, which drive change. To set up 'modernity' and 'enlightenment' as monolithic things is equally meaningless. I wonder: do you really believe in these categories, or are they just useful tools for you to advance your agenda?
You may be involved in a personal crusade against everything you once believed, as may the other 'ecomodernists' you quote here, but like all crusades it is proving ultimately simplistic and destructive. Think harder.↓
Pope Francis Highlights the Moral Imperative of Climate Action
Posted: 18 Jun 2015 06:00 AM PDT
Pope Francis brings a clear and powerful moral voice to a climate change debate too often clouded by competing ideologies. He reminds us of our responsibilities to the planet and to one another, and makes plain the stakes and the urgency of stronger action.read morehttp://www.theenergycollective.com/seidel/2241276/pope-francis-highlights-moral-imperative-climate-action?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29↓
The Poor Need Affordable Energy
Reducing energy poverty means reducing energy costs
You might be well served viewing this video:
Fr. Barron on Pope Francis' Encyclical "Laudato Si"
to get a better understanding of the biblical underpinnnings.↓
It's not an easy task for many Catholics to digest the words of this Pope who is quite different in his views from the dogmatic, narrow minded ultraorthodoxe predecessor Benedikt.
For me as a Lutheran it's much easier and very rewarding to read (and I agree it's important to read more than one article about him) the ideas Francis is now putting into the light of a church, that is in dire need to modernize after years of the regressive minded Pope from Germany.
Do I share all of Francis views ? hardly – but to get so ignorant, like the many conservatives posters here on the blog, to call him a communist, really is just a sign of intellectual indecency.
The use of religion to justify greed and egoism, was never a Christian value in any church … until the evangelical Megachurches in the US popped up and invented the mantra ' God wants you to be rich' – an obscene perversion of religious values in order to capture a broader bigger and better paying audience.
This Pope is doing the right thing: asking why it is, that so many in the world find greed to be a human vice…↓
The Church is not a temporal institution. It does not need reform today as it didn't need it 500 years ago. There has always been the spirit of communism, even before Marx (a son of the protestant reform's fatherland), and the Catholic Church has always resisted it.
Bergoglio is wrong and he can only lead the church into an insignificant secular institution (albeit all the money) like all the white protestant churches which have become little more than clubs for socialists with a tint
of Nature worshipers.
Not all the experts agree with you, Mr Lynas.
By the way, how far beyond journalism does your expertise extend?
Of course with advisors like Ted and Mike, you can expect to hammer home the point with authority, I suppose.
But – wait a minute. Isn't there some implicit acceptance of the Roman Catholic Church's acceptance of population increase in this paragraph about "Progressive Ecomodernism"?
"With abundant solar, nuclear and other clean energy technologies, climate change can be restrained to tolerable levels while allowing for major poverty-reducing increases in energy consumption. And with continuing agricultural innovation we will be able to double food production as needed to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050."
What is "Progressive Ecomodernism then? It looks to me more like a sales slogan than a plan to avoid an unsustainable ecological footprint on your local habitable planet.
Your sounding to me a bit like a profit-crazed technocrat, but hey, I'm no expert.
See also:
Despite being implored by Japanese Bishops to denounce nuclear power in his encyclical, the Pope did no such thing. That is quite remarkable. It would have cost him nothing to slam nuclear power. Not slamming nuclear arguably implies that the Pope is *not* against progress and *not* against technological development, nor expanded energy consumption or any of that.
Pity the authors of this article didn't seem to notice this?↓
Interesting how bad a reception your article is getting from commenters here, Mark, even those of very different persausions from each other. Perhaps this might give you and the Breakthrough people cause for a rethink? You have made a mess of this.
The job of the head of the Catholic church is not to tell 'liberals and progressives' what they want to hear. it is to lead Catholics, of whom there are 1.2 billion in the world. Your brand of rationalist scientism is not going to persaude them not to be Catholics, so you have two choices, as I see it. You can either sneer at the Pope for not buying into your brand of American techno-progress. Or you can engage with him. Today, for the first time in decades, you have a Pope that you – that we – can engage with. To have a Catholic leader issuing such a radical document as Francis did this week, calling for those 1.2 billion people to 'care for the Earth' is astonishing progress.
You – if you care for the world as you claim to do – should welcome this, embrace it, work with it. But do you care? What is your agenda? Protecting nature, as you claim – or pushing your brand of politics and economics in the name of 'progress'?↓
Clearly, Pope Francis' priorities have nothing directly to do with the energy business. But it is interesting to see him take note of renewable energy sources and to not dismiss nuclear energy as a non-starter. The encyclical is extremely well considered and worth attention by anyone interested in the subject. The Pope has the ability to shape attitudes broadly, so one must consider the encyclical an exceptionally compelling document, whatever one may feel about its details.
While there were many mentions about renewable energy resources in Laudato Si', he does also say things about nuclear energy technology.
"It must also be recognized that nuclear energy, biotechnology, information technology, knowledge of our DNA, and many other abilities which we have acquired, have given us tremendous power," wrote Pope Francis.
See On the Papal Encyclical & Nuclear Energy
Thanks, Ciaran. I broadly agree, but also-
The Pope's letter isn't just addressed to Catholics, actually, it's addressed to "all people of goodwill".
I usually like and agree with most of what Mark says, but this time I'm a little baffled by his rather uncharacteristically immoderate reaction.
I don't think there really has to be as big a conflict between Eco-modernism and the Pope's extension of Catholic Social Teaching to more explicitly include environmental justice too.
The main reason the Pope is getting involved is because AGW is a Social Justice issue (economic social justice, not identity politics 'Social Justice'). The rich minority countries and a highly aggregated distribution of the rich within those countries are disproportionately responsible for causing global climate change, but those who will be most severely affected and least economically positively free to mitigate the harms caused by climate change are the poor majority. Also it's a matter of justice to future generations, and of course non-human moral objects.
Essentially the difference between the Pope's version of environmental and social justice is that it focusses on relationship and responsibility, rather than on identity and conflict. Like CST synthesises the good concerns of Marxism with genuine Christian teaching on Human Dignity and response to the person as the basis for ethics, not 'historical dialectical materialism' or 'class war', in the same sort of way Laudato Si is trying to point out that the root of the problem and therefore the point to resolve it at is the lack of understanding and choice of a loving relationship with other people based on respect for humanity and accepting a unique human responsibility, because we are the most powerful species, to care for the rest of the world.
The Pope would probably quite happily reconsider his view about GMOs if presented with the facts in an impartial tone. Of course I think he's wrong about assuming associations between breeding techniques and environmental and social ethical outcomes, but he's open to facts and reason, especially if approached in a sincere and positive way.
Consider the time he called transgender people "destroying the natural order of Creation" and "like a nuclear bomb", and then invited twenty trans* human rights activists to dinner to apologise and listen to them.
He's 74 and comes from a very conservative background, it's hardly surprising if he sometimes says things like most of our embarrassing grandparents do occasionally. He does at least really listen and respond like a fully human being when he realises he's made a mistake.
Papal infallibility is actually extremely specific and narrowly defined – it is *only* when a pope "declares and defines" a *doctrine* (not a moral teaching) that is already held by the whole Church, and consistent with sacred scripture and the sense of the faith in the whole Church. (Infallibility is still hugely controversial *within* the Catholic Church, basically a Vatican Council 1 partisans versus Vatican Council 2 partisans ongoing battle of the books.) When JP II tried to declare 'artificial' contraception sinful, most of the Catholic laity and clergy politely ignored him and carried on anyway. *Preventative* contraception usage rates are nearly the same in Catholic populations as in general population. Abortion rates are probably lower, but even that most Catholics are not as black and white about it as the official hierarchy. The legal notion that before parturition a foetus is absolutely not a person and after parturition it suddenly magically absolutely is a person is obviously arbitrary and a little bit absurd, but so too is the extreme opposite position that even a first trimester foetus is fully a human person 'in natural law' (I believe in natural law in principle, btw, but this is a silly interpretation of it) while it's hardly differentiated and has no thalamo-cortex to support consciousness yet. Both are extreme and a bit arbitrary. Official RC teaching does not say that every sort of military operation in all circumstances is absolutely wrong, so there is clearly scope for some nuances in other areas of interpretation of Humanae Dignitatis, and in practice most Catholics other than the official hierarchs do interpret canon law with more compassion than strictness.
Bill Black: A Harvard Don is Enraged that Pope Francis is "Opposed to the World Economic Order"
Posted: 23 Jun 2015 12:56 AM PDT
An economics professor rails against Pope Francis for daring to point out that we don't live in the best of all possible worlds.http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/bill-black-a-harvard-don-is-enraged-that-pope-francis-is-opposed-to-the-world-economic-order.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29
The first comments we received after writing a book on climate change called Extinction: The Climatic Time Bomb and recommending new generation nuclear energy we then concluded that overpopulation is the cause of the Planet's dilemma. A Catholic neighbour sent this feedback which he received from his Church. -The world Future A realistic look at Islamic domination. Think and act as to what we can do about it. http://www.youtube.com/embed/6-3X5hIFXYU↓
I am just reading Six Degrees by Mark Lynas and am rather surprised by the tenor of this article. Has he read Naomi Kleins' "This Changes Everything"? It is suggested in this article "With continuing agricultural innovation we will be able to double food production as needed to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050". By which clearly it means I presume by continuing with the massively damaging industrialised agriculture that the world has largely adopted. This seems surprising since Lynas himself talks in "Six Degrees" of the instability of the North America's breadbasket region and how it is resting on what are essentially at present stabilised sand dunes which if mis-managed will simply blow away and return to desert.
I was born in 1956, twenty years before Lynas and I remember reading "A Blueprint for Survival" when I was 15. I find that more recent "environmentalists" seem to like to put down those people who always realised that the environment was something that we should cherish and talk of bearded hippies (which either ignores the women or implies they also have facial hair!).
I am disappointed in the slant of this article as I am impressed reading Lynas' book and would forgive the odd bearded hippy comment for the overall excellence of the script but I get the impression he has possibly been taken over and influenced by those who believe the only future is by co-operating with big business. Didn't Lynas talk also of a belief in technological fixes being a form of denial yet this is apparently what he is now advocating.↓
This a segment from Geoff Sleeman's book "Population depletion.
Any form of population reduction runs against the ethos of most civilizations and nations and in particular the established religions of the world. Reduction will only be considered if a convincing explanation of its necessity in the face of the alternative is widely known and accepted. To establish this acceptance is the largest and most formidable task facing humankind. The most affected group in all civilizations are women as the ultimate burden rests with them. There will be tremendous opposition from religions and most other male dominated groups.
One vital step in any humane method of population depletion is to overcome the entrenched desire of powerful groups that are forever urging increased population expansion; their unwritten reasons vary, some could be for larger markets; others to man wars or it may be to give power in numbers to religions. It is essential for womankind of all nations to be educated to the dangers of over population and to give them the methods of contraception. The objection to any form of this from male dominated groups will be huge, well financed and organized."
I think 1 answer to refugees trying 4 citizenship in any country now is to require men who already have 2 children should have a vasectomy.- I am finding women in my own circle are vocal when they recognize the threat of Muslim dominance made clear in the youtube that I included in my reply 9th July. I now learn that the Russian army will have reached 50% Muslim in four and half years.↓


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In her preconference session Sunday night at the Schwab Impact conference in Washington, Liz Ann Sonders displayed a telling slide showing the widening gap among U.S. banks between their high levels of deposits, which have been "soaring, thanks to the Fed," and their stubbornly low levels of actually making loans.
So what will lead banks to start lending?
In an interview the following day, Schwab's chief investment strategist suggested that it may turn out that "animal spirits will shake the banks loose." She argued that banks are already in "pretty loose territory," and that "if your competitors are lending you'll start lending." She said that overall, the banks were "in great shape," there there was "plenty of pent-up demand," and that the rules were "not yet written" on Dodd-Frank implementation of stricter bank regulation.
She also indicated that home prices would "probably boom" in the fourth quarter of 2013, though she didn't specifically tie that rise to any forecast of increased bank lending. However, if the banks do start lending, that could be the "next positive surprise" for the markets and economy. She tempered that optimism with a caveat, saying it "could be problematic" if velocity picks up, which could then "run the risk of inflation."
Responding to another question (sent to this writer from a social media follower) on whether corporate profits could continue to rise, she said that the third quarter of 2012 was the trough in earnings growth. She expects corporate earnings growth of 6% this year, and an increase to 10% next year. "Profit margins will peak higher than many think," she said, adding that the S&P 500 overwhelmingly tends to do well on those margin peaks.
So why are some people starting to worry about another market bubble? Sonders believes fears of a bubble are backed much more by behavior than by the fundamental numbers on the economy and markets. She reiterated her belief that a market correction in the mid-single digits would be good for the markets, since it would "help keep euphoria in check" and allow the more steady, if less than spectacular, markets and economy to "grind forward."
Check out Schwab's Sonders: Market Remains 'Quite Cheap' on ThinkAdvisor.

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Tottenham to meet Anzhi in Europa League
Two-time UEFA Europa League winners Sevilla have been in the same group as Bundesliga side Freiburg in this season's competition.
The Andalusians last won the tournament - then known as the UEFA Cup - in 2007, beating La Liga Espanyol rivals on penalties in the final.
Current boss Unai Emery will be out to try and replicate that feat, but will need to overcome Christian Streich's side, as well as Portuguese side Estoril and Slovan Liberec of the Czech Republic if they are to progress from Group H.
Tottenham are also aiming to secure their third Europa League title, and last year's quarter-finalists will be confident of progressing from a group featuring Anzhi Makhachkala, Moldovan champions Sheriff and Norwegian outfit Tromso, who benefited from Besiktas' expulsion.
Rubin Kazan reached the last eight in 2012-13 before losing to eventual winners Chelsea, and they face another English side in the form of FA Cup winners Wigan Athletic, with Slovenia's Maribor and Zulte Waregem of Belgium completing the line-up in Group D.
Eintracht Frankfurt, who won the competition in 1980, meet 1996 finalists Bordeaux in a pool that also features APOEL - reinstated after Fenerbahce were expelled - and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
PSV Eindhoven, winners in 1978, face Dinamo Zagreb, Chornomorets Odesa and Ludogorets in their group, while Fiorentina, runners-up in 1990, will take on Dnipro, Pacos Ferreira and Pandurii.
AZ made it through the play-off round on away goals (3-3 agg) on Friday after their second leg with Atromitos was abandoned in the second half due to a fire at the AFAS Stadion on Thursday.
The Dutch side will now meet PAOK, Maccabi Haifa and Shakhter Karagandy, the Kazakh side competing after being knocked out in the UEFA Champions League play-offs by Celtic on Wednesday.
Swansea boss Michael Laudrup - who spent a stint as Mallorca manager earlier in his career - will return to Spain after his side were drawn against Valencia in Group A, which also contains Kuban Krasnodar and St Gallen.
Lyon enter the group stage after being eliminated from the Champions League by Real Sociedad, and they will have to face another Spanish side in Real Betis, who have been drawn against them in Group I along with Vitoria Guimaraes and Rijeka of Croatia.
Coppa Italia winners Lazio are set to face Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw and Apollon in their group, while Dynamo Kiev will take on Genk, Rapid Vienna and Thun.
Group C sees Belgian side Standard Liege drawn against Red Bull Salzburg, Elfsborg and Esbjerg.
The final of the Europa League takes place at Juventus Stadium, Turin on May 14.
Full list of UEFA Europa League groups for the 2013-14 season:
Group A: Valencia (Spain), Swansea (England), Kuban Krasnodar (Russia), St Gallen (Switzerland)
Group B: PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Chornomorets Odesa (Ukraine), Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Group C: Standard Liege (Belgium), Salzburg (Austria),Elfsborg (Sweden), Esbjerg (Denmark)
Group D: Rubin Kazan (Russia), Wigan (England), Maribor(Slovenia), Zulte Waregem (Belgium)
Group E: Fiorentina (Italy), Dnipro (Ukraine), Pacos Ferreira (Portugal), Pandurii (Romania)
Group F: Bordeaux(FRA), APOEL(CYP), Eintracht Frankfurt(GER), Maccabi Tel-Aviv(ISR)
Group G: Dynamo Kyiv (UKR), Genk (BEL),Rapid Wien (AUT), Thun(SUI)
Group H: Sevilla (Spain), Freiburg (Germany), Estoril (Portugal), Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic)
Group I: Lyon (France), Real Betis (Spain), Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal), Rijeka (Croatia)
Group J: Lazio (Italy),Trabzonspor (Turkey), Legia Warsaw (Poland), Apollon (Cyprus)
Group K: Tottenham (England), Anzhi Makhachkala (Russia), Sheriff (Moldova), Tromso (Norway)
Group L: AZ (Netherlands), PAOK (Greece), M. Haifa (Israel), Shakhter Karagandy (Kazakhstan)
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Have you ever stopped to think about how you learned to tie your shoes? It's a skill which is pretty close to a necessity, at least in Western culture. For me, the experience was rather difficult, yet now I can look back and say that I learned about fear and hope, and how they motivate us. Perceiving the difference between these two motivators is a much more valuable lesson than simply learning how to work with shoelaces.
When I started kindergarten, I was playing with action figures and watching Saturday morning cartoons, just as most 5-year-old American boys do. Unlike my classmates however, I was already at a comprehension level somewhat more advanced than theirs. I read adult-level books on subjects such as astronomy, Egyptology, and paleontology, for example, and enjoyed listening to Haydn and Beethoven symphonies. In short, I was (and still am) a nerd.
Yet whatever intellectual capabilities I may have had, there was one thing which I absolutely could not get down: tying my shoes. In fact, I was the very last person in my kindergarten class to learn how to tie my shoes properly. Despite my interest in subjects like physics, I would sit there for hours trying to figure out how in the world to coordinate my fingers to pull the two ends of the shoelace into a bow.
As the school year wore on, I became more and more embarrassed by the fact that I seemed to be the only one who could not tie his shoes. Frequently, I had to go to my teacher for help, if my shoes became untied on the playground. She would show me how to do it, but try as I might I simply could not replicate her movements. And kids being kids, my classmates started to take note of my inability to learn this skill, and began mocking me for it.
At home, my parents did their best to try to help me learn how to tie my shoes, although with my being left-handed and naturally clumsy, no doubt I tried their patience no end. Despite hours of practice, I seemed to make no progress at all. I became deeply upset, and asked God why He couldn't just show me how to tie my shoes. Yet I was doing so not because I thought it was important that I learn, but rather so that the kids at school would stop making fun of me. In other words, I was motivated by fear, rather than hope.
Then one day in late spring, as I was approaching my 6th birthday, I remember being in the coat closet – or "cloak room" as they were called in Catholic schools – and noticing that my left shoe was untied. By this point, I had become so used to being mocked that I just accepted it and told no one about the regular taunts I received. I still wanted to learn how to tie my shoes, but whereas before I wanted to do so in order to avoid humiliation, now I wanted to learn how to do it because I was really looking forward to moving up to first grade, and being in school all day long. I knew there was a risk that I might not be able to go, unless I could tie my shoes.
So instead of asking for help one more time, I bent down to try to tie my shoe. And for no apparent reason, everything finally fell into place. Eureka!
I was so overjoyed that I ran out to tell my teacher the good news. I can still remember the look of relief on her face when she found out I could do it. No doubt she had not been looking forward to writing an end-of-year report on whether I was ready for 1st grade, explaining why I still could not tie my shoes.
Last evening I thought of this experience following a conversation with someone whose opinion I value highly. Over the past few months I've been thinking about what I ought to be doing with my life, since I just keep ploughing away, doing what I do, but at the same time sensing that I ought to be moving in another direction. To date, I have seen no lifelong instruction manual saying, "Here's what you should do next." The response to my observation was, maybe He already has shown you what to do, but you just haven't realized it yet.
And that comment brings me back to where this blog post began. Because when it came to learning how to tie my shoes, I did not have a supernatural messenger appear beside me and guide my fingers, no matter how much I wanted someone else to just make things happen for me. People showed me what to do, but my primary goal for a long time was not to improve myself, but rather to escape from something negative. Fear, rather than hope, was my motivator.
Eventually, I stopped worrying and starting hoping. I wanted to succeed and move up to 1st grade, so I could enjoy all of the knowledge I would be able to pick up there. I wasn't going to get there if I kept worrying. Instead, I chose to keep trying, until eventually I was finally able to achieve what I needed to.
Sure, I would have liked the instant gratification and deliverance from self-doubt that a sudden answer to my prayers would have given me. Instead, I had to learn – not for the first time – the virtue of holding on, and persisting in the face of the unknown, whatever the difficulties. In other words, by having to wait so long, I had to learn how to hope.
And hope does not disappoint.


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Red-Hot Herd win again
Jesus Feliciano had three more hits and scored a pair of runs as Buffalo defeated Lehigh Valley 6-5, on Sunday afternoon. Josh Thole added three hits as Buffalo collected their fifth consecutive victory.
Feliciano collected two singles and a triple for his third consecutive multi-hit game. He extend his hit streak to a Bisons' season-high 12 games with a base knock off IronPigs' starter Nate Bump. Feliciano also drove home a run with a bloop single in the fourth and used his three-bagger in the sixth inning to score the eventual game-winning run.
Feliciano's average now stands at .383, an amazing 34 points higher than any other batter in the International League. After going 3-5 on Sunday, he has averaged .458 since his hit streak began on May 12.
Like Feliciano all season, the Bisons attack was a constant force on Sunday. The Herd scored in four consecutive innings, starting with a pair of runs in the third. Andy Green and Mike Hessman drove home runs with hits to give Buffalo a 2-1 edge.
Hessman now has 48RBI on the season, nine more than any IL slugger.
Feliciano and Green plated runs in the fourth inning and Ruben Tejada knocked in Mike Cervenak in the fifth. Green followed Feliciano's triple in the sixth inning with a sacrifice fly to drive in his second run of the game.
The run support went to the benefit of Tobi Stoner (3-4), who won his third consecutive decision. The Bisons' starter allowed four runs on six hits and struck out six batters. At the plate, Stoner also singled, scored a run and laid down a sacrifice bunt.
Bobby Parnell used a 99 mph fastball to work through the seventh and eighth innings with five strikeouts. John Lujan struck out the side around a base hit in the ninth inning for his second save in as many days. Bisons pitchers combined to strike out a season-high 14 batters.
Bisons Notes: Prior to Sunday's game, the Bisons activated INF/OF Mike Cervenak off the disabled list. Cervenak went 1-4 after missing the last 17 games with right plantar fasciitis. INF Mike Jacobs was ejected after a strikeout in the fourth inning. Jacobs went 0-3 in the game and failed the reach base for the first time in his last 23 games.


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The Great Beach Drive, located in Queensland's stunning Australia's Nature Coast, provides a road trip like no other. Offering the experience of driving on some of the world's most stunning beaches, through some of the most idyllic National Parks and World Heritage listed areas, this is truly a once in a lifetime drive holiday experience.
The Great Beach Drive connects the Sunshine Coast with the World Heritage listed Fraser Island (K'Gari) and the Fraser Coast - forming a large part of the Australia's Nature Coast. This region is home to an abundance of wildlife including kangaroos, whales, turtles, dingoes, dugongs, platypus and the world's largest variety of bird species.
The drive route, approximately 380 kilometres long, also travels through landscape steeped in culture and etched in Australian history, covering two UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, a World Heritage Marine Park and the largest sand island in the world.
Depart your accommodation on the Sunshine Coast in your four wheel drive hire vehicle and head north to Noosa North Shore, the southern gateway to the Great Beach Drive.
Cross the Noosa River on the vehicle ferry at Tewantin and disembark at Noosa North Shore. Take the time to reduce the amount of air in your tyres to prepare for sand driving, and take the third beach access road to commence your Great Beach Drive experience, approximately 1km from the vehicle ferry.
Continue on to Double Island Point, where the surfer amongst us, can enjoy the world's longest right hand surf break. Non–surfers can choose to take a walk up to the lighthouse for panoramic views overlooking the bay and on to Fraser Island (K'Gari). From July to November, spot a humpback whale as this part of the coast becomes a Whale Highway as the humpback whales travel to Hervey Bay as a part of their annual migration.
Take the Leisha Track (be sure to check tide times before proceeding any further) onto Rainbow Beach, a picturesque seaside town overlooked by towering and colourful sand cliffs at heights of up to 250 metres, after which the town is named.
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Level 1: Suitable for the disabled with assistance
Get up early and explore the picturesque Carlo Sand Blow and watch one of the best sunrises you are likely to experience. The Carlo Sand Blow is a unique 'moonscape' sand mass that covers over 15 hectares and provides expansive views of the towering coloured sands surrounding Rainbow Beach.
Replace the vehicle for a day with the freedom of horsepower. Rainbow Beach has a long history with horses, from the use of horses in the early days of exploration, to the brumbies that still run free on Inskip Peninsular, and through the Poona National Park. In Rainbow Beach you can horse ride in a stunning beach location, and take your horse for a swim in the ocean with the stunning coloured sands as your background.
With endless kilometres of beach, enjoy some beach fishing for the afternoon or simply enjoy the diversity of the flora and fauna that calls this stunning location home.
Finish your day with a sunset cocktail and a beautiful meal at one of Rainbow Beach's many restaurants and pubs, while reviewing the tide times and condition report for the following day's adventure.
Stay overnight in Rainbow Beach.
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Depart Rainbow Beach and travel to Inskip Point, taking the barge to the southern end of World Heritage listed Fraser Island (K'Gari). Enjoy the thrill of driving on Fraser Island's (K'Gari's) 75 Mile Beach to the township of Eurong. Be sure to look out for Australia's Jabiru (a type of stork also found in South America) that calls the area home. Enjoy lunch at Eurong.
If you would like to explore more of the stunning east coast of Fraser Island (K'Gari), drive further north and stop at Lake Wabby, Eli Creek, the SS Maheno shipwreck and Indian Head.
You also shouldn't miss an opportunity to see Fraser Island (K'Gari) from the air whilst on 75 Mile Beach. This will be the one time you can experience a beach 'take off and landing', whilst exploring Fraser Island (K'Gari) from the air where you are also likely to see an abundance of wildlife including humpback whales, turtles and dugongs.
If time permits, continue on to the stunning Champagne Pools, a perfect swimming location where waves crash over rocks lining sandy pools with a golden froth reminiscent of champagne bubbles!
Check into your accommodation for the night along 75 Mile Beach.
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Depart your accommodation and continue on the Great Beach Drive taking the inland track west towards Kingfisher Bay. On your way across the island, stop at Central Station which was once home to a community of more than 100 people in the 1920's logging era. At Central Station you can explore Fraser Island (K'Gari) rainforest along a boardwalk that fringes the silently flowing and crystal clear Wanggoolba Creek.
From Central Station, drive to the magnificent Lake McKenzie, one of Fraser Island's (K'Gari's) most popular and well recognised freshwater lakes. With its powder white sand and crystal clear water, Lake McKenzie is truly a once in a lifetime swimming location.
Continue along the Great Beach Drive through Fraser Island's (K'Gari's) towering lush rainforests to Kingfisher Bay on the west coast of Fraser Island (K'Gari), and check into your accommodation for your overnight stay.
Whilst staying at Kingfisher Bay, be sure to try the resorts 'Bush Tucker Talk and Taste' dining experience. Using bush tucker ingredients sourced from Fraser Island (K'Gari) and used by the Butchulla people, the traditional owners of Fraser Island (K'Gari), this will be a dining experience that you will never forget!
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Depart Kingfisher Bay by vehicle Barge to River Heads on the mainland and drive into Hervey Bay on Queensland's Fraser Coast.
Hervey Bay is widely regarded as the whale watching capital of Australia, if not the world, and also offers some of Queensland's best fishing experiences as well as a range of beach café, dining and accommodation options.
The whale watching season in Hervey Bay takes place between July to November, and it is the only location along the east coast Australia where humpback whales deviate from their migratory path to rest and play in the calm sheltered waters between Hervey Bay and Fraser Island (K'Gari). There are a range of whale watching options located in Hervey Bay, including a range of 'swim with' and immersive experiences which allow you to get closer to humpback whales than ever before!! Whilst in Hervey Bay, a whale watching tour is an absolute must do.
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Enjoy the stunning west coast of Fraser Island (K'Gari) through a touring experience offered by members of the whale watching fleet in Hervey Bay, or explore Fraser Island (K'Gari) in style on a Fraser Island (K'Gari) Jet Ski Safari!
What ever option you decide to choose, both trips have it all, allowing you to get up close and personal with a variety of wildlife including turtles, dugongs, dolphins, a variety of fish species and even the Fraser Island (K'Gari) dingo.
The tours allow you to participate in a range of activities whilst exploring Fraser Island (K'Gari), including hiking, kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, fishing and stand up paddle boarding through the stunning creeks and estuaries that exist on the west coast of Fraser Island (K'Gari).
For something completely different, drive into the town of Maryborough, the home of the creator of Mary Poppins – PL Travers. Take the Magical Mary tour and step back in time, learning all about Maryborough's rich history and the origins of PL Travers. Start your Portside experience with a Portside Heritage Gateway Pass, which includes entry into Customs House Interpretive Centre, and the number of museums that are available.
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Rise and shine early so as not to miss the hand feeding of dolphins at Tin Can Bay. Rare Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphins can be seen at the boat ramp most mornings from 8am. View the wildlife at Tinnanbar with sea turtles hatching between November and March each year, or use this opportunity to spot a dugong, Australia's 'sea cow'. Drive the 49 kilometre back into Rainbow Beach then onto your final beach drive through the Leisha Track (be sure to check tide times before proceeding any further) to Double Island Point and enjoy the 80 kilometre drive through the Great Sandy Biosphere back to Noosa North Shore. In Noosa be sure to join one of the several operators who offer Noosa River sunset cruises. Sit back and relax and enjoy a glass of wine whilst exploring Woods Bay and experiencing the Lake Weyba wildlife before taking in the sunset at the river entrance. After your cruise check into your Noosa accommodation for the evening to complete your seven day Great Beach Drive Itinerary.
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Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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PrognoCIS is a cost-effective web-based Orthopedic EMR that helps your practice achieve Meaningful Use compliance and gives you and key staff anytime, anywhere access to essential patient information.
Benefits of Utilizing PrognoCIS Certified Orthopedics EMR Management Software
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- Interactive ROM & Strength Templates
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- Lumbosacral Disorders Templates
- Elbow Injury and Disorder Templates
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- Neuropathy Templates
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Rockport Rattler - Outlaw Max
Works best when fishing for these species of fish: Crappie, sacalait, spotted perch, sun perch, bluegill, etc... The Rockport Rattler® OutlawMAX ™ jigs come with three Arberdeen style hook in Black Nickel finish per jig. This helps when the larger crappie are very aggressive in the spring and helps your catch to strike ratio. These are available in three hook sizes, #4 (smallest), #2 and #1 (largest). Each contains a rattling chamber in the body of the jig. To enhance the fishing attracting qualities of the built in rattle, we use high quality light reflecting eyes. The Rockport Rattler® OutlawMAX ™ jigs work extremely well with your favorite crappie grub or tube and/or tipped with a minnow. A keeper barb is not needed as the plastics will hold on to the rattler chamber quite well, unless you are using a very large tube. The #4 hook OutlawMAX ™ jigs come in two weights - 1/8 oz or 1/4 oz. The #2 hook OutlawMAX ™ jigs come in three weights - 1/8 oz, 1/4 oz and 3/8 oz. The #1 hook OutlawMAX ™ jigs come in three weights - 1/4 oz, 3/8 oz and 1/2 oz. Two jigs per package