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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Don't Miss Dave Foreman at UNM
Free lecture & slide show
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 PM
SUB Ballroom C, UNM Campus, Albuquerque, NM
Join Dave Foreman for a raucous and inspiring evening about the future of conservation in North America. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in the environmental movement, Foreman offers bold, hopeful, and viable proposals for averting the current sixth mass extinction and creating a biologically-sustainable continent within the 21st Century. Foreman is the author of several books, including The Big Outside and Rewilding North America, and will be signing copies after the lecture. Contact UNM Wilderness Alliance at unmwild@unm.edu or 277-1316 for more information.
March 22, 2007 at 08:49 AM in Environment, Events | Permalink
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In response to your post about Dave Foreman, "environmental crisis" and activism I want to post a part from my article which examines the impact of consumerism/ industrialization on our minds and environment. Please read.
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.
Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.
A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.
A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.
To read the complete article please follow either of these links :
sushil_yadav
Posted by: sushil_yadav | Mar 23, 2007 6:49:37 AM
