This has just come through from National Geographic.
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A video of Brazilian Indians being shot at by masked gunmen. What species of animal are they, that they would shoot & kill their own kind? Well, you know Homo sapiens

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When I'm moving around the on-line forums of Environmental, Wildlife, Climate Change & Earth Sciences websites, I find folks analysing a particular theme, and never looking at the whole picture. How everything is connected. You may think this is strange, I often visit Stock Exchange sites, to see how global currencies are doing, checking the price of wheat & rice, oil & fertilizer, how's the Yen behaving with the $, all because I'm interested in Earth & Her environments. And I like to know what's making it all work. Or not.

Keeping my eyes & ears open to conflicts around the world. How they are being used by the adversaries on the media & political stage. In all of these conflicts there is starvation & lack of fresh water, & it's going to get worse. For a long time now, I've been saying that with Climate Change there'll be more & more conflicts over food & water.

With food prices rising dramatically around the world because of failed harvests & grain being grown for biofuel & not food, we will see the poor suffer even more than they do now, and with rainfall patterns changing, more drought & floods, making food production even harder for the poor.

Now, at long last, the US Intelligence Agencies have done a major assessment on Climate Change, and how it will effect US security. They say that action has to be taken or the security of the USA will be put under severe pressure, as nations around the globe become unstable because of conflicts & environmental disasters. It's a pity no one listened in the '80s, when this was first put forward to the governments of the world. At the time the US government said it wasn't a problem for them. Some joke. A case of “I'm alright Jack”.

Now they're not alright and they know it, but will they get their fingers & heads out of their arseholes & act now, because if they don't, the rest of the world won't either. Sadly, we need the US to take the lead in really cutting back on CO2 emissions & changing their energy production & policies away from fossil fuels. As I've said before, sod the shareholders it's the common people that count, for without their buying power profits will fall.

It is up to us, the Common People, to bring about the change. Hit them were it hurts, their profits. Look at how you shop. Where does the product come, is it local, national, or does it come from half way round the world. Use energy-saving light bulbs & other white goods, sod the dish-washer, you've got hands, do it yourself or get the kids to do it. When not in use, switch off all appliances, don't leave them on stand-by. Every little thing you can do, matters. In journals before, I have mentioned Prof. Eugene Odum, & my meeting with him. His quote, when being interviewed by a US PBS station journalist who asked him what was the worse case scenario with regards the environment, was...



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