Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Natural Selection: Julian Huxley
Thursday, December 17, 2009
This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity
George Monbiot
Tuesday December 15 2009
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/14/climate-change-battle-redefine-humanity The angry men know that this golden age has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged [http://atlasshrugged.com/" title="Atlas Shrugged], they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.
Humanity is no longer split between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and progressives, though both sides are informed by the older politics. Today the battle lines are drawn between expanders and restrainers; those who believe that there should be no impediments and those who believe that we must live within limits.
For all their earnest self-restraint, the negotiators in the plastic city are still not serious, even about climate change. There's another great unmentionable here: supply. Most of the nation states tussling at Copenhagen [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/14/copenhagen-g77-africa-kyoto-suspended"
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Official day 4 at the crowded Bella Center.
Remember
delegates to attend. Now THAT is a change!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
WWFSmirnovinterview.wmv
Forests, Taiga,Tigers and the border with China..etc.
The name Vladivostok (Владивосток) loosely translates from Russian as "rule the East" a name based on that of Vladikavkaz, at that time a Russian fortress in the Caucasus. The traditional Chinese name for the city is Hǎishēnwǎi ( literally "sea cucumber cliffs").
Update:Sun.22.11.2009- Train to Copenhagen- "We left Vladivostok yesterday and are heading off to the Lake Baikal!
Update:Tuesday 24.11.2009- We have made a stop and a break from our Trans-Siberian Railway coach for one day of sightseeing at Lake Baikal. The temperature is just minus two degrees – it feels positively spring-like!
UPDATE:Monday December 1st,2009-Train to Copenhagen has now arrived in Moscow!
It is with mixed emotions we realise that the part of the symbolic Kyoto – Copenhagen journey taking place on the Trans-Siberian Railways is moving to an end. In addition to experiencing one of the most fabulous railway journeys in the world, we have enjoyed the best hospitality we could imagine.
SMILE!
Thank you for the e-mail.
Jacob Svendsen: "Let us dance, sing and smile all the way through this very serious business, and find the feeling of being part of something together in a large scale. The old way does not work, obviously, let us make a better way - together!"
