Hey Kids!

Read some exciting news about the consequences of Himalayan glacial melt!

See link at-right-- and pass this 'blog on to 5 or more others who might care...

HOWWWWWWLLLL!!!!

Denial is Highly Consequential... biz as usual is global ecosystem collapse!

-ZMD

PS If you haven't, please see the Catton links at-right, and two posts down introducing him... an important writer/ researcher to know about if you don't yet.

If you've recommended ANY movie, TV show, band, restaurant, store, brand or technological gadget to ANYbody recently... PLEASE also pass this 'blog on to others... it's MORE IMPORTANT.

With oil prices rising, air travel's likely to continue getting more and more expensive, economically...

Unfortunately, there's a much greater price already being paid. I love the excitement, the education of travel, the opportunity to visit family over distances as much as any first-worlder, and am "guilty" of many miles of air-travel... but the greatest battle for each and all of us at this historic moment is "against" Denial... If we continue to travel the skies, we should each know the true Price.

Check out the "Cost of Flying" link at-right-- and pass this information on!!

HOWWWL!!!

-ZMD

William R. Catton, Jr. is a voice that must be heard... We Cannot Afford Denial!

HOWWWL!

Three links have been added at-right... please peruse all three... and PASS IT ON!

WE ARE THE ONES WE'RE WAITING FOR. WE MUST, EACH OF US, ACT. COMMUNICATE. AND SHUN DENIAL. (IT WON'T "SAVE" US).

-ZMD

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
by Derrick Jensen (Author), Stephanie Mcmillan (Illustrator)

HOWLL!!!

See "As the World Burns" link at-right).

-ZMD

Breakthrough....?

Haven't read through it with all-thoroughness (yet) misself, but intrigued by the concept of this book-- that the "era of environmentalism" is over-- that a New Paradigm for taking-on global eco-challenges is necessary...

See what YOU think...the link is called "BreakThrough...?" and passiton!

HOWL!

-ZMD

"Collapse, if and when it comes again, will this time be global. No longer can any individual nation collapse. World civilization will disintegrate as a whole. Competitors who evolve as peers collapse in like manner."

— Joseph A. Tainter, 1988

"I chose the name "Olduvai" because (1) it is famous for the myriad hominid fossils and stone tools discovered there, (2) I've been there, (3) its long hollow sound is eerie and ominous, and (4) it is a good metaphor for the 'Stone Age way of life.' In fact, the Olduvai way of life was (and still is) a sustainable way of life — local, tribal, and solar — and, for better or worse, our ancestors practiced it for millions of years.
No doubt that the peak and decline of Industrial Civilization, should it occur, will be due to a complex matrix of causes, such as overpopulation, the depletion of nonrenewable resources, environmental damage, pollution, soil erosion, global warming, newly emerging diseases, and resource wars."

"World Energy Production, Population Growth, and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge"
by Richard C. Duncan, Institute on Energy and Man
As published in Population and Environment, May-June 2001, v. 22, n. 5.

I'm "sorry" to bear "bad news"... our culture is so used to "debunking"-- should we say, ignoring/ denying-- "sky is falling"-talk... that we even snicker under our breath at the likes of Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio... so confident we crave to be that all will continue "as normal", that neurotic anxious reports of collapse won't materialize in OUR great technological culture, which can and shall conquer all threats...

Well, it's our very technology, our very globalization, which guarantees that This Time, Collapse is not only inevitable-- but Global.

Not talking religious "apocalypse" here-- though such stories are not inconsistent with the sort of overwhelming, total collapse our human culture faces, and has created measurable conditions to guarantee...

Many will perish along with the Collapse. Much of the techno-culture, mass-civilization, mass-transportation, mass-communication and outrageous wealth (of few) which we currently consider "normal"-- will certainly disappear, with a rapidity which will seem shocking to those currently committed to denial.

Many are likely to survive, though, as well... especially if we truly commit to deep investigation of what alternatives ARE sustainable, what sort of activities and lifestyles will minimize current planetary damage-momentum, and maximize likelihood of survival and co-existence on a radically-changed planet. We need radically-changed values of survival and society/ community. We must, I believe, return to much more local, eco-logical, self-sufficient, community-oriented (rather than nation/ international-corporate) orientation, CARING for the natural environment directly surrounding our communities, rather than exploiting and destroying such "resources", ecosystems...

Please see the newest link at-right, "Olduvai Theory"-- an obscure-sounding pair of words, but an Important Essay, not to be ignored (unless head-in-sand is your preferred position, young ostrich... understandable, but extremely unrealistic, unhelpful, and unlikely to contribute to planetary survival of those who continue to care...).

CARE!!! LOVE!!!! ACT!!!!!!!!

HOWLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!

-ZMD

Two new links from the NYTimes in the past week:

Vaclav Havel, over the weekend, had an op-ed in the Times entitled "Our Moral Footprint"-- must-read, from a great moral voice.

Yesterday's Times had an unnerving article on the unpredicted speed and intensity of ice-melt in the Arctic.

See new links at right.

HOWL!

-ZMD

The following is from Counter Punch: http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney02212007.html

I'm not adding it to the links list, because the site itself represents some anti-Israeli and other positions that aren't issues I'm aligned with them on...

But the following article, copied in entirety, is worth a read... written in February, it's proving on-the-nose re: the currently-crumbling housing/ debt situation in America, etc... Scary, important. Let's not close our eyes to these realities, lest we fall into the pits of denial, ignorance and other bad stuff, unawares.

So here's the article:

"February 21, 2007
Crashing to Earth:
The Second Great Depression

By MIKE WHITNEY

"The US economy is in danger of a recession that will prove unusually long and severe. By any measure it is in far worse shape than in 2001-02 and the unraveling of the housing bubble is clearly at hand. It seems that the continuous buoyancy of the financial markets is again deluding many people about the gravity of the economic situation."

Dr. Kurt Richebacher

"The history of all hitherto society is the history of class struggles."

Karl Marx

This week's data on the sagging real estate market leaves no doubt that the housing bubble is quickly crashing to earth and that hard times are on the way. "The slump in home prices from the end of 2005 to the end of 2006 was the biggest year over year drop since the National Association of Realtors started keeping track in 1982." (New York Times) The Commerce Dept announced that the construction of new homes fell in January by a whopping 14.3%. Prices fell in half of the nation's major markets and "existing home sales declined in 40 states". Arizona, Florida, California, and Virginia have seen precipitous drops in sales. The Commerce Department also reported that "the number of vacant homes increased by 34% in 2006 to 2.1 million at the end of the year, nearly double the long-term vacancy rate." (Marketwatch)

The bottom line is that inventories are up, sales are down, profits are eroding, and the building industry is facing a steady downturn well into the foreseeable future.

The ripple effects of the housing crash will be felt throughout the overall economy; shrinking GDP, slowing consumer spending and putting more workers in the growing unemployment lines.

Congress is now looking into the shabby lending practices that shoehorned millions of people into homes that they clearly cannot afford. But their efforts will have no affect on the loans that are already in place. $1 trillion in ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) are due to reset in 2007 which guarantees that millions of over-leveraged homeowners will default on their mortgages putting pressure on the banks and sending the economy into a tailspin. We are at the beginning of a major shake-up and there's going to be a lot more blood on the tracks before things settle down.

The banks and mortgage lenders are scrambling for creative ways to keep people in their homes but the subprime market is already teetering and foreclosures are on the rise.

There's no doubt now, that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's plan to pump zillions of dollars into the system via "low interest rates" has created the biggest monster-bubble of all time and set the stage for a deep economic retrenchment. Greenspan's inflationary policies were designed to expand the "wealth gap" and create greater economic polarization between the classes. By the time the housing bubble deflates, millions of working class Americans will be left to pay off loans that are considerably higher than the current value of their home. This will inevitably create deeper societal divisions and, very likely, a permanent underclass of mortgage-slaves.

A shrewd economist and student of history like Greenspan knew exactly what the consequences of his low interest rates would be. The trap was set to lure in unsuspecting borrowers who felt they could augment their stagnant wages by joining the housing gold rush. It was a great way to mask a deteriorating economy by expanding personal debt.

The meltdown in housing will soon be felt in the stock market which appears to be lagging the real estate market by about 6 months. Soon, reality will set in on Wall Street just as it has in the housing sector and the "loose money" that Greenspan generated with his mighty printing press will flee to foreign shores.

It looks as though this may already be happening even though the stock market is still flying high. On Friday, the government reported that net capital inflows reversed from the requisite $70 billion to AN OUTFLOW OF $11 BILLION!

The current account deficit (which includes the trade deficit) is running at roughly $800 billion per year, which means that the US must attract about $70 billion per month of foreign investment (US Treasuries or securities) to compensate for America's extravagant spending. When foreign investment falters, as it did in December, it puts downward pressure on the greenback to make up for the imbalance. Everbank's Chuck Butler put it like this:

"Not only did the buying stop in December by foreigners in December, but the outflows were huge! Domestic investors increased their buying of long-term overseas securities from $37 billion to a record $46 billion. This is a classic illustration of 'lack of funding'. So, the question I asked the desk was 'Why isn't the euro skyrocketing?'"

Why, indeed? Why would central banks hold onto their flaccid greenbacks when the foundation which keeps it propped up has been removed?

The answer is complex but, in essence, the rest of the world has loaned the US a pair of crutches to bolster the wobbly dollar while they prepare for the eventual meltdown. China and Japan are currently hold over $1.7 trillion in US currency and US-based assets and can hardly afford to have the ground cut out from below the dollar.

There are, however, limits to the "generosity of strangers" and foreign banks will undoubtedly be pressed to take more extreme measures as it becomes apparent that Team Bush plans to produce as much red ink as humanly possible.

December's figures indicate that foreign investment is drying up and the world is no longer eager to purchase America's lavish debt. The only thing the Federal Reserve can do is raise interest rates to attract foreign capital or let the dollar fall in value. The problem, of course, is that if the Fed raises rates, the real estate market will collapse even faster which will strangle consumer spending and shrivel GDP. In other words, we are at the brink of two separate but related crises; an economic crisis and a currency crisis. That means that the unsuspecting American people are likely to be ground between the two mill-wheels of hyperinflation and shrinking growth.

In real terms, the economy is already in recession. The growth numbers are regularly massaged by the Commerce Department to put a smiley face on an underperforming economy. Industrial output continues to flag (In January it was down by another .5%) while millions good paying factory jobs are being air-mailed to China where labor is a mere fraction of the cost in the USA. Also, automobile inventories are up while factory production is in freefall.

In addition, new jobless claims soared to 357,000 in the week ending February 10. 44,000 more desperate workers have been given their pink slips so they can join the huddled masses in Bush's Weimar Dystopia.

December's net capital inflows are a grim snapshot of the looming disaster ahead. As the housing bubble loses steam, maxxed-out American consumers will face increasing job losses and mounting debt. At the same time, foreign investment will move to more promising markets in Asia and Europe causing a steep rise in interest rates. This is bound to be a stunning blow to the banks which are low on reserves ($44 billion) but have generated $4.5 trillion in shaky mortgage debt in the last 6 years.

It's all bad news. The global liquidity bubble is limping towards the reef and when it hits it'll send shock-waves through the global economic system.

Is it any wonder why the foreign central banks are so skittish about dumping the dollar? No one really relishes the idea of a quick slide into a global recession followed by years of agonizing recovery.

Maybe that's why Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson has reassembled the Plunge Protection Team and installed a hotline to his Chinese counterpart so he can quickly respond to sudden gyrations in the stock market or a freefalling greenback; two of the calamities he could be facing in the very near future.

Greenspan successfully piloted the nation into virtual insolvency. In fact, the parallels between our present situation and the period preceding the Great Depression are striking. Just as massive debt was accumulating in the market from the purchase of stocks "on margin", so too, mortgage debt between 2000 and 2006 soared from $4.8 trillion to $9.5 trillion. In both cases the "wealth effect" spawned a spending spree which looked like growth but was really the steady, insidious expansion of debt which generated economic activity. In both periods wages were either flat or declining and the gap between rich and working class was growing more extreme by the year. As Paul Alexander Gusmorino said in his article, "Main Causes of the Great Depression":

"Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade".

The same factors are at work today except that the speculation is in real estate rather than stocks. Just as in the 1920's the equity bubble was not created by wages keeping pace with productivity (the healthy formula for growth) but by the expansion of personal debt. Also, one could buy stocks without the money to purchase them, just as one can buy a $600,000 or $700,000 house today with zero-down and no monthly payment on the principle for years to come. The current account deficit ($800 billion) could also weigh heavily in any economic shake-up that may be forthcoming. Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster made this shocking calculation about America's out-of-control trade deficit:

"US debt was up 10.1% to $4.085 trillion and accounts for 58.8% of all the credit issued globally last year. That means the US expanded credit at a much faster rate than the economy grew. This was borrowing to maintain a higher standard of living and attempt to pay for it tomorrow."

Think about that; the US sucked up nearly 60% of ALL GLOBAL CREDIT in one year alone. That is truly astonishing.

There are many similarities between the pre-Depression era and our own. Paul Alexander Gusmorino says:

"The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade....The excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the misdistribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize.

"(The income disparity) between the rich and the middle class grew throughout the 1920's. While the disposable income per capita rose 9% from 1920 to 1929, those with income within the top 1% enjoyed a stupendous 75% increase in per capita disposable incomeA major reason for this large and growing gap between the rich and the working-class people was the increased manufacturing output throughout this period. From 1923-1929 the average output per worker increased 32% in manufacturing8. During that same period of time average wages for manufacturing jobs increased only 8% (This ultimately causes a decrease in demand and leads to growth in credit spending)

The federal government also contributed to the growing gap between the rich and middle-class. Calvin Coolidge's (pro business) administration passed the Revenue Act of 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically(At the same time) the Supreme Court ruled minimum-wage legislation unconstitutional.

The bottom three quarters of the population had an aggregate income of less than 45% of the combined national income; while the top 25% of the population took in more than 55% of the national income...Between 1925 and 1929 the total credit more than doubled from $1.38 billion to around $3 billion". (Just like now, the growing wage gap has spawned massive speculative bubbles as well as a steady up-tick in credit spending. Wage stagnation forces workers to seek other opportunities for getting ahead. When wages fail to keep pace with productivity then demand naturally decreases and business begins to flag. The only way to spur more buying is by easing interest rates or expanding personal credit, and that is when equity bubbles begin to appear. That's what happened to the stock market before 1929 as well as to the real estate market in 2007. The availability of credit has kept the housing market afloat but, ultimately, the result will be the same.

On Monday October 21, 1929, the over-valued stock market began its downward plunge. It managed a brief mid-week comeback, but 7 days later on Black Tuesday it plummeted again; 16 million shares were dumped and there were no buyers.

The game was over.

Confidence evaporated overnight. People stopped buying on credit, the bubble-economy collapsed, and the mighty locomotive for growth, the American consumer, hobbled into the Great Depression. Tariffs were thrown up, foreigners stopped buying American goods; banks closed, business went bust, and unemployment skyrocketed. Tens years later the country was still reeling from the implosion.

Now, 77 years later, Greenspan has led us sheep-like to the same precipice. The economic dilemma we're facing could have been avoided if the expansion of personal credit had been curtailed by prudent monetary policy at the Federal Reserve and if wealth was more evenly distributed as it was in the '60s and '70s. But that's not the case; so we're headed for hard times.

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at: fergiewhitney@msn.com"

What to do about your ecological footprint...?

What's the most-responsible response to 11th Hour, An Inconvenient Truth, all the other evidence of the planetary destruction humans are wreaking?

One possible answer: self-sufficiency.

Small-farming, organic, permaculture, small-community...

See new link, "Self-Sufficiency Lifestyle"-- and a few other new, related links-- and consider a shift in such direction.

Howlll!!!

-ZMD

..."for postmodernists, it is simply too late to oppose the momentum of industrial society."

-Henry Kariel

*see link "Postmodern Crisis" at-right.

Howl!

-ZMD

Even if we all "know this already"-- we all must see Leonardo DiCaprio's movie-- you might call it the follow-up to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".

See it at a theater near you-- invite several you know along!

Howl!!

-ZMD

-And visit Leonardo's eco-site, in link-list at-right... howl.

"The longing for a primitive mode of existence is no mere fantasy or sentimental whim; it is consonant with fundamental human needs, the fulfillment of which (although in different form) is precondition for our survival."

-Stanley Diamond, "In Search of the Primitive"
(see link in list at right).

Howwwl!!

Cut 'n paste the following link:

http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/newpatriotism?rk=RdSYIt113tfZW

into a new window-- or click on new "Environmental Defense" link at-right.

Howl!

-ZMD

Declaration of a Global Ethic

We are interdependent.
Each of us depends on the well being of the whole, and so we have respect for thecommunity of living beings, for people, animals, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, the air, water and soil. We take individualresponsibility for all we do.
All our decisions, actions, and failures to act have consequences.
We must treat others as we wish others to treat us.
We make a commitment to respect life and dignity, individuality and diversity, so that every person is treated humanely, without exception.
We must have patience and acceptance. We must be able to forgive, learning from the past but never allowing ourselves to be enslaved by memories of hate. Opening our hearts to one another, we must sink our narrow differences for the cause of world community, practising a culture of solidarity and relatedness.
We consider humankind a family.
We must strive to be kind and generous.
We must not live for ourselves alone, but should also serve others, never forgetting the children, the aged, the poor, the suffering, the disabled, the refugees and the lonely. No person should ever be considered or treated as a second class
citizen, or be exploited in any way whatsoever.
There should be equal partnership between men and women.
We must not commit any kind of sexual immorality.
We must put behind us all forms of domination or abuse.
We commit ourselves to a culture of non-violence, respect, justice, and peace.
We shall not oppress, injure, torture, or kill other human beings, forsaking violence as a means of settling differences.
We must strive for a just social and economic order, in which everyone has an equal chance to reach full potential as a human being.
We must speak and act truthfully and with compassion, dealing fairly with all, and avoiding prejudice and hatred.
We must not steal.
We must move beyond the dominance of greed for power, prestige, money, and consumption to make a just and peaceful world.
Earth cannot be changed for the better unless the consciousness of individuals is changed first.
We pledge to increase our awareness by disciplining our minds, by meditation, by prayer, or by positive thinking.
Without risk and a readiness to sacrifice there can be no fundamental change in our situation.
Therefore we commit ourselves to this global ethic, to understanding one another, and to socially beneficial, peace-fostering, and nature-friendly ways of life.
We invite all people, whether religious or not, to do the same.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes by Rollo May

"Hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is."

"If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself."

"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."

"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."

"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."

"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."

"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."

"What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience."

Not usual fare for this site, but of aligned interest. See link "Maximum Longevity, Health".

Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD

Read what J. Krishnamurti (no relation to hare krishnas) has to say about Contradiction and The Awakening of Intelligence.

New linx at-right.

Read them, grow wise, and pass this 'blog on to at least 5 others.

Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD

"I had a mild epiphany the other day: it’s not President Bush who’s living in a fantasy world, it’s most of his critics who are. I’m no apologist for Bush – I neither like nor dislike him. He’s no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning."

The above begins an interesting essay-- blunt, direct title:

"The End of Civilization"

Link at-right entitled "The End".

Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD

"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years...
"What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical 'mechanisms.' There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically 'normal' forms of alienation. The 'normally' alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the 'formal' majority as bad or mad."

--R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

See new "R.D. Laing" link on the list... or prepare to be far too square for planetary survival.

Howl!

-ZMD

"I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition."

-Bill Mollison, "Father of Permaculture"

Please see new "Permaculture Mollison" link at-right for the stimulating interview from-which the above quote came.

Required Reading for Planetary Survival.

Howl.

-ZMD

How simple could you MAKE your lifestyle?

How much ambition would you be willing to SACRIFICE?

How self-sufficient are you WILLING to be?

Are YOU willing to DENY the corporatocracy your PARTICIPATION? To discontinue buying products made cheaply overseas by our slaves? To discontinue, as much as POSSIBLE (over time, ENTIRELY), using fossil fuels, and products made using fossil fuels (such as plastics, nonrenewable polluting electricity and other energy, crops grown by gargantuan agribusiness using fossil fuels as a key ingredient in fertilizers AND pesticides, even asphalt-- that is, roads-- are made from fossil-fuel bases)...?

YOUR every action is political. Inaction of those who deny their culture's GENOCIDAL tendencies is a central component of the possibility of GENOCIDE. But there is a worse, more total threat than GENOCIDE.

ECOCIDE.

OUR combined actions are killing the planet-- starting with species, ecosystems, forests/ other "resources"-- likely ending with our own species; at the very least, our vaunted CIVILIZATION will certainly collapse. It ought to, it's what's doing all the harm!

OUR most potent ACTIONS involve becoming LOCAL, becoming INDEPENDENT of government, money, corporations in every arena of life possible.

It's POSSIBLE. EVERY other life form does it.

Our Species did it for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years (depending on the line you draw delineating "our species"). Many homo sapiens still do.

We did it, LIFE ON EARTH did it, for millions of years without threatening the existence of life on the planet.

CIVILIZATION is only a handful of thousands of years old-- and is on the verge of destroying planetary ecosystems.

It must, and will, collapse.

We-- EACH OF US-- YOU!-- must work to save as many species, ecosystems, life-support-systems (provided by the planet, free of charge-- though LOADED with built-in karma if we imbalance or destroy them) as possible...

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, as many of us as possible MUST return to local self-sufficiency, must DENY governments and corporations our support-- by no longer supporting them with our money, our ambitions, our priorities, our CONSUMPTION.

We MUST NOT CONSUME WHAT THEY "PRODUCE".

IT IS PRODUCED AT THE EXPENSE OF PLANETARY LIFE.

Love and Ahimsa,

-ZMoonDog

(howl.)

Heya-

The 1st nine links on the list at-right are new-- from "Ecological Collapse" to "Erich Fromm"-- except the John Zerzan/ Derrick Jensen interview, which should be read as well if you haven't already.

All are must-reads.

Never mind the news-- READ THESE 'BLOG LINKS!!

And PASSITON!

This stuff is more important than anything else you could use to consume your time-- besides true QT w/ your closest loved-ones, and maybe growing your own veggies.

It's long-past time for Denial and "Self-Interest" (at the expense of the planet's ecosystems-- ie our ability to survive) to dissolve, and for Each of Us to take Revolutionary Action with our own choices, priorities, lifestyle, consumption-- and What We Do about the earth-destroying problems which Our Culture Is Causing. Let go of denial. Let's get to work.

We are The Ones.

HOWL!!!

-ZMD

Derrick Jensen interviews John Zerzan.

Howl!!!

-ZMD

The dangers of "hip Green lite"-- "recycle, fill your tires, send 5 postcards to your congressperson"-- the trend of "going Green".

We need more than this. The planet does.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004343.html

Howl.

-ZMD

ZMoonDog has updated!

In 2005-6, over 100 links were compiled on this 'blogsite...

'twas getting a bit crowded, if also valuable and useful...

Since valuable and useful, you can STILL, ALWAYS update your self-edumacation process by clicking on the final link in this newfangled, 2007 version-- the link "ZMD Links Archive 2005-6".

As for the linx populating this newest/shiny ZMD '07: they feature two humans all should know/ read about, learn from, emulate, consider...

Scott Nearing, radical liver of The Good Life, 100 years long...

and Derrick Jensen, whose thriller endgame (intentionally uncapitalized title) is a must-read for the doom generation... you MUST read it! (or at least the linx at-right...).

Howl!

-ZMD

A new entry:

Exerpt's from the WWI-era essay by Scott Nearing, "The Great Madness".

Some things don't change.

Howl!

-ZMD

http://www.bigeye.com/madness.htm