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The wolves are in trouble - Care to Help?

i find it outlandish to call a sacred animal “game”… and i hope and trust that any human who subscribes to this language and the underlying mentality, will be subject to being hunted and / or otherwise considered as dispensable. Every organism has its own right to existence and demanding that these animals live in a small designated area is bad enough (similar to the injustice of quarantining the native indians who actually knew how to live in balance with the land) , mass slaughter is unacceptable.

apparently US officials say that stabilizing CO2 emissions (around 535ppm) sufficiently to prevent more than a 2 degree temperature increase could lead to a global recession: “no world leader will pursue a strategy that would lead to economic recession.”

I wonder if that is really true? i wonder if the people of this world will see that if we want the concept of economic prosperity to continue to exist, we are rather dependent on an environment that is supportive of life… we are required to find better balance with our environment. It is not an option. It is not an economic trade off. Either we decide to find a gentle balance or we will face strife and natural disasters and repercussions stemming from over consumption and over combustion… It is simple and obvious.

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070430/full/070430-11.html

Update:
You can listen to the friendly Idaho Governor here at Defenders

From Idaho Fish and Game website :

When feasible and legal, the state would propose hunting wolves to provide opportunity for harvest of wolves, as well as to reduce problems with livestock and to maintain a balance between wolves and their prey.

Please allow me to draw your attention to the phrase “harvest of wolves”…

From The Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife ( supported by King’s big business in Killing ) :

SFW continues to use politics as a tool to protect our hunting and fishing heritage in Idaho. With full-time staff in place Idaho SFW members will have their united voices shaping the policies and legislation used to manage our treasured wildlife resource.

From In Defense of Animals :
“the native species conservationists worked so hard to reintroduce and protect will likely be stalked and killed soon by an even more aggressive predator — man.”

So basically as i see it, the human predators at the Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, are dancing on thin ice above hypocritical waters… (if they aren’t already swimming proudly)… They admit (boldly and proudly) that they are “using politics”… They portray that they are supported by big business (Kings) who OF COURSE stands to gain plenty from permission to kill these precious native species.

Are we really so civilized? Do we have no capacity to create peaceful pathways of co-existence? Do you personally respect life? Does that wolf have less right to exist than you? Is it threatening your ability to survive?

What are the reasons to destroy these animals? To take their last breath from a long distance without any fair fight? Is it wise to encourage men to use their intelligence to kill? When will we decide that the power rush is just not worth it? When?

As best as i can gather from my distant investigation, The primary motivating factors for killing all but 100 wolves in Idaho are as follows:
1. Sport (I suppose people have the right to entertain themselves as they wish and suffer the karmic consequences duly)
2. Protecting Human Lives (Have there been any injuries or deaths?)
3. Protecting livestock and other domesticated animals (ranchers will be reimbursed for wolf-related deaths)
4. Economic profit (from sport, and “saved” livestock)

So what are the statistics? How many livestock have been killed? How many humans have been attacked? Who are the real “invaders”?

Crazy world we live in!

White man takes land from nature, driving the people away who actually know how to coexist and communicate with and respect the creatures of the land. Then we want to protect our “live stock” so we can kill them ourselves…

And yes, we call ourselves civilized.

:-D

Please consider to take action now…

much info out there:
http://www.fws.gov/mountain%2Dprairie/species/mammals/wolf/annualrpt05/
http://www.fws.gov/news/NewsReleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=6F1726CD-952D-6E23-9A79F5D44DBC2637
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/idaho_governor_declares_wolf_public_enemy_number_one/C41/L41/
http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Politics.php?id=1869

Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs from PhysOrg.com
Imagine T-shirts that light up, or a beach umbrella that collects solar energy to run a portable TV. How about really cheap solar collectors for the roof? All this and more could come from cutting-edge research at Cornell that demonstrates a new type of organic semiconductor device which shows electroluminescence and acts as a photovoltaic cell.

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This is a 3d image of a flower of life inspired structure:

Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, you are a cancer of this planet, and we are the cure.
Agent_Smith_human_disease

In the matrix these words are from an agent of an inhumane population of machines who could care less about the physical appearance of the planet earth… a population of bloodless, compassionless, cluelessly clever machines that had managed to create a virtual world that “tricked” us all into feeding their electrical supply with our neuronal impulses. A curiously sustainable system i may add.

Perhaps you care to take a look over here:

The addition of 3.2 million Americans has a greater resource impact upon the Earth than all of the millions of people added last year in India and Africa combined.

WOW! what to do?????

Other relevant links:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
Especially these 2 from the “Watch a Preview” link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/media/3108_1_ref.mov
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/media/3108_2_ref.mov
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/media/alteredearth.swf?mii=1
(please download/link/share and show your friends!)

What do you think it’s going to take for more of us to grasp the
seriousness of our situation? How would you describe those conditions
that are going to provoke us to really change?

I think that all conditions are provoking us to really change. (more…)

Listening to :
http://www.investorideas.com/Companies/RenewableEnergy/Audio/default.asp

DESI : http://www.defgllc.com/DESI.php

Subsidies?? what is the government doing? how are subsidies impacting job creation?

?Wind and hydro are the most economic?
?Solar and Fuel cels, dependent on subsidy and future technology development?

immediate impact:?:
demand response
energy efficiency, portability of fuel cels

wind is the strongest player… nanotech is an unknown futuristic enigma…

LED lighting taking over!

I really get the feeling that we need to wear our sharp pointy skeptic noses… everything eco, bio, green, soft and fuzzy isn’t always backed by sound environmental ethics… take bio-diesel fuel for example.

from a cute little guardian article recommended by peter:

“Between 1985 and 2000,” it [was] found: “the development of oil-palm plantations was responsible for an estimated 87 per cent of deforestation in Malaysia”. In Sumatra and Borneo, some 4 million hectares of forest have been converted to palm farms. Now a further 6 million hectares are scheduled for clearance in Malaysia, and 16.5 million in Indonesia.[…][The british government:]Knowing that the creation of this [bio diesel]market will lead to a massive surge in imports of palm oil, knowing that there is nothing meaningful it can do to prevent them, and knowing that they will accelerate rather than ameliorate climate change, the government has decided to go ahead anyway.

perhaps the worst part is the role of govenments with money blinding their insight and leading to their destructive decisions.

As BP is saying:
Its time to go on a low Carbon diet.

i found out about the pelamis over at greenzones