What Happens When They Really Tell The Truth…
July 10, 2009
What Happens When They Really Tell The Truth…
Too brilliant for words!
What Is Causing The Greatest Damage When It Comes To Climate Change?
July 8, 2009
Q: What is causing the greatest damage when it comes to climate change?
A: Wealthy Nations? or Developing Nations?
A: Certain Regions? or Certain Countries?
A: Few Organizations? or Many People?
A: The Producers? or The Consumers?
A: City Expansion? or Forest Depletion?
A: Population Explosion? or Meat Consumption?
A: Existing Incumbents? or Non-Existing Innovators?
A: Lack Of Social Consciousness? or Abundance Of Misguided Consciousness?
A: Absence Of Real Checks And Measures? or Presence Of Deceitful Checks And Measures?
A: Our Way Of Life? or Not Knowing How To Live?
A: (What else do you think?)
Here are some extracts from an article I read on Reuters today that suggest we might want to pay more attention to the world’s wealthiest people. What do you think?
NEW CLIMATE STRATEGY: TRACK THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST
“To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Since about half the planet’s climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries — including fast-growing economies China and India — are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.”
“The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.”
“Currently, the world average for individual annual carbon emissions is about 5 tons; each European produces 10 tons and each American produces 20 tons.”
“Rich people’s lives tend to give off more greenhouse gases because they drive more fossil-fueled vehicles, travel frequently by air and live in big houses that take more fuel to heat and cool.”
“As countries develop — India, China, Brazil and others — over time, they’ll have more and more of these (wealthy) individuals and they’ll have a higher share of carbon reductions to do in the future,” he said.”
What do you think needs to be done?
MASTERY by Stewart Emery
July 2, 2009
MASTERY by Stewart Emery
Mastery in our careers (and in our lives!) requires that we constantly produce results beyond and out of the ordinary. Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits. For most people, it starts with technical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment to that excellence. If you’re willing to commit yourself to excellence, to surround yourself with things that represent this excellence, your life will change.
It’s remarkable how much mediocrity we live with, surrounding ourselves with daily reminders that average is somehow acceptable. In fact, our world suffers from terminal normality. Take a moment to assess all the things around you that promote your being “average.” These are the things that prevent you from going beyond the limits that you’ve arbitrarily set for yourself.
The first step to mastery is the removal of everything in your environment that represents mediocrity, and one way to attain that objective is to surround yourself with people who ask more of you than you would ordinarily give of yourself. Didn’t your parents and some of your best teachers and coaches do exactly that?
Another step on the path to mastery is the removal of resentment toward the masters. Develop compassion for yourself so that you can be in the presence of a master and grow from the experience. Rather than comparing yourself to (and resenting) people who have mastery, remain open and receptive. Let the experience be like the planting of a seed within you that, with nourishment, will grow into your own individual mastery.
You see, we’re all ordinary. But rather than condemning himself for his “ordinariness,” a master will embrace that ordinariness as a foundation for building the extraordinary. Rather than relying on his ordinariness as an excuse for inactivity, he’ll use it instead as a vehicle for correcting himself. It’s necessary to be able to correct yourself without invalidating or condemning yourself to use the results of the correction process to improve upon other aspects of your life.
Correction is essential to power and mastery.
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