Nutrition experts alarmed by nonprofit downplaying role of junk food in obesity
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Using the metaphor of metamorphosis, Carbon Dharma calls for our occupation of the Earth as Butterflies, to undo the damage done by the human species in its present Caterpillar stage of existence.
...In biology, there’s a phenomenon called parallel evolution. Two different species found on two different continents from two distant branches of the evolutionary tree evolve similar characteristics to survive and thrive.
...It was just after I gave a talk at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) in Pasadena, California, in November 2008 that my dear friend, Gani, urged me to write this book.
...The Caterpillar wriggles out and proceeds to eat the nutritious shell of the egg that its mother had laid on the underside of the leaf.
...The global rate of extinctions, “already very large,” is “ramping up” . . . with climate change helping bring about that “acceleration,” scientist James White of the University of Colorado cautions in this month’s “This is not Cool” Yale Climate Connections video....
Whether we behave like Caterpillars or whether we behave like Butterflies depends on the stories that we have bought into, which then rule our actions.
...Jim Hansen is not impressed with Obama's climate plan...
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It is always the Caterpillar that has eaten its fill that is ready for the final Metamorphosis into a Butterfly.
...Reconnecting humans back to Nature is about reconnecting humans back to reality by identifying and overturning all the absurd notions that underlie our current civilization.
...Imagine the world that we want to live in. Then act to make that world a reality.
...A candid speech to the rich...
The promise of Karma is that no act is ever ignored by the universe. Every act matters, no matter how insignificant we may regard them to be as we perform them.
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