"The role of unbridled violence in evolution has been greatly overestimated. When we see animals like elephant seals fighting with each other—as we do in lots of nature documentaries—we’re really seeing only a very small sliver of time. Much more of the time they’re accommodating...
What are your views on India's role and contribution at the Copenhagen conference?
India has a unique global role straddling the industrialized nations and the developing world and could potentially be the bridge builder between these two groups at Copenhagen.
There's a genetic relationship between all Indians. The "fact'' that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth,…...
Dairy consumption is a sleeper item in the whole diet issue and hasn't received much attention in environmental circles. Of the 1.3 billion heads of cattle worldwide, 320 million are in India where cows are mostly allowed to live out their natural lives and beef...
Climate change is not a problem because of temperature increases, or weather changes or melting sea ice in the Arctic. It is a problem because it impacts Life.
...Day by day, Americans have been getting fatter and sicker. This works out great for the food industry as the demand for their products increases with American appetites. It works out equally great for the Pharmaceutical industry as sicker Americans pop more pills daily. Unfortunately,...
A Civilizational Tipping Point
http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch01_ss5.htm
Lester R. Brown
...On the Dutch Postcode Lottery challenge website, Sir Richard Branson states in a video that "if we are not going consume less, we should consume differently." While, at first glance, this may appear to be an excuse to continue his flamboyant,...
This is surely the most exciting time to be alive, for this generation will be viewed in history as either the Greatest Generation that ever existed on earth for having taken steps to overcome all these crises or it will be vilified as the Worst...
Peace, Ethics, Occams Razor and India’s Gift of Ahimsa.
by Philip Wollen