ArchDruidReport John Michael Greer's NTE Hypocrisy and Silencing of Critics

ArchDruidReport John Michael Greer's Hypocrisy and Paranoid Silencing of Critics

Most activists dilute their message to get a big fan club, so they focus on recruiting Milgram's 92%, game theory's conditional co-operators and free riders. I an an issue specific unconditional co-operator, and I search for other eight percenter: issue specific unconditional co-operators. I don't care if your name is Anders Breivik, or Tom Laaman, if you ideologically are left wing, right wing, nazi wing, commie wing, if you are capable of making an issue specific unconditional co-ooperator agreement, you are worth talking to, and worth negotiating with. In the absence of sincere and active listening and brutal honesty discussion, any beliefs about agreement or disagreement are self-delusional bullshit.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 15 May 2013

John Michael Greer blogs at The Archdruid Report. where he blogs about "Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society." He is also the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America and the author of more than twenty books on a wide range of subjects, including The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, The Ecotechnic Future: Exploring a Post-Peak World, and The Wealth of Nature: Economics As If Survival Mattered.

A few days ago he wrote a post The Pleasures of Extinction; wherein he lambastes people who believe that climate change has embarked on such a runaway feedback loop, that it is going to result in the near term extinction (NTE) of human life on planet earth.

As far as I am aware the person who coined the term 'near term extinction' with the acronym of NTE is Dr. Guy McPherson. His first post about it, I can find was posted to Zero Hedge: Three paths to near term extinction. If you do a google search on the term "near term extinction, nte" the top hit is Dr. McPherson's blog: Nature Bats Last, where his detailed post explaining the evidence for his argument of near term extinction is: Climate Change Summary and Update.

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

in 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

Mike Dash | Smithsonian.com | January 29, 2013 | |

That was in 1936, and there were only four Lykovs then—Karp; his wife, Akulina; a son named Savin, 9 years old, and Natalia, a daughter who was only 2. Taking their possessions and some seeds, they had retreated ever deeper into the taiga, building themselves a succession of crude dwelling places, until at last they had fetched up in this desolate spot. Two more children had been born in the wild—Dmitry in 1940 and Agafia in 1943—and neither of the youngest Lykov children had ever seen a human being who was not a member of their family. All that Agafia and Dmitry knew of the outside world they learned entirely from their parents' stories. The family's principal entertainment, the Russian journalist Vasily Peskov noted, "was for everyone to recount their dreams."

The Lykov children knew there were places called cities where humans lived crammed together in tall buildings. They had heard there were countries other than Russia. But such concepts were no more than abstractions to them.

The Lykovs had carried a crude spinning wheel and, incredibly, the components of a loom into the taiga with them—moving these from place to place as they gradually went further into the wilderness must have required many long and arduous journeys—but they had no technology for replacing metal. A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. Since these could not be placed in a fire, it became far harder to cook. By the time the Lykovs were discovered, their staple diet was potato patties mixed with ground rye and hemp seeds.

In some respects, Peskov makes clear, the taiga did offer some abundance: "Beside the dwelling ran a clear, cold stream. Stands of larch, spruce, pine and birch yielded all that anyone could take.... Bilberries and raspberries were close to hand, firewood as well, and pine nuts fell right on the roof."

Yet the Lykovs lived permanently on the edge of famine. It was not until the late 1950s, when Dmitry reached manhood, that they first trapped animals for their meat and skins. Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. Dmitry built up astonishing endurance, and could hunt barefoot in winter, sometimes returning to the hut after several days, having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost, a young elk across his shoulders.

DECC & Min of Climate Change - Primitive Feminist's MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence

Primitive Feminist's MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence with DECC: Dept Energy & Climate Change & Minister of State for Climate Change: Rt. Hon. Gregory Barker



Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 09 May 2013

I have been sending the MILINT Earth Day documentation to various Politicians and Military Leaders. So far to USA, Russia and currently busy with UK. I sent copies of the letter to Prime Minister Cameron and General David Richards; to all UK Politicians, including EU MP's. I received a response from Gregory Barker, MP for Bexhille and Battle, who is also Minister of State for Climate Change in the DECC: Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Excerpt from our Correspondence:

I trust Dr. McPherson’s sincerity and honesty on the issue of climate science, to the point of saying, that if he is wrong, MI5/MI6/MOD are welcome to put a bullet through my brain.

Do you trust your climate scientists sincerity and honesty to the point of saying that if they are wrong, MI5/MI6/MODI can put a bullet through your brain?

Do you think there are any politicians in the UK who trust their climate scientists sincerity and honesty to the point of saying that if the scientists are wrong, MI5/MI6/MOD can put a bullet through the politicians brains?

So, if I am wrong, we turn off the lights, I get my head blown off, we avoid ecological collapse, and our children have a reasonable happy future in a de-industrialized low/no tech, agrarian future.

If you are wrong, we keep on the lights for a bit longer, you get your head blown off, and we embark on near term extinction, where you send your children and the entire planet and their children into a climate furnace involving ecological collapse and extinction for humanity and millions of species.

Which do you prefer?

[..] PS: Pentagon make Legal Preparations for MILINT Necessity of Coup d'etat to implement Sustainable Security Policies; and protect Constitution from Eco-Illiterate Voters and Politicians

UKIP Climate Change Skeptic MEP: Roger Helmer - Primitive Feminists MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence

Primitive Feminist's MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence with UKIP Climate Change Skeptic MEP: Roger Helmer



Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 07 May 2013

I have been sending the MILINT Earth Day documentation to various Politicians and Military Leaders. So far to USA, Russia and currently busy with UK. I sent copies of the letter to Prime Minister Cameron and General David Richards; to all UK Politicians, including EU MP's. I received a response from former Conservative, and currently UKIP well known Climate Change Skeptic: Roger Helmer (blog)(MEP spends £9,000 on climate sceptic poster campaign. Roger Helmer uses taxpayers' money to promote his climate sceptic beliefs on giant billboards. Guardian, 08/12/2010).

Excerpt from our Correspondence:

2. Realistic view of the likely impact of my actions.

There are a huge multitude of different possibilities for the likely impact of my actions, ranging from:

(A) Arrest and Firing Squad Execution for Treason to Patriarchal Eurocentric Industrial Civilization: ‘advocating the overthrow of dozens of duhmockeries’: If I get a few ‘pressure cooker’ co-conspirators, maybe we can even arrange a fucking Military Necessity Treason Trial, for opposing Patriarchal Western Industrial Civilization’s obsessive intention to exterminate the planet. Personally I’d plead to Military Necessity (Rendulic Rule) and wouldn’t have a problem with facing a firing squad; for my ‘fuck you’ refusal to endorse Patriarchal Western Industrial Civilization’s obsessive intention to exterminate the planet. I doubt gutless political coward whores like you would be making your voice heard, or filing legal applications, demanding my right to a free and fair treason trial, like I did for Breivik, McVeigh and Bin Laden. LOL…….. Maybe that should be the new black ops covert job for a Feminist CIA and MI6???? Teach thousands of Primitivist Breivik’s; to detonate ‘pressure cookers’ to oppose Patriarchal Western Industrial Civilization’s obsessive intention to exterminate the planet!

(B) Lighting a Sustainable Security Fire under the World’s Armed Services (Gen. Dempsey) to implement Sustainable Security Constitutions; If Eco-Illiterate Voters fail to act for Sustainable Security future, by 22 April 2014

What are the Likely Impacts of Sustainable Security Constitutions?:

(A) The end of Corporate Government by Corporations, for Corporations
(B) The Recognition that Democracy is unsustainable and means FUCK ALL in the absence of Sustainable Security Licensed Voters
(C) End of Military Men and women being used as Corporate Resource Thieves Cannon Fodder
(D) Massive, Massive reduction in Political Corruption
(E) Real Peace Treaties
(F) Citizens wake the fuck up about their War is Peace Whore Duhmockery Politicians
(G) Dozens of other sustainable security consequences: Relocalization; Decentralization (Nullification and Secession); De-Industrialization: End of the National Grid; Primitivization
(H) Last but by no means least: the end of Roger Helmer’s Career as a Political Parasite

FBI Miami - Primitive Feminist's MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence

Primitive Feminist's MILINT Earth Day Coup d'etat Correspondence with FBI Miami

Subject: RE: JCS Dempsey & WH Obama: MILINT Necessity of Coup d'etat to implement Sustainable Security Policies: "How can the FBI help you? FBI Miami"

Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 05 May 2013

I have been sending the MILINT Earth Day documentation to various Politicians and Military Leaders. So far to USA, Russia and currently busy with UK. I sent copies of the letter to Prime Minister Cameron and General David Richards; to all UK Politicians, including EU MP's. I received a response from FBI Miami: asking "How can the FBI help you? FBI Miami"

Excerpt from our Correspondence:

At the moment I can think of two options, for the FBI to help me, to help US military leaders raise public awareness about Sustainable Security issues.

First an analogy: We are in a bus, of majority drunk and blind people, who thanks to ‘one man one vote’ policies, have nominated, and continue to nominate their own blind/drunk people to drive the bus. The bus is heading for a cliff, fast. We need a few buckets of icewater to (a) sober up the drunks, and (b) confuse the blind to think their blind bus driver crashed into an iceberg or something.

FBI Complaint: Templeton's 40 year discrimination against Primitivist religions; and Fraud & Corruption of 2013 Prize to Tutu.

FBI Complaint: Fraud & Patriarchal Discrimination of Templeton Foundation, Tutu, et al

Charges of Fraud, Corruption and Discrimination against (a) Templeton Foundation President & Chairman: Dr. John M Templeton Jnr & VP’s, (b) 2013 Nominator: Archbishop Tutu’s biographer: Steven Gish; (c) 2013 Templeton Prize Winner: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and (d) Templeton Prize Judges, Templeton Trustees and Templeton Board of Advisors.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 27 April 2013

Complaint to FBI: Pennsylvania & UK National Fraud Intelligence Bureau: Subject: FBI- Pennsylvania & UK Nat Fraud Intel Bureau: Fraud & Discrimination Complaint; CC: Prince Phillip c/o UKIP N. Farage (PDF)

FRAUD, CORRUPTION AND DISCRIMINATON COMPLAINT:

Charges of Fraud, Corruption and Discrimination against (a) Templeton Foundation President & Chairman: Dr. John M Templeton Jnr & VP’s, (b) 2013 Nominator: Archbishop Tutu’s biographer: Steven Gish; (c) 2013 Templeton Prize Winner: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and (d) Templeton Prize Judges, Templeton Trustees and Templeton Board of Advisors.

Fraud: ‘Templeton Prize’ is a fraudulent misrepresentation. Templeton Prize Chairman, Judges, Trustees & Advisors refuse to amend ‘Templeton Prize’ to ‘Templeton Prize for Taker – Patriarchal AnthroCorpocentric – Spirituality’; to accurately reflect the Patriarchal AnthroCorpocentric forms of spirituality Templeton endorses & rewards.

Discrimination: Templeton Prize practices Gender and Ideological Discrimination against Ecocentric non-Patriarchal, Primitivist religions. All of the recipients for the Templeton Prize, for the past 40 years have been to individuals who are members of, or who endorse, Patriarchal AnthroCorpocentric religions/spirituality. (Shall be withdrawn if Templeton Prize amend their name to accurately reflect the Patriarchal AnthroCorpocentric forms of spirituality Templeton endorses & rewards.)

Fraud, Corruption & Discrimination: The nomination of the 2013 Templeton Prize was corrupt and fraudulent. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was nominated for the prize by his own biographer, who censored information from the Judges about Tutu’s involvement in, and endorsement of, South Africa’s TRC Fraud, and discrimination against non-patriarchal Ecocentric Primitivist cultures. Tutu’s biographer refused to withdraw the nomination. Templeton Prize Judges also refused to withdraw the award, endorsing Tutu’s TRC Fraud and discrimination against Ecocentric, non-Patriarchal, Primitivist Leaver cultures.

Please find attached PDF’s:

· Templeton Foundation: Fraud, Corruption and Discrimination Complaint: Charges of Fraud, Corruption and Discrimination against (a) Templeton Foundation President & Chairman: Dr. John M Templeton Jnr & VP’s, (b) 2013 Nominator: Archbishop Tutu’s biographer: Steven Gish; (c) 2013 Templeton Prize Winner: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and (d) Templeton Prize Judges, Templeton Trustees and Templeton Board of Advisors. (PDF)
· Affidavit of Lara Johnstone in support of Complaint to FBI: Pennsylvania: Special Agent in Charge: Edward Hanko and National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, City of London Police. (PDF)
· Templeton Prize 2013: Fraud, Corruption & Discrimination: Annexure A, B, & C (PDF)
· Templeton Foundation: Fraud & Discrimination: Annexure D. (PDF)

Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence Sustainable Security Amicus Filed in USA v Bradley Manning

Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence Sustainable Security Amicus Filed in USA v Bradley Manning

CommonSism Aequilibriaex Jurisprudence: Common Sense Guerrylla Laws for a Sustainable Commons. Guerrylla Laws simply and very specifically clarify the difference between the consumption and procreation behaviour of an Unsustainable Taker (Scarcity Combatant) vs a Sustainable Leaver (Eco-Innocent).

Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 02 April 2013

[2.1] Amici’s Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence Sustainable Security Arguments to this AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence Dispute.

A. Credibility Failure/Fraud of AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence: An analysis of the failures of AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence, in terms of its preference to regulate (a) the relations between humans, nature and other animals species and (b) the relations between humans amongst themselves, in terms of their gender, cultural, religious and ideological conflicts; on behalf of the exclusive benefits of Anthropocentric males and corporations.

B. Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence argues that a ‘credible’ Æquilibriæx judicial system – like the gender balanced Mosuo in South West China who have no rape (not even a word in their language for rape, because it does not exist), no murder, no suicide and no unemployment; – is one which accurately and honestly applies the relevant natural or scientific laws, to attain a specific related preferred result of inter-human and intra-species harmony and balance

C. Equilibriæx: Ecocentric analysis of alleged crime with regard to the laws of nature / ecology. Did criminal act contribute to greater inter-species carrying capacity harmony, or dischord, between between humans, nature and other animals species?

D. Aquilibriæx: Anthropocentric analysis of alleged ‘crime’ with regard to the laws of human nature. Did criminal act contribute to greater intra-species equity harmony, or dischord, between humans amongst themselves, in terms of their gender, cultural, religious and ideological conflicts?

CommonSism Primitivist Party's MILINT Sustainable Security Options submitted to Kim Jong-un, RU, US & China

CommonSism Primitivist MILINT Sustainable Security Options submitted to SL Kim Jong-un, Russia, China & USA for resolution of N Korea and Industrial Civilization's Suicide Marches.

In my personal CommonSism Primitivist opinion, if you have the courage to challenge Industrial Civilization, and its primary driver: the United States, to embark on an international course of Sustainable Security; you shall have made one of the most fundamental contributions to the lives of this planet, and all of its species, by stepping infront of the Industrial Civilization suicide train. You shall be Industrial Civilization Titanic’s iceberg.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | TYGAE | 08 April 2013

On Saturday (06) and Sunday (07) April 2013, the unregistered TYGAE Aex Political Party, based upon CommonSism and Aequilibriaex Jurisprudence principles, in South Africa submitted their CommonSism Primitivist MILINT Sustainable Security Options to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, Russia's President Putin, China's President Xi Jinping, America's President Obama, South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and General Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.; for resolution of N Korea and Industrial Civilization's Suicide Marches.

The Russian, American and North Korean Embassies in Pretoria acknowledged receipt of the MILINT Sustainable Security policies, including the offices of Director of National Intelligence: Mr. James Clapper, and United States Environmental Command Offices in Fort Sam, Houston, Texas.

The TYGAE Primitivist CommonSism submissions suggest that both North Korea and Industrial Civilization inspired by the West, primarily America are on Suicide Marches. Resolving these suicide marches requires international adoption of Sustainable Security Policies.

Sustainable Security policies being: [1] Industrial Civilization is on a Tragedy of the Commons planetary suicide march. [2] Only the international adoption of Sustainable Security policies can stop Industrial Civilization’s Suicide March. [3] National Sustainable Security policies: [3.1] Every Nation must draw up a Sustainable Security Plan, by 09 September 2014. Each nation’s Sustainable Security plans must clarify: [3.1A] Detailed analysis of what their nation’s ecological carrying capacity is. [3.1B] How they intend to require every citizen, corporation and organisation to reduce/maintain their consumption and procreation practices to remaining below carrying capacity. [3.1C] Their planned De-Industrialization and/or Primitivization Policies. [3.2] International Sustainable Security Peace Treaties: [3.2A] All ‘Peace treaties’ which do not require both parties to maintain their nation citizens’ procreation and consumption practices below carrying capacity, as a fundamental requirement for the credibility of the peace treaty should be considered ‘War is Peace’ Whore treaties, and null and void, and renegotiated. [3.2B] Any credible ‘Sustainable Security’ Peace Treaty, must require all parties to the Peace Treaty to maintain their nation’s citizens and corporations procreation, consumption and production practices below carrying capacity. Any nation which allows their citizens or corporations to engage in a breeding, consumption or production war, shall be considered to have declared war with all other Sustainable Security nations.

Transparency Copies were also submitted to the Leaders of the following countries, via their Embassies, and various left and right wing political parties in their respective countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, United Kingdom

Mr. Sexwale: Lets co-create a Sustainable AfroBoerCentric Gender Balanced Low Tech Agrarian and/or Primitivist Future

Mr. Sexwale: Lets co-create a Sustainable AfroBoerCentric Gender Balanced Low Tech Agrarian and/or Primitivist Future

Radical Honoursty Culture and Yshmael Guerrylla Law Party dispute Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale’s Unsustainable Eurocentric AnthroCorpocentric Cultural Imperialist ‘Compulsive Development’ worldview; and advocate on behalf of a Sustainable AfroBoerCentric Gender Balanced Low Tech Agrarian and/or Primitivist Future.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | 20 March 2013 | SQSwans

In Uncontrollable increase in informal settlements – Sexwale, City Press reports that speaking at the establishment of the chair for education in human settlements development management at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale said that the growth of informal settlements compounded the problem of meeting the demand for housing, as the “number of informal settlements is growing uncontrollably. Likewise, the populations inside these ghettos is increasing rapidly.”

In terms of solutions Minister Sexwale suggested an alleged comprehensive approach, represented by (a) the national development plan (NDP) and (b) underpinned by the presidential infrastructure coordinating commission’s strategy on infrastructure; and (c) the need to professionalize the public service, including the creation of capacity and competency, particularly at local government level. You further state that the developmental approach advocated in the NDP hinges upon an economy that is performing optimally as opposed to the current low economic growth rate and high unemployment, particularly among young people.

Radical Honoursty Culture & Yshmael Guerrylla Law Positions:

The Radical Honoursty culture is a gender balanced culture which practices Æquilibriæx jurisprudence and authentic Multiculturalism; as opposed to all of South Africa’s other cultures, which are patriarchal, and practice AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence and fake Multiculturalism: the Egotist Consumptionism Ideology of Multinational Capitalism. The Yshmael Guerrylla law Party is an unregistered Æx party, currently drawing up its Constitution and related documents for registration.

[1] The national development plan (NDP) and the presidential infrastructure coordinating commission’s strategy on infrastructure are based upon an extremely inaccurate ecologically destructive Eurocentric AnthroCorpocentric Cultural Imperialist ‘Compulsive Development’ worldview. The NDP’s AnthroCorpocentric worldview ignores the ecological reality that “all industrialized and industrializing nations, irrespective of their economic and political orientations, are unsustainable and will collapse, by 2050, as a consequence of their dependence upon increasingly scarce NNRs.” (Clugston, 2012). The NDP appear totally and utterly oblivious to the reality of Peak NNR/Oil: The peak production and impending global exhaustion of (a) Antimony; (b) Bauxite; (c) Bismuth; (d) Cadmium; (e) Chromium; (f) Coal; (g) Cobalt; (h) Copper; (i) Fluorspar; (j) Graphite (Natural); (k) Iron Ore; (l) Lead; (m) Lithium; (n) Manganese; (o) Molybdenum; (p) Natural Gas; (q) Nickel; (r) Niobium; (s) Oil; (t) Rhenium; (u) Silver; (v) Thalium; (w) Tin; (x) Tungsten; (y) Uranium; (z) Zinc; (aa) Zirconium; and the consequent impending collapse of industrial civilization and all industrialized nations by 2050.

[2] The growth of informal settlements and the population growth within informal settlements are caused by: (A) Patriarchal and AnthroCorpocentric cultural and ideological procreation and resource utilization values; and (B) The ANC’s conscious and deliberate “abnormal government-sponsored population explosion of Malthusian poverty aggravation, moral degeneration and social disintegration.” (Mabogoane, 2008)

[3] The only comprehensive holistic solutions to reducing the growth of informal settlements and population growth within informal settlements; while simultaneously preparing South Africans for a sustainable Primitivist future, is to: (A) Put an end the ANC’s conscious and deliberate “abnormal government-sponsored population explosion of Malthusian poverty aggravation, moral degeneration and social disintegration”; (B) Implement laws to regulate and reduce human procreation and resource utilization behaviour; towards a sustainable, pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm; (C) Voluntarily begin the process of De-Industrialization and Primitivization.

[4] If the Minister seriously wishes to professionalize the public service, where such public service teaches South African citizens how to survive in a Post Peak Oil and NNR world, he should be hiring people who can teach everyone how to either (a) live in a gender balanced low tech agrarian culture, or (b) become primitives again

Going Green: Does Germany dispute Scarcity's NNR induced Collapse of Civilization research conclusions?

Req for Env Info: Does Germany dispute Scarcity's NNR induced Collapse of Civilization research conclusions?

Does Germany dispute Chris Clugston’s Scarcity research conclusions of the Post-Peak Oil/NNR self-inflicted – exponential economic and population growth addiction – global societal collapse of Industrial Civilization and all industrialized nation states, almost certainly by the year 2050.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | SQSwans | 16 March 2013

Request for Environment Information, to Germany's Minister of Environment: Peter Altmaier, in terms of Aarhus Convention Article 4: Access to Environment Information: Studies which dispute Chris Clugston’s Scarcity research conclusions of the Post-Peak Oil/NNR self-inflicted – exponential economic and population growth addiction – global societal collapse of Industrial Civilization and all industrialized nation states, almost certainly by the year 2050.

The Price of Green Energy: Is Germany Killing the Environment to Save It?

The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting "green energy" supporters against ecologists.

Gary Steiner: Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals In the History of Western Philosophy

Gary Steiner: Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals In the History of Western Philosophy

January 26 2011: Adam Roufberg's Interview with Professor Gary Steiner - Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals In the History of Western Philosophy

Adam Roufberg | Monday, 24 January 2011 | Radio Active Lunch

Part I to III of Adam Roufberg's series of interview with John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University Gary Steiner on his book Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals In the History of Western Philosophy and Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. This extensive interview covers the major players in the development of the our moral disposition and the way we view and, therefore, treat animals.

(Gary) Well, in a way, yes, and in a way, no. The industrialized aspects of it, especially in North America, I think took about 2500 years to get to. And you needed a certain set of values that were established in the ancient Greek world and they sort of developed and reinforced themselves over the ensuing several thousand years. And then you basically need the development of capitalism and industrialization and so forth and that’s how you get to things like intensive CAFO, factory-farming type operations. But there’s a sense in which this isn’t really something new because the ancient Greeks already as far back as Aristotle and the stoic philosophers had this view that human beings are the highest beings in the created world and that everything else, including all non-human animals, existed and were, in fact, created expressly to satisfy the needs and desires of human beings. So people as far back as Aristotle—we’re talking roughly 400 BC—argued as a kind of cosmic principle that it’s perfectly permissible to use animals and that we shouldn’t really have any scruples about doing so. Essentially the idea was this: the highest thing a human being can do, these thinkers thought, and this is something you see in a lot of forms all the way through the history of Western philosophy, is engage in detached, abstract, contemplative activity—contemplating the stars, contemplating the eternal truth, and so forth. And the logic was: OK, the way that you make yourself able to engage in contemplative activities is to satisfy your material needs. And from there it was a very, very short step to saying, “Well, OK, everything in the natural world that is not capable of rational contemplation is just an instrumentality to be used by rational beings.” And that’s how this sort of fundamental division got established between human and non-human beings where human beings were considered to be the only rational beings in creation and all non-human beings, including non-human animals, were considered just to be sort of almost inert instrumentalities.

WIPO Amicus: Memetic Liberty Challenge to Intellectual Property; CommonSism Challenge to Anthropocentic Jurisprudence

EcoFeminist Sustainable Security Guerrylla Law CommonSist Amicus Curiae Submission to ICANN: WIPO in Ron Paul v RonPaul.com dispute

Amicus alleges (1) WIPO’s ‘Intellectual Property’ doctrine is founded upon Memetic Tyranny Jurisprudence; (2) WIPO’s Treaties are not Credible Peace/Problem Solving Treaties. WIPO Treaties – like all International Treaties -- are Parasitic ‘War is Peace’ Whore Treaties, to the extent that they ignore CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security and Sustainable Rights principles.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | 14 February 2013 | SQSwans

Memetic Liberty, as enunciated, by among others, Susan Blackmore in ‘Waking from the Meme Dream’ , is confronting the reality that:

[37.1] Neurologically speaking, we believe in a ‘self’ that does not exist: the central controller we commonly believe exists somewhere in our brain, and is “I” is an illusion. There simply is no one inside our brains, our brains are colonized by various meme-complexes, one of those meme-complexes being the ego-memeplex belief that there is an ‘I’ in the brain, a central controller, a decider of decisions or an experiencer of experiences.

[37.2] Although our ego meme-complex has convinced us that there really is someone inside our brain to do our believing, thinking, decision-making, who needs to be protected; who ‘we’ are, are just temporary conglomerations of ideas, moulded together for our protection. Our bodies are the creations of temporary gene-complexes, and our minds are the creations of temporary meme-complexes, which have come from previous creatures, and will, when we speak and write and communicate, go on into future creatures.

Green Right Wing: What do Native Americans think of multiculturalism?

The Right Wing Organic Farmers of Germany



Sally McGrane | New Yorker | January 11, 2013

Compilation of:

** The Right Wing Organic Farmers of Germany: “I am not a Nazi,” he said. “But ask your Native Americans what they think of multiculturalism.” (Sally McGrane | New Yorker | January 11, 2013)

** The Stark Truth: Greg Johnson on Eco-Fascism: Greg Johnson’s definition of fascism; * Human-centrism versus nature-centrism, and its religious roots; * Savitri Devi and Pentti Linkola; * Vegetarianism and the quality of life of farm animals; (April 2, 2012 | Reason Radio | Robert Stark & Greg Johnson)

** German far-right extremists tap into green movement for support: Support for ecological movement and conservation used to try to recruit a new generation of supporters (Kate Connolly | The Observer | 28 April 2012 23.51 BST)

Bindi Irwin: Practice What You Preach puzzle: Publish CIA Maria Bochkareva Pay Price 4 Peace Peacenik Oath?

Bindi Irwin: Practice What You Preach puzzle: Publish CIA Maria Bochkareva Pay Price 4 Peace Peacenik Oath?


One Child Price for Peace | CIA Leaver Peacenik Honour Medal | Indigenous Rights European Code of Honour

Andrea Muhrrteyn | SQSwans | 24 January 2013

Bindi Irwin: Practice What You Preach puzzle: Publish CIA Maria Bochkareva Pay Price 4 Peace Peacenik Oath?

Pardon my bluntness.

The reason the State Department requested you to write an essay, is because you are not a real – practice what you preach (seen the Corporate Consumptionism advertising on your celebrity whore Consumptionism websites, lately?) – conservationist.

The State Department – like you and all celebrity whores -- is interested in Bullshit the Public Relation Image Management, not ecological root cause problem solving.

Don’t believe me. Why not take the Practice What You Preach Puzzle:

• Publish your signed and served ‘Maria Bochkareva Pay Price 4 Peace Peacenik’ Oath (Encl); or your reasons for your refusal to do so.

Hillary Clinton & State Dept silence 14 yr old Australian alleged conservationist on population growth

Hillary Clinton tries to silence Bindi Irwin on population growth

Bindi Irwin submits essay to Hillary Clinton's e-journal | 14 year-old says population growth is detrimental to the earth | Clinton's e-journal edits out all references to population

By Kristin Shorten | news.com.au | January 24, 201312:01PM

PASSIONATE wildlife campaigner Bindi Irwin has gotten into a biff with one of the world's most powerful women.

The 14-year-old has stood her ground after an essay she was invited to write for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-journal was drastically edited before it was to be published.

The young conservationist, daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, was asked to write 800-1000 words on why she had chosen to devote her life's work to wildlife conservation.

The piece was supposed to be published in the December issue titled Go Wild Coming Together for Conservation as part of Secretary Clinton's endangered species initiative.

But after writing exactly 1000 words urging society to address overpopulation, the former first lady's department returned it for final approval with most of it edited out.

If everyone consumed & procreated like President Zuma, we would need 2,090 earths

If everyone consumed & procreated like President Zuma, we would need 2,090 earths

Jacob Zuma's consumption footprint is 65.66 global hectares (gha). His procreation footprint factor is 25 x 20 = 500. His net consumption x procreation footprint is 33,280 gha. If everyone consumed and procreated like Jacob Zuma, we would need 2,090 earths.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | SQSwans | 13 January 2013

Email to Office of SA Presidency: Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 6:00 PM.

President Jacob Zuma
c/o Office of the Presidency

CC: Center Sustainable Economy | WWF: CEO: Morne du Plessis | Global Footprint Network | Oregon Univ: Paul Murtaugh | Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

RE: Request Confirmation of President Zuma’s Consumption and Procreation Facts, to confirm his Net Ecological Footprint viz a viz the importance of discussing overconsumption & population’s role on scarcity, conflict and impending civilization collapse.

Please find attached the aforementioned letter for the attention of the President's office.

U.S. Forest Service Predicts a Strain on Natural Resources Due to Rapid Population Growth

U.S. Forest Service Predicts a Strain on Natural Resources Due to Rapid Population Growth

U.S. Forest Service report outlines how a growing population and increased urbanization in the next 50 years will drain the nation's natural resources including water supplies, open space, and forests.

Friday, December 21, 2012, 9:46 AM EST | Numbers USA

The U.S. Forest Service has released a report this week which outlines how a growing population and increased urbanization in the next 50 years will drain the nation's natural resources including water supplies, open space, and forests. A recent study from the Center for Immigration Studies found that if current immigration levels remain steady, the population of the United States will increase by 127 million by the year 2050.

The same CIS study determined that population would increase by 78.9 million by the year 2050 should immigration levels be cut in half.

The U.S. Forest Service study shows the potential for a significant loss of privately-owned forestland, which could dramatically reduce the benefits Americans receive from the land such as clean water, wildlife habitat, and forest products.

Every Child Increases EcoFootprint by a Factor of 20 - Oregon Univ Study

FAMILY PLANNING: A MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL EMPHASIS

The carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives – things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.

7-31-09 | Oregon University | Paul Murtaugh

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their “carbon footprint” on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit – have one less child.

A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives – things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.

Doug Stanhope: Reduce Overpopulation with Sodomy & Green Abortion (02:46)