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Living in Denial: Why Even People Who Believe in Climate Change Do Nothing About It

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Posted on May 23, 2011

Humans have stolen their future. Now what?

Don’t be fooled by the title of Kari Marie Norgaard’s Living in Denial – this is not a book about people who reject the basic science of climate change (I’m looking at you, Koch brothers and Exxon). This is a book about many of us, and how we to varying degrees live in denial. Although focusing on a small rural community in Norway, Norgaard sheds light on how people systematically interact in ways that serve to downplay or ignore climate change, and avoid the unsettling emotions it raises.

Published: May 23, 2011 0 comments

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Pigeon Shoots in the Quaker State

by Posted by Addison dePitt Published: May 3, 2011

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April 25, 2011

Preserving a Psychopathic Tradition?

By WALTER BRASCH

A moral imbecile proclaiming his status to the world. Depravity in the name of pastimes and "sport" in modern America. Of course neither politicians nor local clergy, nor the media, have ever done anything about it.

Take a pigeon.

Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don’t give the bird much freedom to move. Don’t worry about food or water. It won’t matter.

Take some of the pigeons—who are already disoriented from hours, maybe days, of confinement—and place a couple of them each into spring-loaded box traps on a field.

Published: May 3, 2011 0 comments

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Art, nukes, & ethical energy

by shorty Published: April 25, 2011

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE
Morals & Society
EDITORIAL, April 2011

Is there no the ethical limit to what humans can do to helpless animals?

Evaristti and unwitting "partner" in art.

BY MERRITT CLIFTON, Animal People Magazine

CHILEAN SHOCK ARTIST Marco Evaristti won global notoriety in February 2000 with an exhibit at the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding, Denmark, consisting of 10 blenders containing live goldfish. Visitors were invited to puree a goldfish.

Friends of Animals/Denmark, not affiliated with the U.S. organization Friends of Animals, won an injunction ordering that the electricity supply to the blenders should be cut off. When two goldfish were pureed anyhow, FoA/Denmark pursued criminal charges against Evaristti and museum director Peter Meyer. The case against Meyer went to court in May 2003. Meyer was acquitted, but even in Denmark, whose national identity is intertwined with commercial fishing, whale massacres in the Faroe Islands, and the Copenhagen fur trade, public opinion clearly rejected the notion of pulverizing live fish as “art.”

Evaristti, however, took the show on the road. On April 20, 2006 the blenders and goldfish arrived in Dornbirn, Austria. That night four animal advocates broke into the art gallery, smashed the blenders, and took the fish.

Published: April 25, 2011 0 comments

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An end to oil company sponsorship of the arts

by shorty Published: April 23, 2011

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Recent studies suggest that a high number of birds are dying in Alberta's tar sands, yet another "collateral" cost to our subservience to the oil industry.

BY MARK VALLEN

IN MARKING the one year anniversary of the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I signed a letter of protest along with 165 other arts professionals and activists that appeared in the Guardian on April 20, 2011. Titled Tate should end its relationship with BP, the letter calls on the Tate Gallery of London “to demonstrate its commitment to a sustainable future by ending its sponsorship relationship with BP.”

Published: April 23, 2011 0 comments

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EASTER: PITY THE POOR LAMB

by shorty Published: April 23, 2011

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Philosophical discussion series—

Is it morally correct to eat the flesh of animals? Is the fact that so many do validate it as an ethical act? Those who indulge in such practices have plenty of help in religious quarters, almost all of which preach “dominionism”.

BY ROSE EISENBUD

British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Don't let the cuddly image fool you. He has no scruples when it comes to teaching the world how to make lamb chops.
The following poignant comment is from an animal activist: “We are truly so arrogant as to celebrate the birth of a holy man and his death by eating the stolen dead flesh of the innocent” Joann

Why such a contradiction is possible was earnestly explained to me by Gheorghe Constantin Nistorioiu a cleric of the Eastern Orthodox Church:

“All the creatures have their life in the command of God, while man has it in the work (genesis) of God according His Holy model. So, the man having the royal seal is made to lead over creation. The whole creation is submitted to the man.”

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Published: April 23, 2011 1 comment