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Staying on the train

By Carolyn Baker | January 27, 2014

time flies sign

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. -- Rabindranath Tagore Nearly every day I speak with people who are confused, bewildered, disoriented, or conversely, extraordinarily clear about what is happening to them. A few years, months, or weeks earlier, they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: climate change, collapse, Fukushima, near-term extinction, peak oil, Rumi, Tagore

Against the specialist, the expert and the technocrat

By Erik Curren | November 18, 2013

technology is a given

In these days of ecological overshoot, about the only experts I can abide are climate scientists. Without the facts we get from scientists, what would we say to climate science deniers? So I'm glad to see more climate scientists step out of the ivory tower in the world's hour of need. But sometimes I wish even climate brainiacs would stick to their labs and leave public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: experts, Fukushima, James Hansen, James Lovelock, nuclear power, Sir Albert Howard

Fukushima and climate: The earth community in hospice

By Carolyn Baker | November 8, 2013

Fukushima decontamination worker

To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment. -- Andrew Harvey As I write these words in early November, 2013, humanity is confronting an unprecedented and horrific challenge which it may or may not survive. I’m referring to two uncanny realities about which we are not being told the unmitigated truth. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: Fukushima, Helen Caldicott, near-term extinction, nuclear power, TEPCO

Japan greenlights ‘perilous’ cleanup at Fukushima’s Reactor 4

By Staff Reports | November 1, 2013

Fukushima sign

Removal of 1,300 spent fuel rods deemed "humankind's most dangerous moment since Cuban Missile Crisis" Regulators with Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the final OK Wednesday for the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to begin to remove the 1300 spent fuel rods from the badly damaged Unit 4 pool, thus initiating a decommissioning process … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Fukushima, harvey wasserman, nuclear power, nuclear waste, TEPCO

Despair: Every hour offers a choice

By Carolyn Baker | October 25, 2013

man sitting in despair

PART 4 OF 5. This article is the fourth part of a five-part series by Carolyn Baker on dealing with the emotions aroused by the collapse of industrial civilization, “What Collapse Feels Like.” Read the entire series here as it becomes available. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: "What Collapse Feels Like", die before you die, Fukushima, hospice, making meaning, Rumi, Victor Frankl

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