The Right To Privacy by Samuel Warren and Louis D. Brandeis | The Louis D. Brandeis Collection. "It could be done only on principles of private justice, moral fitness, and public convenience, which, when applied to a new subject, make common law without a precedent; much more when received and approved by usage. " Willes, J., in Millar v. Taylor, 4 Burr, 2303, 2312. That the individual shall have full protection in person and in property is a principle as old as the common law; but it has been found necessary from time to time to define anew the exact nature and extent of such protection. Political, social, and economic changes entail the recognition of new rights, and the common law, in its eternal youth, grows to meet the demands of society. Thus, with the recognition of the legal value of sensations, the protection against actual bodily injury was extended to prohibit mere attempts to do such injury; that is, the putting another in fear of such injury.
This development of the law was inevitable. Climate change: Red alert in the Anthropocene. It is fitting that “Anthropocene”, the term coined just more than ten years ago by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist, denotes the new ecological period, following the end of the Holocene, when humans became the principal force driving changes in the planetary system. I say this because the Holocene (“New Whole”), or stable geological period of about 12 000 years between ice ages, came to an end around the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s, which is exactly the time when humans moved into the position where they are capable of affecting life on earth as we know it. Unfortunately the Anthropocene may turn out, if scientists working in the area of the geo-sciences are correct in their assessment of what are now called “planetary boundaries”, to be a mere flicker in terms of geological time.
For example, the pre-industrial value of climate change was 280 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration. CDM: CDM-Home. About Vinay Gupta. Head over to Re.silience.com. It’s a much better starting point than here! Click through to Re.silience.com. (if you are interested in my professional work, try here) I am trying to keep you alive. There are lots of threats which governments are either ignoring or causing. I am filling in the gaps. Nuclear war, bioweapons, even plain old conflict are driven by resource scarcity. A likely response to increasing resource scarcity (manifest as economic problems and rising prices) is centralization of power (fascism). Finding better solutions than centralization and war is my life’s work. To this end I’ve worked extensively with government, the military, some large companies and think-tanks – but most of all with the Free and open source community – to solve real problems.
Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video This video me in action at Surviving the Event. Here is a visual index of my activities. If you are professionally interested in my work, read on. What can I do for you? <em>To Everything, Tern, Tern, Tern</em>: Explore.org's Live Cams Present the Birth of Worldly Birds. Consider the planet. This planet. I love sci-fi more than many, but I relegate terraforming to hopeful speculative fiction for at least the next few centuries. This planet, this Gaia, she's what we've got, she's where we belong, she's big and beautiful, and she needs our attention.
Happily, in addition to the myriad ways anyone can appreciate life on Earth, we have a website fully devoted to this planet, its people, and its many creatures -- in real time, in hi-def, and if you can read this post you can check it out. It's explore.org, an appropriately defined "portal into the soul humanity" where human rights meet animal rights meet ways of sustaining life on the aforementioned very nice planet. Supported by the Annenberg Foundation, it's a smart, informative, ever-expanding -- well, it's more than a site, really: an experience -- featuring multicultural, philanthropic, truly exciting ways to, yes, explore the world, starting from your desktop, laptop, or gadget. Impressive. "Hey! TED talks. Openness. Wiser Soc Net. WikiLeaks fLick. The annotated transcript 19:00 GMT, May 23, 2013 Introduction This document is an annotated transcript of the anti-WikiLeaks documentary "We Steal Secrets: The story of WikiLeaks".
It opens on May 24, 2013 (tomorrow). The documentary was commissioned by Universal for $2 million. The commission went to US film maker Alex Gibney, who is listed as the film's director and producer. The film is filled with factual errors and speculation, the most serious of which are set out below. The film implies – erroneously and when evidence is to the contrary – that Assange may be guilty of "conspiring" with Bradley Manning.
Bradley Manning is currently being court-martialed for committing "espionage" (by communicating with the press) and "aiding the enemy" (by communicating with the press). Neither Julian Assange nor anyone associated with WikiLeaks agreed to participate in this film. The documentary's transcript is in the right-hand column, the annotations and citations are on the left. NASA scientist: Circular econ. "Amusing.." book review. Huxley, Orwell & Television Below is the foreword of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business. His book, written in 1985, warned that entertainment values corrupt the way Americans think about news, politics, education, and religion, and that these values are transmitted and validated by television. "Television," Postman writes, "has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation: it demands a performing art.
" Mr. Postman died in October 2003. "We were keeping our eye on 1984. "But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another -- slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. "This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right. " - Return Home - Radical collaboration. To solve the crises we face - especially the pressing issues of climate change, poverty and human trafficking - radical collaboration is essential.
This means collaboration between organizations, between individuals, across political lines and between for-profit and non-profit organizations. It means putting aside our self-interests when they stand in the way of a greater good. [edit] How far should we go? Collaboration is a complex matter, and should not be sought just for its own sake. Maintain a focus on the mission, and note Himmelman's stages of working together - move in gradual steps in deepening relationships, look for practical, achievable actions, and find the level appropriate to the relationship and the mission. See Collaboration #How far should we go?
For further examination of this issue. [edit] See also. The American Anti-Corruption Act. Blindspotting. Join MAHB | MAHB. Article: Precycling premiums and the possibility of continuing growth. Economic growth is taking us to the cliff edge. Opposing economic growth isn't turning us around. There's another way... Frisson , il on linen 85 x 147 cm 2010 by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox A short link for this page is Summary We need to go beyond patchy improvements and to bring humanity decisively into a global revival - of nature, co-operation, economies and the prospects for everyone's future. This means reshaping the whole economy. If we make this switch (and the others ) soon enough there is the opportunity of aligning real progress with economic progress. Please see also the related info: The full peer-reviewed paper that this article is extracted from: Seven Policy Switches for Global Security The earlier peer-reviewed paper with more about precycling insurance, Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate and Global Security (global paradigm change) .
A conference paper and slides, From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival? Many thanks! 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. Paul Gilding. I think it’s time to call it. Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry towards inevitable collapse. Some of you will struggle with that statement. Most people accept the idea that fossil fuels are all powerful – that the industry controls governments and it will take many decades to force them out of our economy. Fortunately, the fossil fuel industry suffers the same delusion. In fact, probably the main benefit of the US shale gas and oil “revolution” is that it’s keeping the fossil fuel industry and it’s cheer squad distracted while renewables, electric cars and associated technologies build the momentum needed to make their takeover unstoppable – even by the most powerful industry in the world.
How could they miss something so profound? Deep Change. Dark Mountain Project. Image credit: The Dark Mountain Project I'll make no attempt to deny it. I am both an optimist, and a deeply impractical person. I suspect that's why I've always had a hard time accepting the darker visions for the future offered by peak oilers like Oily Cassandra, or the ever thought-provoking James Kunstler. Let's face it, I'm not likely to last long if the worst-case collapse scenario materializes. (Plus, I quite like my warm showers and cozy bed.) Yet while I love to write about new ways of doing things—whether it's kite-powered shipping or transition towns—it would take extraordinary levels of denial not to at least entertain the possibility that our current financial and social structures may not last forever.
"Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand seldom describe any deep revelation about the truths of human existence. As Kingsnorth explains in a piece about the origins of the Dark Mountain Project over at the Guardian, that manifesto touched a nerve. Op-ed: CO2. Atmospheric CO2 is approaching 400 parts per million for the first time in about 15 million years. That's more than a 40 percent increase since the 19th century. It's currently increasing at least 10 times faster than during the previous record high, which by strange coincidence was set right before the end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago. A mountain of evidence has convinced the overwhelming majority of scientists that our skyrocketing CO2 emissions have very likely caused most of the global warming since 1950. What does this mean for Southern California? The National Academies recently projected about 1 to 5 feet of sea level rise along the Southern California coast by 2100.
This will accelerate the erosion of our beaches, flood coastal properties, increase the salinity of coastal farmland and make winter storm surges punishing. Heat waves, droughts and wildfires will be more severe in continental interiors, such as during the 2010 Russian wheat crisis. John Lennon Gave A Secret Interview 40 Years Ago. This Is The Recording. Earth Tipping Point. Dymaxion. Go here for info. Xiha. Wikipedia Redefined. Monsanto & GMOs. WHAT DO I DO? | Science Pope. Okay, if you’ve made it this far, you’re probably thinking to yourself either “What can I do to help?” Or “Holy shit, I’m so scared I think I peed a little.“ Well, if you’ve internalized what you’ve read so far, I won’t sugarcoat it for you: we’re going to see some rough times in the next couple of decades. Put simply: embrace our problems for what they are. And take heart! Here is what I would say: the problem of climate change is enormous, it involves everything from energy to agriculture, politics to economics.
Go ahead and post that rant on social media. What kind of cryptic half-answer is that, right? If you still feel like that’s too much of a cop out, if you’re still too fired up to settle for a slow organic solution, then good. Easy, At-Your Leisure Engagement follow on Twitter (@SciencePope)Like on Facebook (Science Pope)subscribe to the email newsletter (in the sidebar, at the top). Videos to check out Books you can read Medium Engagement Heavy Engagement End fossil fuel subsidies. Why permaculture needs to expand systems thinking to handle natural disasters. Climate change may ultimately force us to live in more resilient, ecocity-like settlements. What are the chances that the New Jersey shoreline hit by Hurricane Sandy gets rebuilt along your design ideas? What would you tell the local planners if they asked you for help? RR: That would be a nice invitation. It would be the same thing I said after Hurricane Katrina. Well, in New York you will need a higher dike, because you're not going to de-build Manhattan.
This is the idea I brought to New Orleans and I could bring it to New Jersey, if people were receptive to the idea. You could have these kinds of islands of development along the New Jersey coast or Brooklyn, where you can dredge and change the nature of the landscape. But really, you don't want that to happen in the first place. It sounds like the problem is the human psyche. RR: Looking at the solution instead, we need the courage to extend permaculture on a community scale. The basic principle here is knowing what to build. Cogitations.