Join a New Video Project in Defense of WikiLeaks. January 28th, 2011 10:23 PM By Tangerine Bolen Hello World-Wide Wiki Citizens! The following is a brief description of this project with instructions on how to participate and submit your video clips. Julian Assange’s extradition hearing date is set to occur on either Feb 7th or 8th, 2011. Our goal is to release this video on the day of his hearing. With your help it will be a very powerful message that will be heard by many people around the world. Due to our very tight deadline we ask that you submit video clips back to us by February 2nd.
Project Overview This is a simple and direct open letter to the US government about Wikileaks and Julian Assange spoken on video by people from around the world. The objective of this project is two-fold. Revised Video Clip Participation Instructions 1. A-C: Read paragraph 1D-G: Read paragraph 2H-K: Read paragraph 3L-O: Read paragraph 4P-S: Read paragraph 5T-V: Read paragraph 6W-Z: Read paragraph 7 Tips for being on video: • Put your heart into this! 2. Uncontacted tribes - Survival International. What are ‘undiscovered’ or ‘lost’ tribes? This is empty sensationalism. It’s extremely unlikely there are any tribes whose existence is totally unknown to anyone else.
What do you mean by ‘uncontacted’? Peoples who have no peaceful contact with anyone in the mainstream or dominant society. There are about 100 uncontacted tribes in the world. Does that mean they have no contact with anyone else at all? No. Will they ever have been in contact? In some cases, probably. Some who now grow no crops, but rely purely on gathering wild foods, may have had vegetable gardens in the past. So they aren’t necessarily living as they were in past centuries? No one is.
So are there any pristine societies? All peoples are changing all the time and always have, including uncontacted tribes. How long have they lived there? Generally, tribal peoples have lived on their lands for many generations if not millennia. Some say reports of uncontacted tribes are faked. What’s Survival position on going there? Des mots importants. Catastrophe malthusienne. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Une catastrophe malthusienne désigne un effondrement démographique qui suit une croissance exponentielle de la population et qui est dû à l'épuisement des ressources consécutif à cette croissance.
Explication[modifier | modifier le code] En 1798, Thomas Malthus remarque que les populations vivantes tendent à avoir une croissance géométrique (ou exponentielle : il faut un temps constant pour que la population double) alors que les ressources semblent ne pouvoir croître que de façon arithmétique (ou linéaire : chaque doublement demande un temps double du précédent). Du fait que toute croissance géométrique, aussi lente soit elle, finit toujours par dépasser toute croissance arithmétique, aussi rapide soit elle, il déduit qu'une catastrophe démographique est inévitable à moins d'empêcher la population de croître. Chez l'animal[modifier | modifier le code] Dans différentes sociétés humaines[modifier | modifier le code] Toutefois : The Story of Stuff.