[GJM] Fw: MUST READ: from Anup Shah on: Misallocation of Resources leading to insanity?

[mary rose]

Co-learners.  This is a marvelous resource for us. Dear
friend, Anup Shah, from so many years ago when I was
thrown off of the SIMPOL list for mouthing off, has
accumulated loads of data that tell the real story.

For example, Anup writes with regard to 1) Trade Related Consumption 
patterns, below:  "Over" population is usually blamed as the major cause of 
environmental degradation, but the above statistics strongly suggests 
otherwise.
Dr. Alam, this should give you and Dr. Kent Mesplay of the Green Party, 
along with others on the Global Justice Movement List, plenty of power for 
your efforts in achieving sustainability and ending poverty worldwide. .

I very much agree with Anup that we need the statistics as he urges below, 
but am fwd this in the best interests of all concerned, while I look these 
things up that he is asking of me. .

With much love and gratitude, Anup, for all that you do and all that we do 
together. What a marvelous resource base you have created for the world.  I 
must remind myself to "consult Anups database" before I publish anything to 
see if you have already covered it.  Certainly will save time.  :

More later - mary rose   .Now here's the info from Anup.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anup Shah" <sub at globalissues.org>
To: "mary rose" <maryrose333 at att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Misallocation of Resources leading to insanity?


 Hi,

 Hope you are keeping well.

 These kind of statistics are really powerful. However, to be shared
 widely, in particular to an audience not usually interested in these
 issues they need to be sourced/cited, else others will not accept them...

 I in particular am interested in the first two stats you have, and the
 sources for those stats?

 In return, here are a few more :)

 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption.asp (look for the
 World Bank's 2003 figures. The table presented is a bit old, but powerful)
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption/Beef.asp (you know
 these ones!)
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/
 http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp
 http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/BigBusiness.asp
 http://www.globalissues.org/food/crisis-2008/
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/Scale.asp
 http://www.globalissues.org/health/

 I am sure there are more, but that's probably enough for now...

 -- 
 Regards,
 Anup Shah
 http://www.globalissues.org

> On Tue, June 10, 2008 4:10 pm, mary rose wrote:
 Did you know that the U.S. uses 60 - 80% of its oil fighting wars in order
 to get more oil?
>>
>> Did you know that the largest U.S. agricultural sector is LAWNS?
>> Incredibly, lawns use more equipment, labor, fuel, and agricultural
>> chemicals than all large-scale farming in the United States, making it 
>> the
>> largest agricultural sector.
>>
>> What happened to food and nutrition as a first consideration? Well, what
>> happened to food and nutrition is that the average transport length from
>> producer to market in the U.S. is 1500 miles!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Did you know that it takes 3200 gallons of water to get one pound of beef
>> to market, and that cattle (including milk cows) are now considered to be
>> the number one contributer to global warming through methane emissions?
>> And we haven't even mentioned yet how many more people could be fed if we
>> stopped cycling grain through beef and ate grain direct. Yet raising beef
>> cattle for market is number three in revenue production in the world?
>> And now, people not only have to compete with beef cattle for food, they
>> have to compete with cars as well?  Wheeeeh!!!!!
>>
>> Did you know that the U.S. became the most prosperous nation in the
>> history of the world in the years since World War II, yet in the same
>> amount of time did more environmental damage than at any time in all of
>> past recorded history?
>>
>> And now the solution to the problem is concentration camps and genocide?
>>
>> LETS STOP THE INSANITY !!!!!!
>>
>> I'm going to be posting more of these facts and figures regularly.  Why
>> don't all of you put on your thinking caps and help me accumulate a big
>> list that we can begin to address by "being the change we wish to see in
>> our lives." That is, by voting our dollars in the marketplace to create
>> change where it really counts.  We may not be able to gain control of the
>> monetary system and create reform at the present time, but we-the-people
>> can give money a SOUL by wisely directing where it goes through modifying
>> our spending habits.
>>
>> with love and gratitude to all of you for all that you do and all that we
>> do together.
>>
>> mary rose
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