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

[robert searle]

Dear All, and Sundry!!


Yes, I must say the resource (ie.global issues)given here is interesting, and useful. It also uses quotes from credible, and respected sources on various matters.

I was amused to read here that MR got banned from the SIMPOL site!!!

Robert Searle.




--- On Tue, 10/6/08, mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

> From: mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net>
> Subject: [GJM] Fw: MUST READ: from Anup Shah on: Misallocation of Resources leading to insanity?
> To: FixGov at yahoogroups.com, "Discussion Forum for Global Justice" <discussion at globaljusticemovement.net>
> Date: Tuesday, 10 June, 2008, 11:22 PM
> 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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