Interesting Author: Derrick Jensen... deep ecology - and David Grinspoon - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.

http://www.derrickjensen.org/

Required reading at Humboldt State University: A Language Older than Words... about inter species communication... Like between Me and My Cats... 
 http://www.derrickjensen.org/work/books-dvds-cds/

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Interesting author: David Grinspoon - Deep Ecology - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.

Yes, we are clever monkeys... We can figure a way to solve our own problems. Looking at our history over millions of years, we have figured out how to survive every time and it's likely that we will do so this time too. Geoengineering might work!

I saw him talk about his book at the Smithsonian Institute and his words were uplifting. Just because we have not come up with the solution yet is not cataclysmic because there are smart people being born every day. Maybe one of them will think of something new. Like a giant air conditioner that moves excess air pollution into space...

Quote from the Amazon webpage about this book:

For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence.

https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Human-Hands-Shaping-Planets/dp/1455589128

https://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/grinspoon

Bees Love our Crepe Myrtle Tree. Blossoms all year round... Helping Wild Bees Survive.

CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/01/bicycle-power-generator-converts-human.html

Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles

ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...

Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to

Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!

https://www.onepeloton.com/company/contact

Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT

What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University

http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_human_energy_converter

I Understand that THOSE PEOPLE OVER THERE have horrible Lives and are in deep trouble but... I'm not going to go visit and fundamentally... I JUST DON'T CARE.

 I live in a Remote Small Town and Our World is Wonderful. THOSE PEOPLE OVER THERE ought to fix their own problems but IF THEY DON'T that's OK too. I have spent the last 20 years of my life in Chico and Eureka, California. Both of those are Isolated College Towns with a quaint downtown district, plenty of parks and free live music/parades in the Summer. 

If I watch TV News, I see that crime is a problem in the Cities... Places like LA, Washington DC and the South Side of Chicago have shootouts between drug gangs and murder is common... None of that happens in our little town... 

If I watch TV News, I see that Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan are having active shooting Wars and Suicide Bombers... Crazy! But, if I Just Change the Channel it all goes away... 

If I watch TV News, I see that GUN NUTS are shooting up Schools, Workplaces and an Outdoor Concert in Las Vegas. Well, I Promise to NOT GO There... I see that the Countries in Central America have self-destructed and the people are walking to TEXAS and Tijuana... I bet that Texans and People living in SoCal are worried... BUT NOT ME... We simply do not have a lot of "Minority Group" people in our towns... Almost everyone is White... and we don't have a lot of Graffiti... 

I did spend many years living in San Jose, California and Gang Members Spray Paint Garbage Symbols all over everything. It's difficult to believe but some people actually believe that Graffiti is a good idea! I'm not making this up! I rode the AMTRAK Train thru Oakland once and the Walls are covered with squiggly crap... Just like Dogs mark their territory by urinating on fire hydrants and bushes... gang members mark their territory by spray painting their name on walls... ARF ARF! I'm Here! ARF ARF! 

THOSE PEOPLE OVER THERE should simply stop doing all that crazy stuff. Just stop it! Behave! OR DON'T... It's Your Life... I'm Changing the Channel!

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

LINK TO ALL MY MUSIC VIDEOS!

Derrick Jensen: Interesting Author and Environmental Activist Philosopher:.. Deep Ecology Thinker... Required Reading at Humboldt State University...

http://www.derrickjensen.org/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy.  http://www.derrickjensen.org/deep-green-resistance/

I saw him at the end of the movie "Stare into the Lights My Pretties" talking while wearing headphones/microphone online... He was making a Youtube Video about how we have to destroy the Computer Networks that have hypnotized us all... It really was Ironic to hear him USING THE MACHINE while recommending that we DESTROY THE MACHINE.

However, I Groked his message... If he stopped using the machine as an individual it would have no effect whatsoever on the coming destruction of civilization...

Great Movie: "Stare into the Lights my Pretties" about the cultural impact of computers and The Internet...

Great Movie: "Stare into the Lights my Pretties" about the cultural impact of computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5qJjNM2Kx0

We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next if this culture is left unchecked, to its end trajectory, and is that what we want? *Stare Into The Lights My Pretties* investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behavior modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleep running into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world.

“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees? What if the point is to taste each other's sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek? What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to the birdsong, to watch the dragonflies hover, to look at your lover's face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze? What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them? What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, to experience things on their own terms? What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, anger when angry, thoughtful when full of thought? What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be?”
― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words

GOP Impeachment Defense Talking Points: The Earth is Flat, tRUMP Did Nothing Wrong and "They" Faked the Moon Landing ---> BENGHAZI <---

When Devin Nunes' Cow is Your Big Gun... 
You in DEEP Doo Doo!

Remember: Turn the SOUND OFF Whenever Jim Jordan Speaks. There is NO CHANCE That He will say Anything of Value and so... Just Mute Him... People say I'm Homophobic Whenever I Criticize Jim Jordan but... EVEN IF HE WAS NORMAL, I would find him to be a SWAMP CREATURE. 

"Our Glorious Leader Can Do No Wrong! Even When He Does Wrong, He Does No Wrong!" - Quotations of Benjamin Ghazi: QAnon Baker

China, If You're Listening... Investigate tRUMP and His Corrupt Family... The Trade War Will END When Elizabeth Warren Becomes President!

MAKE AMERICA GRETA AGAIN Bag for Sale!

100% of My Profits will be Donated to Greenpeace. 

https://www.greenpeace.org/global

MAKE AMERICA GRETA AGAIN LARGE TOTE BAG
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Link to My Most Recent EMBROIDERED Hats 

at My Zazzle Webstore!

"PRESS" EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP For Sale!

A PRESS Hat Might Protect You From Getting Your Head Bashed in By The Police at a Protest March... 

or it Might NOT! 

I Remember People Made Fake T-Shirts That Said: 

"Security - Shoreline Amphitheater" and used them to sneak in to concerts... 

Of Course, You MAY Change The Words... For Example: You Could Walk Around Wearing a Hat That Says: FLOWER POWER or NO NUKES or

ASK ME HOW TO BEAT TRUMP IN 2020... 

and then when they ask... you say... "Like a Pinata!"

PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
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IMPEACH EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
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Complex World Embroidered Baseball Cap
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The Only Real Lines on the Map Are Coastlines... 

I went to an AA Meeting yesterday. It was good. The Subject was Meditation and One of the Steps recommends doing Meditation to Improve your contact with God.

One thing for sure, it is impossible to meditate while drunk. So, AA gives us the opportunity do do things that we would never think of on our own. Most of the people who spoke said that they did meditation but they had no idea if they were doing it right... or if it was doing any good... or doing anything at all... However, all were glad. Some expressed the experience of being in a Stressful Business Meeting and then taking a Break and going for a walk in the woods. Obviously, a good idea... no matter what you call it. 

My own experience is that I "Meditate" during TV Commercials. I turn off the sound, close my eyes and silently say the Serenity prayer while breathing slowly and deeply. MUCH BETTER THAT WATCHING TV COMMERCIALS. I try to avoid people pouring poison in my brain. I always turn off the sound when Trump is Speaking. There is NO CHANCE that he would say anything that would be valuable to me. 

I also walk out onto the back deck at home and Observe the Trees. We have a creek and when there is water I hear Frogs. I try to look, smell, taste, feel and listen to everything. I have no idea where the frogs go in dry weather but after it rains there is a very interesting three dimensional chorus of Croaks. I remember once I experienced the 17 year cicadas in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC. That is an amazing sound. Little grasshoppers flying in random directions chirping. There are waves of sound... I'm not sure if there is any intelligence driving the sound but it appears to ebb and flow like surf at the beach... 

Inflatable Boat ride in Santa Cruz. The Butterfly Trees. The Wharf at Main beach. Steamer's Lane and the Lighthouse surfing museum.

Dad bought an inflatable boat that looked like a canoe from an advertisement in the back of a magazine. It had a sail. Dad and I went down the coast from Santa Cruz going south. We went out beyond the waves and sailed in the open ocean. It was a big adventure for me as a young child. Then we wiped out going thru the waves to the beach. Got Rolled.

Mom and I went to the butterfly trees. It had a grove of eucalyptus trees literally covered with Monarch Butterflies. This grove causes a peaceful easy feeling... most of the butterflies stay motionless while a tiny number flittered back and forth. http://www.santacruz.org/monarch-butterflies

We enjoyed going to the Wharf. At the very end sea lions and seals live underneath. They are really large beasts. Walk to the end of the pier and there are viewing openings so people can watch them.
I've always enjoyed the restaurants that served us clam chowder and crab louis. I could look out the window and see people surfing near the lighthouse in Steamers Lane. Mom told me that Grandpa dove off the very end of the Wharf and swam back to the main beach. I'm not sure why he did that but I guess it was just to see if he could...

Dad and I went on a deep sea fishing boat run by the Stagnaro family. He got seasick and didn't have a good time. We boarded the boat on the Wharf. I don't recall if we caught any fish but it was really fun to be way out in the ocean.

There is a surfing museum in the lighthouse and you can watch the surfers up close from the top of the cliffs. I was always amazed that people could walk over the rocks at the end of the staircase while holding a surfboard... Truly and acrobatic miracle...

Read More of My Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Interesting author: David Grinspoon - Deep Ecology - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.

Yes, we are clever monkeys... We can figure a way to solve our own problems. Looking at our history over millions of years, we have figured out how to survive every time and it's likely that we will do so this time too. Geoengineering might work!

I saw him talk about his book at the Smithsonian Institute and his words were uplifting. Just because we have not come up with the solution yet is not cataclysmic because there are smart people being born every day. Maybe one of them will think of something new. Like a giant air conditioner that moves excess air pollution into space...

Quote from the Amazon webpage about this book:

For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence.

https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Human-Hands-Shaping-Planets/dp/1455589128

https://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/grinspoon