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Laurel W.

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AZ, USA
female
single
Speaks: English, Rusty French with a pocket dictionary
Joined May 28, 2008


 
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"Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations."
— Sigmund Jahn, German cosmonaut



Chenrezig, Buddha of Compassion



Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.



"The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also."
- Albert Schweitzer, physician/Nobel Laureate.




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Practice ethical buying and selling!

Put your energy into what works and withdraw if from what doesn't. By withdrawing your power from institutions that are functionally evil, they will collapse of their own negativity. Use your money and energy to build a world that works for everyone!


You can't eat money!


"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the Earth."
--Henry Beston







We are in the largest mass extinction of plant and animal life since the death of the dinosaurs. Humans are the root cause.


"Humans are now exploiting 20% more renewable resources than can be replaced each year...It would require the natural resources equivalent to 4 more Planet Earths to sustain the projected 2050 population of 9 billion people."

-- World Wildlife Fund and Worldwatch Institute in Washington





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3 humans are added to Earth per second,
200,000 humans per day, a Dallas or Detroit every 4 days, a Los Angeles every 3 weeks, 80 million humans per year, a Mexico every 1 1/2 years, an Africa every 10 years...


(These numbers are after subtracting deaths).

Our choices now are determining the future of those who cannot defend themselves.  Please help them!

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By 2030 it is estimated there will be a billion people without food, water or electricity.



"Our food reserves are at a 50-year low but, by 2030, we need to be producing 50 per cent more food. At the same time, we will need 50 per cent more energy and 30 per cent more fresh water."
--Prof John Beddington, British government's chief
scientist.







The supreme selfishness of not thinking or caring about the consequences of one's actions carried on for generations has created a world of scarcity of food and water, habitat destruction and mass extinction of species.



Support spay and neuter programs for humans!






http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idiocracy


Lots of people say they love the world, care about children, the environment...
but then their actions don't line up.




Terminators having sex....



The modern household is the new tyranny.


It has taken 3.5 billion years for this biodiversity to evolve. The natural rate of extinction 1 species per year. The present rate is 1 per hour due to human activities.
http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec01/b65lec01.htm




Human population increase
directly related to species extinctions.


Scientists say a meteor caused the extinction of the dinosaurs....




But a meteor hasn't hit Earth this time...
It's much more insidious.



Current Calamity




All of those who argue about human rights need to include animal rights in their argument and try to explain the humanity of destroying entire species. Explain our unwillingness to simply use birth control. Humans are not #1.


There is no humanity in overpopulating the planet and destroying our ecosystem.




World Population Counter...
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

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"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim."
--Martin Luther King Jr.



Who are you going to believe MLK or the Pope?






Stop us already!
http://www.overpopulation.org/
http://www.populationconnection.org/
http://www.npg.org/
http://www.stopoverpopulation.org/
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/




Most people will say...






They think someone else will fix it.





It is time to take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
There is no cosmic babysitter.



This is the way to enlightenment!


Seriously, take a chill pill!





Can't afford condoms, the pill or being snipped? "Birth Control Glasses!"





Family planning should be the #1 goal of every country and every man and woman should have access to birth control and FREE sterilization!


5 Stages of Collapse...
http://reasonradionetwork.com/?p=2490






The U.N.'s panel of scientists has stated the world has between 3-5 years to curb global warming in order to to avoid a major crisis.


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Eating meat is more damaging to the ecosystem than driving a car. It creates more global warming, consumes large amounts of water and creates more pollution.




A recent United Nations report concluded that the meat industry causes almost 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation systems — that means all of the globe’s cars, trucks, planes and ships combined!


Without fossil fuels we can only support 1/4 to 1/2 a billion people.


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We hit peak oil in 2020!

(announced by IEA)

What does this mean???

It =s mass starvation.

Before the oil runs out, it becomes so expensive to pump, it isn't affordable and people cannot afford food or gas!
Our entire civilization hinges on oil and we have almost no time to fix this.

Buckle up kids, daddy’s puttin' the hammer down!

Here's a way out!
Picken's Plan
http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/


"If this car drive into a group of gypsies, will there be any damage to the car?"
--Borat 






We are imploding the ecosystem!






This is the situation peeps....


We are in the largest mass extinction since the death of dinosaurs.

We are losing species at a rate 17,000 to 100,000 a year (depending on whose numbers are used); a worldwide implosion of plant and animal life that has only been equaled 5 times in the past 5 billion years, the last time being the death of the dinosaurs. Animal farming for human consumption is the #1 cause.

Read about how the meat industry is destroying the water supply!
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp


We consume more than 50% of the planet’s available fresh water leaving all other species of plants and animals to compete for what is left.

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70% of ocean fish stocks are “fully exploited”--DEAD or “overfished.”
Dead dude, as in no more, ceased to be.

The world’s oceans have lost over 90% of large predatory fish.

--U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization


 So what you're saying is birth control is bad?  





More than 75% of the topsoil that existed world-wide when Europeans first colonized America is now gone. It takes, on average, 400 years for a forest to create a foot of topsoil that is capable of sustaining crops.
People will go hungry if we cut down the forests?
uh huh.

 So what you are saying is I should keep wiping my butt with virgin forest toilet paper?

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NO!...get rid of your bad juju!
Use 100% post consumer recycled toilet paper and tissue!

Join Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Environmentalism with teeth!
http://ran.org/


72 acres of rainforest are destroyed every minute, mostly by impoverished people working for multinational corporations, who are cutting and burning the forest to create agricultural or pasturelands to grow beef for export to the United States.
This 38-million-acres-per-year loss will wipe out the entire world’s rainforest in our children’s lifetimes if it continues at its current pace.


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The rainforests supply about 40% of our oxygen and are considered the Earth's lungs. They house 2/3 of the Earth's species of plants and animals.


But the 99 cent burgers are so good!
--Here have some of this poison Kool-Aid....




What I'm saying is...
It's just not on man...aka...no go.



Oxygen good.
  Deforestation bad.


Stop eating beef and KFC---#1 destroyer of the Brazilian Rainforest.
They suck! Do not eat them!





fo' shizzle my nizzle


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MEET YOUR MEAT!

Convenience, greed and addiction are not worth the suffering they cause. Look into the horror of the world and end it by ending in yourself!

This is one of the worst forms of evil in the world and it must be stopped once and for all. This should not exist. 







"Animals raised for food account for 98% of a
ll animal abuse and killing in the world."



"More than 55 billion land animals are killed for food each year - that's 150 million/day."
 The suffering this represents is staggering.



"From birth, they are caged & crowded, deprived & drugged, manhandled & mutilated."


"90% of the animals humans are consuming live in horrible factory farms where they never go outside, live in crowded conditions and have no quality of life. Almost all of them are slaughtered while fully conscious."


And animal testing for our luxury products like cosmetics and cigaretttes....

If you don't read your labels this is what you are doing....

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It's not worth it.



Please, for their sake...

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Disengage from degradation of life as an act of love and it will improve your consciousness and improve life itself. This horror will exist as long as you give it power.



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GO VEG!


Organic Consumers Association Petitions:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/oca/campaign.jsp?
campaign_KEY=1409

Humane Society U.S Petitions!

http://www.hsus.org/farm/



Help stop this insanity now!

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http://www.uwkillsanimals.com/maternaldep.htm




They have no voice.
They can't organize.
They need our help for their freedom.



Please help them!
http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=advocacy_center


Enlightenment the easy way...
or the hard way grasshopper?






We are in the age of consequences...
It's time for the human race to grow the hell up!







Sustainability:
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs--add to this definition plants and animals and their future generations!


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Live Earth/SOS/7.7.07
Campaign for a Climate in Crisis
http://www.liveearth.org/


What is your Earth impact?

Use the Earth Conservation Plan Calculator and learn ways to reduce your impact on the environment
.
http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/


100% Replanted; Replant what you use.

http://www.replanttrees.org/


Save trees and reduce C02 emissions.
Reclaim your mailbox.

100+ million trees destroyed annually for junk mail.

http://www.41pounds.org


Free Vegetarian Starter Kit!
Free Veg Starter Kit



Environmental reasons to go vegan or vegetarian!
ttp://vegetarian.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/
XJ&sdn=vegetarian&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fgoveg.com%2F

veganism_environment.asp

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/environment.htm
http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/index




"If you control the oil you control the country. If you control food, you control the population." --Henry Kissinger



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We are going to try a word association.
I'll say a word and you say the first thing that comes to your mind.




MONSANTO
EVIL!!!

MONSANTO
POISON
MONSANTO
HATE





I think we've discovered the source of your repressed anger!


Millions against Monsanto petition!
http://www.geocities.com/arthurtesla/peoplespeak.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm

Douglas MacArthuer... We are going to stop Monsanto
We are going to stop Monsanto!


The Food Revolution:
How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

What can we do to help stop global warming, feed the hungry, prevent cruelty to animals, avoid genetically modified foods, be healthier and live longer? Eat vegan or vegetarian foods!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573247022/
qid%3D993219486/sr%3D1-1/ref%3Dsc%5Fb%5F1/104-

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An Inconvenient Truth

http://www.climatecrisis.net/



The 11th Hour
http://11thhouraction.com/signupgclid=CN2Cg4PUuo4
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/index.html




http://veg-tv.info/Earthlings

Please watch!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142


Buddha praying for the animals.

Compassion: The deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it; mercy and tenderness of heart.
The opposite of compassion is indifference.

Thank you to all vegans and vegetarians for living and breathing compassion.
Compassion, like love is expressed in the intimate details of how we live our lives.

 
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Hometown Phoenix, AZ 
Homepage  
Birthday Feb 01  
Languages English, Rusty French with a pocket dictionary  
About Me
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  Lifestyle
Pets kitty  
Activist Aspirations Rabid
Political Leaning Depends
Religions It's between me and God  
Eating Habits :) Choose love, Vegan/Vegetarian foods!, Organic, locally grown food, Smoothies, Lots of green and black teas, Raw foods  
Wild Fact About Me I always hope the bull wins the bull fight.
My Philosophy Earth is not a Motel 6 rental planet.
Humans are not #1.

I am here to take a stand against the ruthless exploitation of other sentient beings.
What Gives Me Hope Love your lips coconut pistacio lip balm and cinnamon and clove toothpaste.

Those who choose love over indifference.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by Celebrate a day of love and forgiveness.
What/who changed my life and why The Plague by Albert Camus. Dr. Rieux was an atheist doctor who lost his wife to the plague yet still worked to help others regardless. His morals were not based on fear or God. His morals were based on doing what he believed to be right. He had compassion.

Jinidra Jain, teacher--because he opened my eyes to global responsibility.
What Bugs Me Disrespect for life, Urban sprawl, People who care only for themselves, Religious fundamentalist extremists, Corporations like Exxon and Monsanto, Destruction of the environment, The consumer mentality, Factory farms  
Passions Protecting life on Earth, Raising consciousness, Art, Architecture, Humor, Music and dancing, Body work/healing, Green living, Nature, Books  
Inspirations Love, Art, Unabashed expression, Vulnerability, The mysterious nature of the universe, Synchroncity, Visionaries and geniuses, Groups like Sea Shepherd, To fulfill my purpose on Earth, The beauty of nature  
What Scares Me Human overpopulation, People who have no compassion, Society's cheese, has slid off the cracker, Idiocracy  
  Favorites
Role Models My Grandmother, Werner Erhard, Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela  
Quotation Martin Luther King Jr. regarding his eulogy...

Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize--that isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I have 300 or 400 other awards--that's not important. Tell him not to mention where I went to school... I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to love somebody.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It is really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

--Erica Jong (American writer and feminist, 1942)
Interests Hiking, Sustainability, Traveling to sacred sites, Science, Spirituality/Philosophy, Art, Architecture/Design, Humor, Music, Body/personal care  
Books Stalking the Wild Pendulum, Prometheus Rising, Cosmic Trigger, Cutting edge theories, Books that are occult or banned, Brave New World, Faith and Compassion--Mother Teresa, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, The Alchemist, The Biology of Transcendence  
Music Led Zepplin, The Strokes, Bauhaus, Planet Drum, bmj, Radiohead, Natasha Atlas, Loop Guru, Hotel Costes, Plants and Animals, The Shins, The Dandy Warhols, The Little Rabbits, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sublime, godspeed you black emperor!, White Stripes, Modest Mouse  
Movies What the Bleep, Wes Anderson movies, I Heart Huckabees, Lost in Translation, Investigation into the Invisible World, Ed Wood, Jay and Silent Bob movies, Lock Stock, Wings of Desire, Cinema Paradiso, Eternal Sunshine, Office Space, Amelie, Secretary  
TV Shows Curb, Bored to Death, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bill Maher Real Time, Monty Python, Black Adder, The Office (BBC), Chapelle's Show, The Green, Colbert Report, What Not to Wear, Jackass, Iconoclasts  
Favorite Foods Thai, Indian, Mediterranean/Greek, Japanese, Mexican  
Favorite Places The sky, Sedona/Oak Creek Canyon AZ, woods and forests, Oceans and beaches  
Can't Live Without Silence, Beauty, Art, Music, Good food, Love, Sunshine  
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Call to Service!
(Jan 17) "Life's persistent and most urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" --Martin Luther King, Jr. This is what change looks ... more »
2009 Honey Bee and Pollinator Conferences
(Jan 4) The third annual National Pollinator Week will be held from June 22-28th. It's not too early to start thinking about an event at your ... more »
Buy 100% Organic Food to Save Bees!
(Dec 9) Pesticides and Genetically Modified Foods are implicated in deaths of honey bees! If you buy 100% organic you will not be killing t... more »
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