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The bad state of our planet
The reasons to believe
Intersections between Poverty, Environment and Inclusive Growth: A Global Per...UNDP Policy Centre
Presentation by Ms. Leisa Perch from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) at the II National Development Conference (CODE/IPEA). This presentation is based on largely on IPC-IG's Poverty in Focus magazine #23 and speaks to four key areas/messages: (i) Intersections of environmental risk and poverty and social risk and the environment are fundamental to the inclusiveness of growth; (ii) Both structural and situational in nature, they require solutions that focus on both participation and benefit-sharing; (iii)
Relevant policy innovations exist and need to be up-scaled; (iv) A focus on the quality of growth will be key in sustaining progress.
New democratic movements for global regeneration_driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity and bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation and usher in a new era of human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
Intersections between Poverty, Environment and Inclusive Growth: A Global Per...UNDP Policy Centre
Presentation by Ms. Leisa Perch from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) at the II National Development Conference (CODE/IPEA). This presentation is based on largely on IPC-IG's Poverty in Focus magazine #23 and speaks to four key areas/messages: (i) Intersections of environmental risk and poverty and social risk and the environment are fundamental to the inclusiveness of growth; (ii) Both structural and situational in nature, they require solutions that focus on both participation and benefit-sharing; (iii)
Relevant policy innovations exist and need to be up-scaled; (iv) A focus on the quality of growth will be key in sustaining progress.
New democratic movements for global regeneration_driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity and bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation and usher in a new era of human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
New democratic movements for global regeneration driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity, bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation, human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
The Neoliberal Colonization on Nature and Our Deep Ecological Selves
Presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators Annual Conference in November 2014 in Tucson, AZ.
Presented at the March 26, 2015 SEPS-GC meeting at CCSU. The focus is on the nature-based forms of discrimination that form social discriminations and lead us to issues of unsustainability. This is a modified presentation from my NAME presentation in November 2014.
David Hulme presentation at a Your Manchester Insights Event for University of Manchester Alumni.
David Hulme discusses what is getting worse in development, what is getting better, and what we can do to alleviate the doom and gloom.
People are living longer, global GDP has risen by over 300% and extreme poverty has been reduced by over half, yet discourse is dominated by doom and gloom. Improvements in the economy, social policy and politics have lead to these improvements but there is still much to be done on inequality, and climate change.
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Stategy of nonviolent action; End and means; analysis of the situation; choosing an objective and an organisation; first negotiations; reaching out to public opinion; give an ultimatum; direct actions; constructive program; playing with repression; final negociations
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Righteous among the Nations
Are categorised in these slides the people who took the greatest risks during the Second World War to protect and save people threatened by the Nazi regime, in particular the Jews.
New democratic movements for global regeneration driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity, bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation, human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
The Neoliberal Colonization on Nature and Our Deep Ecological Selves
Presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators Annual Conference in November 2014 in Tucson, AZ.
Presented at the March 26, 2015 SEPS-GC meeting at CCSU. The focus is on the nature-based forms of discrimination that form social discriminations and lead us to issues of unsustainability. This is a modified presentation from my NAME presentation in November 2014.
David Hulme presentation at a Your Manchester Insights Event for University of Manchester Alumni.
David Hulme discusses what is getting worse in development, what is getting better, and what we can do to alleviate the doom and gloom.
People are living longer, global GDP has risen by over 300% and extreme poverty has been reduced by over half, yet discourse is dominated by doom and gloom. Improvements in the economy, social policy and politics have lead to these improvements but there is still much to be done on inequality, and climate change.
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Stategy of nonviolent action; End and means; analysis of the situation; choosing an objective and an organisation; first negotiations; reaching out to public opinion; give an ultimatum; direct actions; constructive program; playing with repression; final negociations
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Righteous among the Nations
Are categorised in these slides the people who took the greatest risks during the Second World War to protect and save people threatened by the Nazi regime, in particular the Jews.
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Citizens involvement
Fighting against exclusion and inequalities
Reinforcing democracy
Improving social consultation
Foreign policy oriented at disarmament and sustained development
Disarmament
Strategy of nonviolent action
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Non-armed resitance in Czechoslovakia August 1968
Prague spring
Improvisation
clandestine radios
demoralisation of occupation soldiers
capitulation of leaders.
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An alternative to armed defence
Defence, a vital function
Dealing with new threats
Alternative to armed defence
Conventional defence
Armed popular defence
nuclear defence.
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warlike violence; XXth century bloddbath; dictatorships, massacrs and genocides; violence of an economic system; human sacrifices, crusades, slavery, torture, wars of religion, duel, conquests, racial segregation, etc.
Human rights, international tribunals, responsability to protect,
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The duty to educate to nonviolence; law and rule; authority; transgression; education for a constructive resolution of conflicts; mediation.
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Democracy, citizenship and nonviolence
The 3 facets of an individual in a relation; rights and duties; the common good, commons; subsisiarity; economy, ecology and politics; ethics and politics
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Antiquity
Christianity
Renaissance
19 th century
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The desire of revenge; characteristics of forgiveness; examples of forgiveness and reconciliation between people and between groups;
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Non-armed resustance in Europ during 2nd World War
Nonviolence towards Hitler ?
Civil resistance in Genmany
Norway, North Europe
Reistance against Jew's arrest
France
Factors of vulnerability.
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Dynamics and factors of transition from armed struggle to nonviolent resistance.
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Agriculture, industry, international trade, territorial planning, fight against exclusion, education, defence, international relations, rediscovering wisdom
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Actors of nonviolence born between 1910 and 1929.
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Civil nonviolent resitance agianst terrorism
Norway
Belgium
France
Denmark
Tunisia
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Nonviolent communication : role, attitude, process
Mediation : role, steps, attitude
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Thinkers and actors of non-violence born since 1950.
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What is nonviolence ?
Defining nonviolence, clarifying a few concepts, philosophy of nonviolence, stategy of nonviolent action, political nonviolence
Introduction to nonviolence
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Research in Europe and the USA
Non-collobaration principle applied to defence
What risks, what adversaries today ?
Making society uncontrolable
Making our will inflexible
Following whitout being exploited
Stategy of nonviolent action
New lecture created for Texas A&M member Tarleton, a really great class focusing on internaitonal reality and what we can know about it and do about it.
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIOLOGYAGENDAS FOR THETWENTY-FIR.docxpbilly1
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIOLOGY:
AGENDAS FOR THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
JOE R, FEAGIN
University of Florida
The world's peoples face daunting challenges in the
twenty-first century. While apologists herald the globaliza-
tion of capitalism, many people on our planet experience
recurring economic exploitation, immiseration, and envi-
ronmental crises linked to capitalism's spread. Across the
globe social movements continue to raise the issues of
social justice and democracy. Given the new century's
serious challenges, sociologists need to rediscover their
roots in a sociology committed to social justice, to cultivate and extend the long-
standing "countersystem" approach to research, to encourage greater self-reflection
in sociological analysis, and to re-emphasize the importance ofthe teaching of soci-
ology. Finally, more sociologists should examine the big social questions of this
century, including the issues of economic exploitation, social oppression, and the
looming environmental crises. And, clearly, more sociologists should engage in the
study of alternative social futures, including those of more just and egalitarian soci-
eties. Sociologists need to think deeply and imaginatively about sustainable social
futures and to aid in building better human societies.
WE STAND today at the beginning ofa challenging new century. Like
ASA Presidents before me, I am conscious
of the honor and the responsibility that this
address carries with it, and I feel a special
obligation to speak about the role of sociol-
ogy and sociologists in the twenty-first cen-
tury. As we look forward, let me quote W. E.
B. Du Bois, a pathbreaking U.S. sociologist.
In his last autobiographical statement, Du
Bois (1968) wrote:
Direct correspondence to Joe R. Feagin, De-
partment of Sociology, Box 117330, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, (feagin®
ufl.edu). I would like to thank the numerous col-
leagues who made helpful comments on various
drafts of this presidential address. Among these
were Hernan Vera, Sidney Willhelm, Bernice
McNair Barnett, Gideon Sjoherg, Anne Rawls,
Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill, Patricia
Lengermann, Jill Niebrugge-Brantley, Tony
Orum, William A. Smith, Ben Agger, Karen
Pyke, and Leslie Houts.
[TJoday the contradictions of American civi-
lization are tremendous. Freedom of politi-
cal discussion is difficult; elections are not
free and fair. . . . The greatest power in the
land is not thought or ethics, but wealth. . . .
Present profit is valued higher than future
need. . . . I know the United States. It is my
country and the land of my fathers. It is still
a land of magnificent possibilities. It is still
the home of noble souls and generous
people. But it is selling its birthright. It is
betraying its mighty destiny. (Pp. 418-19)
Today the social contradictions of Ameri-
can and global civilizations are still im-
mense. Many prominent voices tell us that it
is the best of times; other voices insist that it
is the worst of t.
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La nécessité d'une défense, les fonctions de la défense, faire face aux menaces nouvelles, pacifisme et antimilitarisme, défense du territoire, défense de la population, défense conventionnelle, défense populaire armée, dissuasion nucléaire,
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Human activities, particularly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, have significantly altered the natural carbon cycle, leading to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and driving climate change. Understanding the intricacies of the carbon cycle is essential for assessing the impacts of these changes and developing effective mitigation strategies.
By studying the carbon cycle, scientists can identify carbon sources and sinks, measure carbon fluxes, and predict future trends. This knowledge is crucial for crafting policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions, enhancing carbon storage, and promoting sustainable practices. The carbon cycle's interplay with climate systems, ecosystems, and human activities underscores its importance in maintaining a stable and healthy planet.
In-depth exploration of the carbon cycle reveals the delicate balance required to sustain life and the urgent need to address anthropogenic influences. Through research, education, and policy, we can work towards restoring equilibrium in the carbon cycle and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.
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Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
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State of the planet and reasons to believe
1. State of the planet
and reasons to believe
Étienne Godinot
Translation : Claudia McKenny-Engström
15.01.2016
2. The planet is…
• … in a very
preoccupying state,
• but there are reasons
to believe and act
3. The state of our planet
Major ecological crisis
-pollution of the air, water courses, seas, soil
-destruction of our ecosystems
-resource depletion (fishing resources,
forests, ground waters, ores and fossil
energies)
-severe attacks on biodiversity
- climate change
4. The state of our planet
This ecological crisis is provoked by technological
power and the homo sapiens sapiens’ excesses
(or homo demens?),
his lack of spirituality and common sense, and his
links with the universe.
The way of producing and consuming initiated by
western countries – and largely copied by China,
India, etc. – is incompatible with the planet’s
resources.
5. The state of our planet
A financial and economic crisis
stemming from the rapaciousness
and irresponsibility of banks,
but which causes are much deeper
(e.g. :
- financialisation of economy,
- gap between financial
transactions and real economy,
- speculation on raw materials,
etc.).
6. The state of our planet
Food crisis
-loss of agricultural land (urbanisation, roads,
water and wind erosion due to the suppression
of hedges, etc.) and deforestation,
-disappearance of agricultural know-how,
-disappearance of biodiversity,
- disappearance of farmers
7. The state of our planet
Food crisis
•devastating effect of the liberalisation
of the food market: invasion of
southern markets by subsidised food
production from industrialised
countries (wheat, industrial production,
poultry, etc.)
•careless development of agrofuels for
vehicles to the detriment of man’s food
8. The state of our planet
Food crisis
- regression of family and farmer
agriculture in favour of
agribusiness, namely animal feed,
and encouraged by States in spite
of its social and environmental
drawbacks, since it generates
taxes and cash.
9. The state of our planet
• In the South
Expropriation of tribal populations
by multinational firms (mining,
agriculture, forests, tourism) with
the agreement or passivity of
public authorities.
Millions of uprooted men, women and
children, deprived from their basic
needs, wander about increasing
the population in African, South
American and Asian slums.
10. The state of our planet
When deprivation replaces poverty
Poverty – frugality, simplicity, rusticity –
has been man’s most ordinary
condition for millenaries.
It was integrated in a culture of
autonomy and solidarity, joy of living
and beauty.
11. The state of our planet
When deprivation replaces poverty
The so-called “development” has suppressed
ancient skills and subsistence networks.
Hundreds of thousands of human beings are
progressively being uprooted from their
traditional way of life and from their natural
and human environments where they lived in
sobriety, but also in dignity, from the fruit of
their work.
12. The state of our planet
• 1,4 billion human beings do not have
access to running water.
• 1 billion do not know how to read and
write.
• 20 % of the world’s population
possesses 80 % of the world’s wealth.
• The help given by rich countries is
inadequate both in quantity and
quality, and does not stop or
compensate the damages resulting
from a predatory economic system.
13. The state of our planet
Rich countries on the other hand, suffer from a
“meaning crisis” provoked by
the over-consumption and the depravation of others,
the deficit of spiritual life,
individualism :
- exacerbated competition in all dimensions of life
(economy, education, sport),
- occultation of the reality of old age and death,
- out-of-control technology following no ethical rules
- identitarian closure, etc.
14. The state of our planet
In rich countries, poverty and deprivation
remain and even progress (economic
inequalities, handicaps, exclusions,
discriminations).
Not being able to cover for one’s own basic
needs (housing, food, health care, transport,
expression, security) generates a feeling of
helplessness.
15. The vicious circle of exclusion
lack of education
and training,
of qualification
school failure,
illiteracy
Health problems
or addictions
family problems,
divorce,
single parenting
lack of money,
palliatives that lead
to drifting, debt
Housing
problems
feeling of failure,
incapacityunemployment,
inactivity,
poverty
16. The state of our planet
Individuals’ malaise
and society’s malaise
are inseparable :
-race for power,
-seduction of “the having”,
- deficit of meaning
17. The state of our planet
Domination, race for power,
race for weapons :
the world’s military spending
today represents 1 300
billion dollars.
18. The state of our planet
Seduction of “the having” and
material wealth :
the world’s spending in
advertisement represent more
than 700 billion dollars.
19. The state of our planet
Competition among each other or
with ourselves, no future, life
without goal, deficit of meaning :
the traffic of narcotics represents
600 billion per year.
20. New risks
Today, the risks of aggression, destabilisation or control of our
societies are new :
- assassinations and attacks by terrorist organizations like
Daech
- risk of coup or power accession by authoritarian or dictatorial
regime, grounded on an ideology of exclusion or xenophobia,
for instance following a serious food, economic, financial,
social and/or ecological crisis.
Photos :
-The Flag of the terrorist Islamic organization Daech
-Economic crisis today, that has only just begun.
21. Reasons to believe
- Fall of dictatorships (Latin America,
Philippines, USSR, Eastern Europe), of the
apartheid in South Africa, of corrupt regimes
(Tunisia);
- Construction of a political society at global
level (UN, Europe, Conference of Rio, Kyoto,
etc.);
- Irruption of the unexpected, including in
politics.
22. Reasons to believe
- The Arab Spring that started in
December 2010 : Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,
Bahrein, Yemen, Syria. Tunisia is today
the only country in which it lasted.
- The Indignados movement : Spain,
Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, the
UK, Belgium, Greece, the USA, which
consequences are difficult to evaluate.
23. Irruption of improbable
Edgar Morin gives examples :
•Improbable victory of the little Athenian democracy over
the great Persian empire, giant with clay feet;
•Improbable victory of the Christians over the Roman
empire (although a false victory, since it perverted
Christianity, which became the ally of political power…);
•Improbable victory of the Enlightment philosophy over
monarchy;
•Victory of the allies over Nazi Germany, improbable
until 1941. The French National Council of the
Resistance had even written, at the heart of the war, a
new social pact for the future.
Photos : Voltaire, Jean Moulin
24. Irruption of improbable
- Election of Vaclav Havel (1993) and Nelson Mandela
(1994), shortly after their release from prison, where they
had been detained as political prisoners.
- Election of a black man to the presidency of the USA in
2008.
- In 1960, Che Guevara asked Fidel Castro : “ When will
the USA recognise Cuba ?”, and Fidel Castro answered :
“ When they elect a black president and the Pope is
Argentinian !”.
Photos : Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Barak Obama, pope Francis
25. Reasons to believe
- Awareness of the gravity of the situation by
public opinion,
- Awareness of the role of women in
changing society,
- Emergence of a new spirituality and “citizen
interiority”,
- Intercultural and interreligious dialogue.
26. Reasons to believe
- New concepts to think and act (human
development index, carbon
compensation, social and environmental
responsibility of corporates, socially
responsible investments, etc.),
- New entrepreneurship models,
- NGO and alternative movements’
alliance.
27. Reasons to believe
- Reflection on a deep process of
change
- Awareness of the necessity of
action on three levels :
• personal transformation,
• quality of daily human relationships
in living environments and at work,
• societal change.
Photo : Patrick Viveret, Edgar Morin, Nicolas
Hulot
28. Reasons to believe
- New citizen, consumer
behaviours (recycling, car-
sharing, social tourism, etc.)
- Fast linking and mobilisation and
citizens via Internet and social
media
29. Reasons to believe
The film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie
Laurent released in 2015 explores the
world, seeking solutions capable of
saving our planet and humanity.
From the most accomplished
experiences in all fields (agriculture,
energy, industry, housing, economy,
democracy, education),
in diverse countries (France and the
Reunion Island, Denmark, Finland,
Belgium, India, the UK and USA,
Sweden and Iceland),
they present a possible future.
30. Reasons to believe
At the forefront of new schemes of
thought and means of action
can be found nonviolent
settlement of conflicts.
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Photos : M. K. Gandhi, Rajagopal PV