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Nothing illustrates the acute ignorance and abject stupidity plaguing domesticated humans (''Homo Domesticus'')<ref>[http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/answers/viewtopic.php?id=4423 Can humans be considered "domesticated"?]</ref><ref>[http://www.evolver.net/node/70226 Human Domestication]</ref><ref>[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Griffin__Human_Domestication__Sickness_of_Seperation.html Human Domestication: Sickness of Separation]</ref><ref>[http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/21 On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics]</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/WADH Wild Animals, Domesticated Humans: the Zoo and Modern Society (2004)]</ref><ref>[https://web.natur.cuni.cz/filosof/images/stories/kleisner/5Kleisner_Stella.pdf Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication] (PDF)</ref><ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/368119 Human Domestication Reconsidered (Helen M. Leach)]</ref> more profoundly than the unrelenting abuse we inflict onto our natural environment. Everything we touch, it seems, turns to toxin.
Nothing illustrates the acute ignorance and abject stupidity plaguing domesticated humans (''Homo Domesticus'')<ref>[http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/answers/viewtopic.php?id=4423 Can humans be considered "domesticated"?]</ref><ref>[http://www.evolver.net/node/70226 Human Domestication]</ref><ref>[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Griffin__Human_Domestication__Sickness_of_Seperation.html Human Domestication: Sickness of Separation]</ref><ref>[http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/21 On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics]</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/WADH Wild Animals, Domesticated Humans: the Zoo and Modern Society (2004)]</ref><ref>[https://web.natur.cuni.cz/filosof/images/stories/kleisner/5Kleisner_Stella.pdf Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication] (PDF)</ref><ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/368119 Human Domestication Reconsidered (Helen M. Leach)]</ref> more profoundly than the unrelenting abuse we inflict onto our natural environment. Everything we touch, it seems, turns to toxin.


We enslave ourselves to a network of deadly energy systems that rips tops off mountains, strip mines huge land tracts, turns northern forests into toxic sludge, poisons our lands, seas and atmosphere, corrupts governments and ordinary people, provokes genocidal conflicts and extinguishes whole species of flora and fauna on an industrial scale. It's an unholy coven of death that demands nothing less than unquestioned loyalty and total servitude from its human subjects.
We enslave ourselves to a network of deadly energy systems that rips tops off mountains<ref>[http://www.ilovemountains.org/resources/ What is Mountaintop Removal?] ([http://www.ilovemountains.org/ iLoveMountains.org])</ref>, strip mines huge land tracts<ref>[[wikipedia:wiki/Surface_mining|Surface mining]] ([[wikipedia:wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia]])</ref>, turns northern forests into toxic sludge<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/sep/07/tarnished-earth-oil-sands Tarnished Earth: the destruction of Canada's boreal forest]</ref>, poisons our lands, seas and atmosphere, corrupts governments and ordinary people, provokes genocidal conflicts and extinguishes whole species of flora and fauna on an industrial scale. It's an unholy coven of death that demands nothing less than unquestioned loyalty and total servitude from its human subjects.


We chain ourselves to a consumerist pseudo culture characterized by an ever accelerating treadmill that efficiently turns nature and living beings into toxic landfills, infertile soils, poisoned waterways and dying oceans.
We chain ourselves to a consumerist pseudo culture characterized by an ever accelerating treadmill that efficiently turns nature and living beings into toxic landfills, infertile soils, poisoned waterways and dying oceans.
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* [http://earthday.cityrepair.org/ City Repair: Earth Day Incorporated]
* [http://earthday.cityrepair.org/ City Repair: Earth Day Incorporated]
* [[wikipedia:wiki/Earth_Day|Earth Day]] ([[wikipedia:wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia]])
* [[wikipedia:wiki/Earth_Day|Earth Day]] ([[wikipedia:wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia]])
* [http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/04/earth-day-matter-stock-2011/ Does Earth Day Matter? Taking Stock of Where We Are in 2011]
* [http://energyactioncoalition.org/ Energy Action Coalition]
* [http://energyactioncoalition.org/ Energy Action Coalition]
* [http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2011 A Billion Acts of Green (&reg;)] - A "people-powered campaign to generate a billion acts of environmental service and advocacy before Rio +20" (as well as a registered trademark).
* [http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2011 A Billion Acts of Green (&reg;)] - A "people-powered campaign to generate a billion acts of environmental service and advocacy before Rio +20" (as well as a registered trademark).
* [http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/12/greenwashings-two-edged-sword/ Greenwashing’s Two-Edged Sword]
* [http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/03/14/OilSandsFight/ In America's Capital, a Fierce Fight over Oil Sands]


'''Human Domestication'''
'''Human Domestication'''
* [http://www.srilankafoundation.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=379:if-modern-humans-are-so-smart-why-are-our-brains-shrinking&catid=97:science-a-technology&Itemid=317 If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?]
* [http://www.srilankafoundation.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=379:if-modern-humans-are-so-smart-why-are-our-brains-shrinking&catid=97:science-a-technology&Itemid=317 If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?]

Revision as of 17:27, 22 April 2011

Bumpy ride.

Nothing illustrates the acute ignorance and abject stupidity plaguing domesticated humans (Homo Domesticus)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] more profoundly than the unrelenting abuse we inflict onto our natural environment. Everything we touch, it seems, turns to toxin.

We enslave ourselves to a network of deadly energy systems that rips tops off mountains[8], strip mines huge land tracts[9], turns northern forests into toxic sludge[10], poisons our lands, seas and atmosphere, corrupts governments and ordinary people, provokes genocidal conflicts and extinguishes whole species of flora and fauna on an industrial scale. It's an unholy coven of death that demands nothing less than unquestioned loyalty and total servitude from its human subjects.

We chain ourselves to a consumerist pseudo culture characterized by an ever accelerating treadmill that efficiently turns nature and living beings into toxic landfills, infertile soils, poisoned waterways and dying oceans.

(More happy talk to come...)

References

  1. ↑ Can humans be considered "domesticated"?
  2. ↑ Human Domestication
  3. ↑ Human Domestication: Sickness of Separation
  4. ↑ On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics
  5. ↑ Wild Animals, Domesticated Humans: the Zoo and Modern Society (2004)
  6. ↑ Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication (PDF)
  7. ↑ Human Domestication Reconsidered (Helen M. Leach)
  8. ↑ What is Mountaintop Removal? (iLoveMountains.org)
  9. ↑ Surface mining (Wikipedia)
  10. ↑ Tarnished Earth: the destruction of Canada's boreal forest

External Links

Earth Day, Ecology, "Sustainability"

Human Domestication

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