The Green = Agenda

We should all=20 want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call = home. But=20 most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. = We are=20 wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. = Therefore,=20 when we read about groups and organisations calling for a 'green = revolution' and=20 a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with = their=20 ideas.

However, certain aspects of the modern green movement = that is=20 permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the=20 environment. You don=92t have to dig very deep to discover the true = beliefs of the=20 influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment = to=20 promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the=20 implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely=20 express:

(references and sources for the quotes below can be = found=20 here)

"The=20 common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to = unite us, we=20 came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,=20
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All=20 these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only=20 through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be = overcome.
The real=20 enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome, =
premier=20 environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United = Nations

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"We need to get some broad based support,
to = capture the=20 public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary = scenarios,
make=20 simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any=20 doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is = between being=20 effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,=20
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC=20 reports

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"We've got to ride this global warming = issue.
Even if=20 the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right = thing in=20 terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy = Wirth,=20
President of the UN Foundation

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"No matter if the science of global warming is = all=20 phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring = about=20 justice and equality in the world."
- Christine = Stewart,
former=20 Canadian Minister of the Environment

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=93The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our=20 recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate=20 models.=94
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for = Climate=20 Prediction and Research

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=93The models are convenient fictions =
that=20 provide something very useful.=94
- Dr David Frame, =
climate=20 modeler, Oxford University

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"I=20 believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts =
on=20 how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the = audience."
- Al=20 Gore,
Climate Change activist

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"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only = matters what=20 people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of=20 Greenpeace

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"The=20 only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people = with the=20 possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor = Daniel=20 Botkin

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"The = climate crisis is=20 not a political issue, it is a moral and
spiritual challenge to all = of=20 humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global = Consciousness to=20 a higher level."
-=20 Al=20 Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance=20 speech

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"We=20 are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right = major=20 crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive=20 member

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"Humanity=20 is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the
world's = scientists are=20 right, we have just ten years to avert a
major catastrophe that could = send=20 our entire planet's climate system
into a tail-spin of epic = destruction=20 involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer = heat waves=20 beyond anything we have
ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own=20 making."
- Al Gore,
An Inconvenient = Truth

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"We=20 are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,
despite the fact = that most=20 people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James = Hansen,
NASA=20 researcher

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"By the end of this century climate change = will reduce=20 the human
population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the=20 Arctic."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of = Gaia

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"Climate=20 Change will result in a catastrophic global sea = level
rise of=20 seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida = and=20 would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace=20 International

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"This planet is on course for a = catastrophe.
The=20 existence of Life itself is at stake."
- Dr Tim=20 Flannery,
Principal Research Scientist

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"Coal=20 makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming.
It's ruining = our=20 country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. = Senate=20 majority leader

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"Climate Change is the = greatest=20 threat that
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela=20 Merkel,
German Chancellor

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"Climate=20 change is real. Not only is it real, it's here,
and its effects are = giving=20 rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural=20 disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President

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"We=20 simply must do everything we can in our power to
slow down global = warming=20 before it is too late."
- Arnold = Schwarzenegger,
Governor of=20 California

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"Climate=20 change should be seen as the
greatest challenge to ever face=20 mankind."
- Prince Charles

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"Climate=20 change makes us all global citizens,
we are truly all in this=20 together."
- Gordon Brown,
British Prime=20 Minister

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"We have reached the critical moment of = decision on=20 climate change.
Failure to act to now would be deeply and = unforgivably=20 irresponsible.
We urgently require a global environmental=20 revolution."
- Tony Blair,
former British=20 PM

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"We=20 are close to a time when all of humankind
will envision a global = agenda that=20 encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes = of=20 poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the=20 earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth = in the=20 Balance

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"In=20 Nature organic growth proceeds according
to a Master Plan, a = Blueprint. Such=20 a =91master plan=92 is
missing from the = process of growth=20 and development of
the world system. Now is the time to draw up a = master plan=20 for
sustainable growth and world development based on global =
allocation=20 of all resources and a new global economic system.
Ten or twenty = years form=20 today it will probably be too late."
- Club of=20 Rome,
Mankind at the Turning = Point

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"We need a new = paradigm of=20 development in
which the environment will be a priority.
World=20 civilization as we know it will soon end.
We have very little time = and we=20 must act.
If we can address the environmental problem,
it will = have to=20 be done within a new system, a
new paradigm. We have to change our = mindset,=20
the way humankind views the world."
- Mikhail=20 Gorbachev,
founder of Green Cross International

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"The=20 concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,
indeed a sacred = principle=20 of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only = slowly=20 and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental=20 cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance=20 report

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"Democracy=20 is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and
it is unaware of = its own=20 limits. These facts must be faced squarely.
Sacrilegious though this = may=20 sound, democracy is no longer well
suited for the tasks ahead. The=20 complexity and the technical nature
of many of today=92s problems do = not=20 always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at = the=20 right time."
- Club of = Rome,
The=20 First Global Revolution

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"The=20 emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization
and the need for = vigorous=20 action in the interest of the entire global
community will inevitably = have=20 multiple political consequences.
Perhaps the most important of them = will be a=20 gradual change
in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it=20 must
assume some aspects of a world government."
- Mikhail=20 Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum

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"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter = to
be a=20 new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a=20 sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail=20 Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter

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"In my view, after fifty years of service in the = United=20 Nations system,
I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity = for=20 proper
Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the = present=20
political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will = lead to=20 the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore = absolutely and=20 urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN = Assistant=20 Secretary General,

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"Nations=20 are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty
to the = international=20 community and beginning to create a
new system of international=20 environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise = unmanageable=20 crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute

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"Regionalism=20 must precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance=20 from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up = through=20 to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global=20 Governance

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"A=20 keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that
fundamental = changes=20 will have to take place in the world order
and its power structures, = in the=20 distribution of wealth and income.
Perhaps only a new and enlightened = humanism
can permit mankind to negotiate this = transition."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning=20 Point

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"The=20 alternative to the existing world order can only
emerge as a result = of a new=20 human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a = new way=20 of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World=20 Forum

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"We=20 require a central organizing principle - one agreed to = voluntarily.
Minor=20 shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and = regulations,
rhetoric=20 offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms = of
appeasement,=20 designed to satisfy the public=92s desire to believe that
sacrifice, = struggle=20 and a wrenching transformation
of society will not be = necessary."
-=20 Al Gore,
Earth in the = Balance

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"Adopting=20 a central organizing principle...
means embarking on an all-out = effort to use=20 every
policy and program, every law and institution...
to halt = the=20 destruction of the environment."
- Al=20 Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Effective=20 execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all = human=20 society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced a major shift = in the=20 priorities of both
governments and individuals and an=20 unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This=20 shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental = consequences
of=20 every human action be integrated into individual and
collective=20 decision-making at every level."
- UN Agenda=20 21

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"The current course of development is thus = clearly=20 unsustainable.
Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal=20 measures.
More of the same is not enough. Radical change from = the
current=20 trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
Fundamental = economic,=20 social and cultural changes that
address the root causes of poverty = and=20 environmental
degradation are required and they are required = now."
=96=20 from the Earth Charter website

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"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist = society,=20
which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
- = David Brower,
founder of Friends of the = Earth

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"If=20 we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the = world=20 ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound = society=20 under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism" =
- Judi = Bari,
principal organiser=20 of Earth First!

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"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the =
industrialized=20 civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that=20 about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment = Programme

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"A massive campaign must be launched to = de-develop=20 the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic = system into=20 line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource=20 situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population=20 Studies

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"The=20 only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United = States.=20 We can't let other countries have the same
number of cars, the = amount of=20 industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third = World=20 countries right where they are."
- Michael=20 Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund

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"Global Sustainability requires the = deliberate quest=20 of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality=20 control."
- Professor Maurice King

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"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place =
for=20 capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and
plowed = land,=20 halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,
free shackled rivers = and=20 return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled = land."
-=20 David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!

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"Complex=20 technology of any sort is an assault on
human dignity. It would be = little=20 short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, = abundant=20 energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory = Lovins,=20 Rocky Mountain Institute

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"The=20 prospect of cheap fusion energy is the
worst thing that could happen = to the=20 planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis=20 Foundation

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"Giving=20 society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an = idiot=20 child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul = Ehrlich, Stanford University

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"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep = beneath
the=20 surface of the earth is a willful expansion
of our dysfunctional = civilization=20 into Nature."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the=20 Balance

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"The=20 big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too = well=20 economically and burning too much oil."
=96 Sir James=20 Lovelock,
BBC Interview

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"My=20 three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 = million=20 worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure
and see wilderness, = with=20 it=92s full complement of species,
returning throughout the = world."=20
-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth = First!=20

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"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of=20 the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of = fossil=20 fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not=20 sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit=20

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"Mankind=20 is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on = the=20 earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane = Society=20

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"Human=20 beings, as a species,
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of = Earth=20 First! Journal

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"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like=20 a
pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."
- = Sir=20 James Lovelock,
Healing Gaia

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"The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is = Man."
-=20 Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning = Point

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"A=20 cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells;
the population = explosion=20 is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our = efforts from=20 the treatment of the symptoms to
the cutting out of the cancer. The=20 operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless=20 decisions.''
- Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population = Bomb=20

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"I don't claim to have any special interest in = natural history,=20
but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in
the = number=20 of game animals and the need to adjust
the cull to the size of the = surplus=20 population."
- Prince Philip,
preface of=20 Down to Earth

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"A=20 reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society
at the = present North=20 American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more = frugal=20 European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be = possible."
-=20 United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment

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"A=20 total population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from = present=20 levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN = and major=20 UN donor

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"... the resultant ideal sustainable population = is=20 hence
more than 500 million but less than one = billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for = Mankind

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"One=20 America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This = is a=20 terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we = must=20 eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to = say,
but it's=20 just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO=20 Courier

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"If=20 I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer = virus to=20 lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of=20 Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund

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"I=20 suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important = part in=20 balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth = First!=20 Journal

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"The=20 extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good = thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!

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=93The=20 extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not=20 billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will = solve=20 every
problem on Earth - social and environmental.=94
- Ingrid = Newkirk,
former=20 President of PETA

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"Childbearing=20 should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold = a=20 government license.
All potential parents should be required to=20 use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to = citizens=20 chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
first = Executive=20 Director of the Sierra Club

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"The=20 fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon
the emergence = of a new=20 faith in the future.
Armed with such a faith, we might find
it = possible=20 to resanctify the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the = Balance

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"The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists = and=20
scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal = predicament
and=20 then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of
international = crises=20 into the future Utopia of humanist hope."
- Club of=20 Rome,
Goals for Mankind

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"What an incredible planet in the universe this will = be
when=20 we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and = harmony with=20 our divine Earth,
with each other and with the = heavens."
-=20 Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary=20 General

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"The earth is literally our mother, not only because = we depend=20 on
her for nurture and shelter but even more because the = human
species has=20 been shaped by her in the womb of evolution....
Our salvation depends = upon=20 our ability
to create a religion of nature."
- Rene = Dubos,=20
board member, Planetary Citizens

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"Each=20 element, plant, insect, fish and animal
represents a certain aspect = of Gaia's=20 - and our - being.
In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and = awareness
-=20 currently lost in self-destructive madness.
We must acknowledge, = respect and=20 love her for being
the Mother she is to us or we deny our very = selves.=20
Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."
- Prof. Michael J. = Cohen,
Ecopsychologist

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"It=20 is the responsibility of each human being today to
choose between = the force=20 of darkness and the force of light.
We must therefore transform our=20 attitudes, and adopt a renewed
respect for the superior laws of = Divine=20 Nature."
- Maurice = Strong,
first Secretary General of = UNEP

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"The spirit of our planet is stirring!
The = Consciousness of=20 Goddess Earth
is now rising against all odds,
in spite of = millennia of=20 suppression,
repression and oppression inflicted on Her
by a = hubristic=20 and misguided humanity.

The Earth is a living entity, a = biological=20 organism
with psychic and spiritual dimensions.
With the = expansion of=20 the patriarchal religions
that focused on a male God majestically=20
stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the
Universe, the = memory=20 of our planet's innate Divinity
was repressed and banished into the=20
collective unconscious of humanity."
- = Envision=20 Earth

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"Still more important is the = implication that=20 the evolution of
homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness = and=20 his
increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly=20 increased
Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and = aware
of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face = through=20 the
eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting=20 spacecraft.

Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our = capacity
for=20 conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and
drive = are hers=20 to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man
is by no means = fully=20 established; we are not yet a truly collective
species, corralled and = tamed=20 as an integral part of the biosphere,
as we are as individual = creatures. It=20 may be that the destiny of
mankind is to become tamed, so that the = fierce,=20 destructive, and
greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused = into=20 a
compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all
creatures = which=20 constitutes Gaia."
=96 Sir James=20 Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look At Life

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"Little=20 by little a planetary prayer book is
thus being composed by an = increasingly=20 united
humanity seeking its oneness. Once again,
but this = time on a=20 universal scale, humankind is
seeking no less than its reunion with=20 'divine,'
its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus
call = our=20 earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly
see no difference between our = earth=20 and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again=20 upon
humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age
and become = what we=20 were always meant to be:
the planet of god."
- Robert = Muller,=20
UN Assistant Secretary = General

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"What=20 if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin birth = is no=20 miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .
She is of = this=20 Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,
she is the source = of life=20 everlasting and is alive now;
she gave birth to humankind and we are = part of=20 her."
- Sir James Lovelock, =
Ages of=20 Gaia

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"Nature=20 is my god. To me, nature is sacred;
trees are my temples and forests = are my=20 cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Green Cross=20 International

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"The=20 spiritual sense of our place in nature...
can be traced to the = origins of=20 human civilization....
The last vestige of organized goddess = worship
was=20 eliminated by Christianity."
- Al=20 Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Christianity=20 is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the=20 Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, = founder of=20 Animal Rights

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"I=20 pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.
Its water, = land and=20 living things and all its human hearts."
- Global Education=20 Associates,
The Earth Pledge

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"By=20 fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth
in = all its=20 dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of
responsibility = to self=20 to others and to the planet."
- Global Alliance for = Transforming=20 Education

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"The=20 earth is not dead matter. She is alive.
Now begin to speak to the = earth as=20 you walk.
You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your = mind.
Send=20 your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your
heart touching = upon the=20 heart of the planet. Say to her
whatever words come to you: Mother = Earth, I=20 love you.
Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May = all
your=20 creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.
On behalf of the = human race,=20 I ask forgiveness
for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother = Earth"
- US Student Textbook,
"Prayer to = the=20 Earth"

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