Whereas man then has often created a god made in his own image and ignored the holy mandate of freedom to express the magnificent reality of his own God-Self, man can still, if he wills it so, on any given day of his life shift his polarity from the point of bondage to that of dynamic freedom. Some concepts are so little that they flit across the wind as fireflies in a swamp; but whatever their size it must be recognized that men’s ideas and even their imaginations are either stripes of bondage or joy-bursts of true freedom that like whitefire magic cut across lines of force and old encrusted momentums to give human beings the joy of the magnificent God-concept of what freedom really is….
During my lifetime as Francis Bacon when the Shakespearean plays were released, embodying at times those cloud-capped ideas of the Spirit and then again entering into the arrows and slings of outrageous fortune, I delivered to the world both censure and praise--praise for the beauty to be found in the soul which God planted there in bejeweled splendor and blame for the old “follow-the-leader” concepts whereby men of fear write their own epitaphs in infamy.
We admire the brave men and women of freedom who have thought first not of self but of God-good for humanity, whose faith, reaching toward the stars, has perceived with clarity the need to act at special times and not to create senseless delays….
What man requires then is not a simple formula or system of affirmation and denial to disprove the existence of the material universe, as though by mere thought he could alter the creation, but the knowledge of that power which will transmute the frozen energies of the world whether dense or ethereal into light and love and truth. When this is accomplished then freedom is born and radiates from within both matter and Spirit. And as the swelling billows roll the tides of time and eternity passing in review before the screen of mortal consciousness, the Infinite bides His time and extends His canopy of awareness over all. This infinite Spirit of God that broods over the waters governs also the ultimate destiny of man….
Life is not meant to be a vale of trial but a veil of triumph wherein the spirit of Christ-truth, perceiving the blueprint of universal reality, seizes the luminous orb of destiny and casts down the despairs of life as it raises the banner of freedom within the souls of men. P
Last year Carlos Nobre argued in an article written with celebrated American conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy that the Amazon tipping point could happen in eastern, southern and central Amazonia when 20% to 25% of the rainforest has been felled – not expected for 20 to 25 years. He has since brought forward his prediction by about five years. “The Amazon is already 17% deforested, so when you calculate at the current rate of deforestation, this 20% to 25% is reached in 15 to 20 years,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-rainforest-close-to-irreversible-tipping-point
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3-12-19 Charlotte Streck, a co-founder and the director of Climate Focus, the thinktank behind the report, said: “We need to keep our trees and we need to restore our forests. Deforestation has accelerated despite the pledges that have been made.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/deforestation-world-losing-area-forest-size-of-uk-each-year-report-finds
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo rates of deforestation have doubled in the past five years….In Africa much of the demand for logging comes from China, which has taken a strategic interest in the continent, buying land and doing resource deals with governments in exchange for internal investment and development cash.
“African timber is exported to China, and this is one of the three dominant causes of deforestation. China could act on illegal timber and be very effective, for instance if the Chinese government put in a requirement on tracing [timber and forest goods],” said Streck….
Globally much of the economic pressure that drives deforestation comes from consumers’ increasingly unhealthy eating habits. Demand for meat drives demand for cheap animal feed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/deforestation-damage-goes-beyond-amazon
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11-27-2013 For only — wait for it — $22 million, you can purchase 3,127 acres of beautiful koa cloud forest on Hawaii’s Big Island. The cloud forest, which is characterized by persistent low-level clouds, covers almost five square miles on the slopes of Mauna Kea and contains more than 50,000 trees. (For you tree lovers, this includes koa, ohia, mamane, hapuu, and eucylyptus trees.)
The property also boasts several private waterfalls — just to sweeten the deal. Real estate brokers are calling the property the third largest privately-owned old-growth koa forest on Earth. It’s zoned as a conservation resource and, given the scarcity of ancient koa (a prized Hawaiian hardwood that is endemic to the islands), the property is most definitely a rare find. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaii-koa-forest-for-sal_n_4347003
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II, i, 9. Who can improve shall possess. This concerns lands, forests and waters. All mechanical achievements and various types of inventions are subject to the same principle. Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1925
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630. One must bear in mind that people have destroyed the resources of Earth without mercy. They are ready to poison the earth and air. They have laid waste the forests, these storehouses of prana. They have decimated animal life, forgetting that animal energy nourishes the earth. They believe that untried chemical compounds can take the place of prana and earthly emanations. They plunder the natural resources, unmindful that the balance must be maintained. -M: Fiery World 1933
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