Saw an interesting piece on Sixty Minutes Australia on the plight of the native people of the Amazon forest.
They have lived their lifestyle relatively untouched by modern society for thousands of years, and now, like in a scene from the movie “Avatar” that way of life is likely to come to an end. They are planning to build 60 dams throughout the Amazon which will see some areas completely flooded, while other areas will be dry and without water. They said the people that are displaced might be reduced to going to the major cities and begging for their survival. You have to wonder in such a situation whether Solar and Wind power options have been fully exhausted.
They do have two very popular people who are advocating for their cause, James Cameron, the director of Titanic and Avatar, as well as Sigourney Weaver, who I always associate with Ripley from the Alien series of movies.
Not sure if this video can be viewed by people outside of Australia, but it is definitely worth taking a look.
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/dammed/xmn01f5
Author: ian
Just added three new blog categories
Just added three new forum categories, for subjects that I am passionate about.
1. People
2. Music
3. Documentaries
In particular, I do love watching documentaries on nature, the environment, philosophy and space, so I will be posting up my reviews on those.
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Four elements of World Peace
Whilst this site may often mention some bad events happening in certain parts of the world, it serves no purpose to simply bury ones head in the sand. There will also be a strong positive focus, highlighting the good things are happening.
I firmly believe that there are four critical elements to achieve World Peace, which I will elaborate on further in upcoming blog posts.
They are Peace, Nature, Love and Unity. I believe each is critical in achieving World Peace, and have created that as the four main categories of this blog.
World Peace Blog
Over the next few weeks, I will be restoring the world peace blog. I found the forum was just becoming overrun with spam, and a few people, myself being one, preferred the blog style option.