Seen on a car-sticker:

The bigger the hat
the smaller the property.

Hi there FOXY...

They were several most interesting Posts you provided us with, and for the most part, I'd agree 'in principle' with much that was advanced. Being the less learned soul that I am, I can only look at the broader picture, therefore I don't fully comprehend the precise nuances, these erudite scholars; Haim GINOTT'S & Tor HUNDLOE are attempting to convey?

For two of our other esteemed contributes to described the content therein as being 'rubbish' (seconded by anor.) is an opinion to which they're entitled. However if one were to examine a little more closely, GINOTT'S and HUNDLOE'S text, they might perhaps recognise, that much of our historical British legal jurisprudence, has some basis in fact, in much of what these two have averred herein?

Myself, well I've spent most of my career in the gutter, an environment in which I'm comfortable and know relatively well - Nevertheless, even I can appreciate what it is these scholars are trying to impart to us. One thing is abundantly certain, they know much more than I, that's for sure? Thank you again FOXY for some exceptional quotations.

Dear Paul,

I'm so relieved that at least someone saw the point
that was being made and the reasons for giving the
quotations that I thought were so appropriate to
this topic from Prof. Tor Hundloe's book,
"From Buddha to Bono: Seeking Sustainability."

How on earth anyone can describe Prof. Hundloe's
work as "absolute rubbish," is beyond my understanding.
It's ignorance and narrow-mindedness of the highest order.
Especially when they obviously have not read the work.
Were the written words so hard for them to comprehend?

Today we desperately seek solutions to climate change,
water scarcity, pollution, and Third World poverty.
But in order to go forward, first we must go back.

"From Buddha to Bono: Seeking Sustainability,"
traces
the development of the three key disciplines under-
pinning modern environmental decision-making, otherwise
known as sustainability science: ecology, economics and
ethics. It illustrates how these disciplines, singularly and
in concert, will need to be applied in the 21st century
if true sustainability is to be achieved.

It also explores the ideas of the great thinkers and activists
who have helped put sustainability on the cultural and
political map.

In 2003, Prof. Tor Hundloe was the first Australian
recognised by the award of an Order of Australia for his
development and practice of an economics in line with
ecological reality and ethical imperatives.

Professor Tor Hundloe opens up the world to anyone wanting to
better understand how we got into this mess - and how to get
out of it.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Thank You so much for your kind words and for
your understanding. You always know how to
encourage people and give them wings.
And that is so rare. Your life experience spans
worlds of human experience and human pain. You
have always used your knowledge and courage to
take what you have learned to try and put things
right. I am so grateful for your contributions
to this forum.

Yep educate people how important life is and then murder the unborn. They call it modern education.

Ezhil,

Early humans were divided into clans that fought continuously. In the last few hundred years, the number of people dying in warfare as % has slowly diminished to the lowest point in history. The very concept of human rights is a recent innovation.

Things have been getting better, not worse, and communism and Fascism were aberrations that killed millions.