Here's a pretty cool video on Daniel Quinn and his ideas about how we are going to be able to save the world.

This video is about food and population growth.

This video was shown to me by Vitor, it was super inspirational, so I thought I would share it with all of you :)

I have always found it interesting how native and indigenous people are so involved in a community, their daily lives are built through close-knit connections. There has been a drastic change from then until now. When the elder came to speak to us in class, he mentioned that our idea of a man today is someone who can bench press 300 pounds, has a nice truck, nice clothes, and just acts like a hunk. There is a disconnect of emotion. Men today tend to suppress their actual emotions because in our society being emotional as a man is not going to get you anywhere. Who came up with the idea that men aren't allowed to cry? If men weren't supposed to cry then they wouldn't have been given tear ducts just like everyone else. Our whole idea of being a man has become so screwed. I witness this disconnect on a daily basis. For instance, last night, a guy goes up to a girl and says hi and just starts to talk to her, he wasn't even flirting. Then Mr. Man has to go up and say "hey you're talkin' to my girl, back off." Then the next thing you know its a battle of who is the bigger man, punches start flying, people get hurt, police get called, its absolutely ridiculous. It accomplishes nothing. Being a man entails so much more than muscle, it entails humility, compassion, loyalty, affection, determination, honesty and so many more things. If only our society could accept that the way we were made, is the way we should be allowed to live and that only real men cry.

Dear class, I hope everyone enjoyed our speaker on Wednesday, I think he has a really amazing story. It is amazing how people are placed into our lives and inspire us to do greater things. I think that the biggest issue in this world is how money driven people are. Materialistic things drive people against one another, after all, it is a fight to see who can reach the top, who can live the American dream, and if a friend is in the way, then you have to take them out in order to get to the top. There is a loss of community because of money hungry people, there is such a focus on money that people forget how to really live, how to appreciate the PEOPLE around them. That, should be our first step to bettering ourselves, to finally understand that the material things do not really matter, and as soon as we can do that, I think we will feel a closer connection to the life around us.

Check this out! I found this video on YouTube of actual glacial receding footage throughout the expanse of a few years. I actually didn't listen to the whole video, but if you just want to check out the video footage it starts at 12 mins and ends at 14 mins 30 seconds. It really is unbelievable.

Here are two pictures of Portage Glacier. The picture on the right taken in 1950, the picture on the left taken in 2002. In case you cannot see, the picture of the glacier taken in 2002, is hiding way back up in the mountains the the upper left side of the picture. In the 1950 picture, it is blatantly clear where the glacier is, since it fills up the entire space between the mountains. Ladies and Gentlemen, within 52 years, this glacier has receded to less than half its size when the picture was taken in 1950. Only 52 years!!! The loss of this glacial water is detrimental to our ecosystem and everything living around the glacier. For all those skeptics who claim to believe that there is no such thing as global warming, are obviously living in a parallel universe to mine, because these pictures are hard fact that there is such a thing as global warming. If someone does not believe so than I personally think that they are in denial. This glacier has been around since the beginning of time, and the idea that it has almost completely vanished in just 52 years is really just heartbreaking. We are killing our mother and their are signs of it everywhere, no matter where you look there are signs of deprivation. At this rate, it wouldn't surprise me if this glacier was completely non-existent in the expanse of 20 years. It is proof like this that we need to use to convince the people of our world that we are killing our mother and it needs to stop now. The destruction of our mother will only bring about the destruction of ourselves.

I looked up fight for peace in youtube and found a pretty interesting song with some interesting viewpoints so I thought you might like to check it out.