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Birth

Success for Society - Birth (PWP) [also see here].
Human Rights in Childbirth [also read here].
BirthWorks International - empowers women to birth instinctively.
Midwifery Today - The heart and science of birth [for everyone!].
Birth Injury Center - learn about birth injuries.
Cap Wellness Center podcasts - on 'Healthy Births, Happy Babies', including two by Dr Michel Odent.

Environment

Basics
Videos
Videos - Funny
Air Pollution
Heatwaves
Organisations
Resources
Resources - Twitter
Articles

Basics

CEE Quotes & Success for Society - Environment (PWP).
Climate Crisis for Beginners (Usborne) [Great for children].
Emergency on Planet Earth [Extinction Rebellion scientists community answer explain so many of the issues and likely outcomes].
Facts (NASA).
The Case for Climate Justice (Global Justice Now) [PDF comic].
'We should be scared stiff' (The Guardian, 2007) [James Lovelock on how Europe will soon be uninhabitable desert. Millions will start moving north. The British Isles will be among the few island oases in a world given over to desert, scrub and oceans devoid of life - spared because global warming will be cancelled out by a fall in temperature due to the failure of the Gulf Stream. Most life will move up to the Arctic basin because only it and a few islands will remain habitable. By 2040/2050.].
Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years (Stanford University, Phys.org, 2013) [And it's accelerating].
What’s Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg, 2015). [Shows that it is not: Earth’s orbit, the Sun, volcanoes, deforestation, ozone pollution, aerosol pollution. It is greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄, H₂O).].
20 Random Reasons to Really Love Trees (Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 2018).
Humans are the dominant influence on climate (Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Twitter, 2018) [She shows why, considering many common denier arguments. Unrolled here.].
What evidence exists that Earth is warming and that humans are the main cause? (David Herring & Rebecca Lindsey, NOAA, 2020, updated 2022).
The Great Acceleration since 1950 in Graphs (XR Cambridge, 2020; also here).
How the oil industry made us doubt climate change (BBC, 2020) [Same evil tactics as tobacco, pesticides, plastic, sugar industries].
Biodiversity: Why the nature crisis matters, in five graphics (BBC, 2020).
A global warming of 1.8° F (1° C) seems small, so why is this change in global temperature a concern? (NOAA, 2020).
The Sky’s the Limit: Solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand (Carbon Tracker, 2021) [Far higher than fossil fuels and can meet global energy demand many times over, unlocking huge benefits for society].
‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans (The Guardian, 2021) [Similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics].
What is climate change? A really simple guide (BBC, 2021).
The climate crisis in 28 seconds (Asad Rehman, COP26, 2021) [28s video].
Global nightmare: What happens if humanity doesn’t take real action against climate change (Marshall Brain, WRAL TechWire, 2022) [Degrowth is also needed].
The Age of Extinction Is Here — Some of Us Just Don’t Know It Yet & The Last of Our Kind (Umair Haque, Medium, 2022).
Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’ (The Guardian, 2022).

Graph showing how many Earths would we need if everyone on the planet lived like the residents of specific countries? USA most at 5, UK at 2.6, China at 2.3, India lowest at 0.7. A few others are also listed.

How many Earths?
How many Earths would we need if everyone on the planet lived like the residents of your country?
Anything above 1.0 is ecocide.
(Adapted from Global Footprint Network and Biocapacity Accounts, 2021; fair use, educational)

Videos

Global Dimming (BBC Horizon, 2005) [This documentary explains how human-caused atmospheric pollution acts as a mirror (to the Sun). It has cooled the Earth and masked global warming (due to human-caused greenhouse gases). As we stop polluting - as we must, for health and weather reasons - global warming will accelerate rapidly. So, a 10°C/18°F increase is likely by 2100. Also see here.] [42m].
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip (Leo Murray, 2008) [11m34s].
Climate change is simple (David Roberts, TEDx, 2012) [17m43s].
Envisionation Interview: David Wasdell On the IPCC & Scientific Voice (YouTube, 2012) [IPCC is political, not scientific] [8m].
Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 2°C? [2m35s]; 3°C? [1m47s]; 4°C? [1m57s]; 5°C? [2m40s] (Sky News, 2015).
Prof. Will Steffen explains the Climate Crisis in 2 minutes (2016) [2m12s].
Three Seconds (Spencer Sharp & Prince Ea, #Film4Climate 1st Prize Short Film Winner, 2016) [If you condense Earth's lifespan of 4.5 billion years into one day, will humans survive to the fourth second of their presence on Earth?] [4m17s].
What's the Big Deal With a Few Degrees? (Global Weirding with Prof Katharine Hayhoe, 2019) [In daily life, ambient temperature changes a lot, so why panic? In the CEE the temperature change is a global average, so it can be compared to a prolonged fever in the human body. A few degrees difference can be very debilitating and dangerous. And it is happening so fast.] [9m4s].
Climate Change: The Facts (BBC, 2019 documentary with David Attenborough) [57m34s].
Extinction: The Facts (BBC, 2020 documentary with David Attenborough) [58m].
The Secret History Of Climate Change (Cogito, YouTube, 2020) [16m14s].
Is it time to reassess our relationship with nature? (BBC Ideas, 2020) [4m44s].
The Shaman's Message (Instituto Socioambiental, 2020) [Powerful] [2m15s].
'We're looking at Billions of People not being able to Survive' (Peter Carter & Roger Hallam, 2021) [41m20s].
13 educational videos (The Story of Stuff Project, 2021) [from 2m to 22m].
Greta Thunberg speech (Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative, July 2021; also see here) [Brilliant, speaking truth to power] [7m17s].
How the Media helped create Climate Change (George Monbiot, Double Down News, 2021) [9m39s].
Climate Paradox (Beril Sirmacek, 2021) [The Climate Paradox is that - due to Global Dimming - any reduction in fossil fuels will lead to rapid catastrophic warming due to the lost polluting-yet-reflective atmospheric aerosols. Solution = masses of Arctic mirrors, then simultaneously: reduce industrial emissions, stop fossil fuels and agricultural methane, rewild the planet.] [7m41s].
The climate crisis in 28 seconds (Asad Rehman, COP26, 2021) [28s].
Don't Look Up (2021) [The asteroid is a metaphor for the CEE. Stars include Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep.] [2h18m].
World on 'fast track to climate disaster', say UN secretary general (The Guardian, 2022) [Massive switch to renewables needed right now] [2m16s].
Global warming, our future is disappearing (Greenpeace via Twitter, 2022) [Wow!] [43s].

Cartoon. An alien reports on Earth news. The background is apocalyptic business-as-usual human society. The gist of the alien's words is that humans worship economic growth, hope for a tech-fix, but it's suicide.

Homicide Sapien (Max Gustafson; fair use, educational)

Videos - Funny

Too late to stop Climate Change? (ClimateAdam, 2020) [Fun, educational] [5m24s].
Honest Government Ad - The Fires (The Juice Media, 2020) [How to gaslight a nation. Adaptation will be easy. Get used to it. You're on your own, dickheads.] [3m26s].
Climate Change Is An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why (UpIsNotJump, 2020) [Fun, factual, fast-paced] [30m6s].
Honest Government Ad - Carbon Capture and Storage (The Juice Media, 2021) [4m44s].
Honest Government Ad - Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta) (The Juice Media, 2021) [3m45s].
Jonathan Pie: The World's End (Spanner Films, 2021) [Sad yet hilarious exposé of COP26 - with George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas & Ed Miliband] [23m2s].
The Earth is dying (Foil Arms and Hog, 2022) [2m36s].
COP27 downfall (Christopher C, 2022) [Uses oft-memed Hitler clip] [4m3s].
Jonathan Pie Meets Prof Haigh - Climate Science Translated (Climate Science Breakthrough, 2023) [4m50s].
Kiri Meets Bill - Climate Science Translated (Climate Science Breakthrough, 2023) [5m33s].
Anti Environmentalism (Foil Arms and Hog, 2024) [1m51s].

Cartoon. A modern Noah is loading the Ark. Animals and nature are prevented from boarding. Priority is given to oil rigs, industrial coal chimneys, planes, trucks, cars, motorbikes, etc. The Ark is beginning to crack...

Modern Ark (Adene; fair use, educational)

Air Pollution

Revealed: air pollution may be damaging ‘every organ in the body’ (The Guardian, 2019).
There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year (Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, 2021) [In the past 15 months, air pollution has killed 3x as many as Covid-19. Yet it is normalised. WTF!].
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds (The Guardian, 2021) [Coal burning is the leading cause].

The cartoon is of a desolate wasteland with a dead bird, rubbish, oil spills and a human skeleton. In the background is so many industrial chimneys, all spewing out smoke. The skeleton thinks, "At least the economy is doing well".

Developed Economy (Max Gustafson; fair use, educational)

Heatwaves

Tips by Bitchcraft & Niggatry and many others (Twitter thread, 2021; unrolled here).
Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans (Simon Lewis, The Guardian, 2021).
Beat the heat: how to stay cool in hot weather (Linda Geddes, The Guardian, 2022).
Heatwave: When is it too hot to work? (BBC, 2022) [UK focus].
Body shock: six ways the heat affects the human body (Katherine Latham, The Guardian, 2022).
Australian on handling heatwaves without an air conditioner (Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts, Twitter thread, 2022).
How the boom in air conditioning is fuelling global heating (Jeremy Plester, The Guardian, 2022) [A vicious cycle].
Air Conditioning Hack with a Fan & Freezer (NowThis, Twitter, 2022) [28s video].

A detailed graphic showing the differences between Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke. The latter is an emergency.

Heat Exhaustion or Heat Stroke? (Weather Trending; fair use, educational)
[Also see: here, here]

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Organisations

Extinction Rebellion [Non-violent civil disobedience vs. CEE. Arrest is optional.].
Fridays For Future [Youth-led vs. CEE, started by Greta Thunberg].
Greenpeace [Non-violent, creative action vs. CEE].
Just Stop Oil [Demands no new oil or gas projects, UK].
Sunrise Movement [Advocating for political action in the USA vs. CEE].

A black-and-white cartoon. Young people say, "Our planet is dying!" Politcians reply, "Now is not a good time."

Now is not a good time (Unknown source; fair use, educational)

Resources

CEE Quotes (PWP).
Climate Emergency Centres (CEC) [Establish one in your community!].
Natural Climate Solutions.
The Lorax (Dr Seuss, 1971) [Are you a Once-ler who says stopping business as usual is impractical? Or do you care a whole awful lot?].
So you're ready to take action against climate change... (J Ferorelli, 2018) [Flowchart].
An Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate Breakdown Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Prof Julia Steinberger, Medium, 2018).
Opinion - How to live with the climate crisis without becoming a nihilist (Peter Kalmus, Los Angeles Times, 2019).
We Can Use Less Energy and Still Have Good Lives (Gizmodo, 2020).
Decent living for all does not have to cost the Earth (Leeds University, 2020).
'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis (Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 2020).
How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption (Jag Bhalla & Eliza Barclay, Vox, 2020).
9 things you can do about climate change (Imperial College, 2021)
5 best and 5 worst things a person can do for the climate (Peter Kalmus, 2021).
Why you don’t give a f#*k about climate change (but these 6 GIFs can fix that) (Will Essilfie & Clare Saxon Ghauri, Medium, 2021).
The climate crisis is global, but councils can offer local solutions (Stephen Smellie, The Guardian, 2021) [With government support, councils can lead the way in generating clean energy, insulating housing and reskilling staff].
Want to fight for climate action but feel daunted or powerless? Try this (Tayo Bero, The Guardian, 2021) [Pressure organisations: employer, university, union, religion].
False Narratives /Myths/Propaganda… (Mark Cranfield, Twitter, 2021).
Here’s how to demolish the most common excuses for climate crisis apathy (Elizabeth Cripps, The Guardian, 2022).
Six promises you can make to help reduce carbon emissions (The Guardian, 2022).
Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era (Benjamin K. Sovacool & Alexander Dunlap, Energy Research & Social Science, 2022).
GB News BS debunked (Dr. Aaron Thierry, Twitter, 2022) [Also see here, here].

Cartoon. In the foreground, a middle-aged man with a rifle has just shot dead a climate protester. His friend in an SUV asks, "What'd you do?" He replies, "Shot the messenger. That's problem solved." Meanwhile, pollution is in background, rubbish & a dead bird is in the foreground, a tornado is approaching, forests burn.

Shoot the Messenger (Max Gustafson; fair use, educational)

Resources - Twitter
Some of the accounts that PWP has often consulted:-

Christopher Cartwright [He often uses brilliant sarcastic humour, e.g. the 'plant trees' strategy in a world of droughts/extreme heat. But don't agree with all, e.g. unlike him, PWP applauds Just Stop Oil.].
George Monbiot [A very experienced and insightful environmental journalist. But atheist.].
Jessica Wins [The valuable perspective of an indigenous person. Also: science, visionary Christianity. Don't agree with all. Often has extreme CEE videos.].
Julia Steinberger [Professor in social ecology & ecological economics].
Matthew Todd [He really cares].
Peter Kalmus [NASA climate scientist and activist].
The Truth About Climate Change (Mark Cranfield) [Tends to cut through political/ economic/scientific ignorance, greenwashing, caution. (But I disagree with him on: (1) God - he doesn't believe yet; (2) Population - it's not the root of all problems; (3) Need for degrowth - we need to try!; (4) He doesn't want us to stop fossil fuels due to aerosol loss & its sudden global warming - but surely we must run the gauntlet, so as to minimise geopolitical conflict - & otherwise for sure we will be extinct?; (5) Too doomist - I back this, this, this; (6) Beware anyone who claims to tell the whole truth, who claims infallibility.)].
XR Cambridge [Often very insightful].

Cartoon. A climate protester has glued his hands onto a road. He is blocking the planet Earth from falling off a cliff. Meanwhile two policemen are roughly and dumbly removing him.

CEE protester, Earth & police (Unknown source; fair use, educational)

Articles

Population Control & Cybertron & Elysium (PWP).
Decolonize Conservation (Survival) [also join the call here!].
Stop using China as an excuse for inaction on climate change (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2015) [Invoking Yellow Peril tropes over China’s carbon footprint fails to recognise the fact its energy use is tied to our consumption, the country’s coal demand is dropping and Chinese people care more about climate than we do].
Climate action must now focus on the global rich and their corporations (The Conversation, 2018).
Beware far-right arguments disguised as environmentalism (The Conversation, 2020).
Deep Adaptation (Prof Jem Bendell, 2020).
World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam (The Guardian, 2020).
Johnson's pledges on the environment are worthless. Worse is how cynical they are (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2020).
'Uninhabitable hell': UN report lays bare the reality of climate change (NZ Herald, 2020).
Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth by 2050, Scientists Say (Vice, 2020) [Degrowth!].
The Climate Movement Must Be Ready To Challenge Rising Right-Wing Environmentalism (Sam Knights, Jacobin, 2020) [On ecofascism].
1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions – study (The Guardian, 2020).
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report (The Guardian, 2020).
Climate change: Global 'elite' will need to slash high-carbon lifestyles (BBC, 2020).
Facing Extinction (Catherine Ingram, 2021) [A great overview, but, for me, too much doom, not enough Angel - though she and others will see me as delusional].
Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption (The Guardian, 2021).
UN global climate poll: ‘The people’s voice is clear – they want action’ (The Guardian, 2021) [Two-thirds think it's a global emergency].
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth's Ancient Rock Record (Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 2021) [Our climate models could be missing something big].
There’s a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it? (Bill McGuire, Prospect, 2021) [Degrowth].
Climate activism isn’t making young people anxious. Climate change is (Natasha Abhayawickrama, The Guardian, 2021).
There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26? (Greta Thunberg, The Guardian, 2021) [Basically, Governments & media deny, lie, kill].
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words (Benjamin Franta, The Conversation, 2021).
‘A continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26 (The Guardian, 2021) [They reject the ‘big business’ approach].
Cop26 has to be about keeping fossil fuels in the ground. All else is distraction (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2021).
Cop26 leaders blame individuals, while supporting a far more destructive system (Stephen Reicher, The Guardian, 2021) [It suits governments to lecture us on our consumption, but they need to offer systemic change to tackle the climate crisis].
How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities (Kendra Pierre-Louis, MIT Technology Review, 2021) [We will experience groundwater flooding long before the ocean comes lapping at our front door].
Climate emergency is a legacy of colonialism, says Greenpeace UK (The Guardian, 2022) [Global south used as place to dump waste, people of colour suffering badly].
Julia Hartley-Brewer debunked (DeSmog, Twitter, 2022) [Also see here].
Reliance on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN official (The Guardian, 2022) [At the expense of marginalised groups, indigenous peoples].
Before the floods I thought climate change wasn’t my problem. Now, I’m not waiting for someone else to fix it (Ella Buckland, The Guardian, 2023) [Powerful. Australia.].
‘Climate negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna Craft on the struggle smaller countries face (The Guardian, 2023) [CEE is like Domestic Violence].
Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest (The Guardian, 2023).
5 Reasons for Environmentalists to Stop Blaming “Doom & Gloom” Narratives (Félix de Rosen, Resilience, 2024).
The Specter of Deep-Sea Mining (Eileen Crist, CounterPunch, 2024) [Fossil fuel ecocide is being replaced by renewable energy ecocide].

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Natural Family Living

Natural Family Living (PWP).
Life - Wendy Priesnitz website.
Peggy O'Mara - website of former editor of Mothering magazine.
Mothering magazine - The home for Natural Family Living.
Wondrous Beginnings - Wendy McCarty, Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology pioneer.
Motherworld - The Motherworld is the society where mothers and the values of mothering – love, care and support for each other, and for our Mother Earth and all Her creatures and nature – are placed in the centre of our lives, rather than being left out on the periphery [also see here, here].

Old People and Ageing

Ageing & Old People articles (PWP).
A new start after 60 - Stories from people who pursued new passions later in life (The Guardian).
LongeviQuest [A global authority on maximum human longevity, including a database of supercentenarians].
What Good Is Grandma? (David P. Barash, Nautilus, 2016) [The growing role of grandparents in raising children is right in line with human biology].
This 32-year-old is on a mission to end loneliness (BBC, 2018).
Can exercise reverse the ageing process? (BBC, 2019).
Can you think yourself young? (David Robson, The Guardian, 2022) [Research shows that a positive attitude to ageing can lead to a longer, healthier life, while negative beliefs can have hugely detrimental effects].
Never past your prime! 13 peaks we reach at 40 or later – from sex to running to self-esteem (Emma Beddington, The Guardian, 2023).

Other

Big Life Issues (PWP).
wikiHow - Free helpful advice on how to do almost anything with a supportive community.

Peace

Peace Quotes (PWP).
Achieve World Peace.
The Earth Charter - Values & principles to build a just, sustainable and peaceful 21st century society. [Project World Peace has endorsed it - and so can you!]
Peace symbols (Wikipedia).
World Peace Group - World Peace through Meditation.
Peace Is Not Boring by Scilla Elworthy PhD.
Cyber Peace Foundation [building collective resilience against cyber warfare].

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Petitions, Causes, Activism & World Change

No Thank You (PWP).
Avaaz.
Care2.
Causes.com.
Change.org.
ForceChange.
Rainforest Rescue.
iPetitions.
UK: 38 Degrees.
UK: HM Government e-petitions.
Scotland: Petitions.
USA: We the People.
USA: UltraViolet.
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (Albert Einstein Institution) [also see here, here].

Politics

Success for Society - Politics (PWP).
Unity Obstacles - Political Machinations (PWP).
MotherWorld Political Party.
The case for global free movement - Bridges not Borders (Global Justice Now, 2018) [Comic book simply explains how we need to treat immigration].
Should citizens assemblies be mandatory? (The Guardian, 2020).
Why does the right keep pretending the left runs Britain? (The Guardian, 2020) [Trump/Republicans/GOP does the same in the USA].
Disruption, destruction and chaos has become the new way of governing (The Guardian, 2020).
Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most dangerous moment in human history (New Statesman, 2020).
America is now a mafia state (The.Ink, 2020).
Democracy is in decline. Here’s how we can revive it (The Correspondent, 2020) [Explains ‘Citizens’ Assemblies’ simply yet in-depth].
The Trial of Julian Assange Should Terrify Everyone (Matt Kennard, DDN, 2020) [4m41s video].
The Tipping Point - Infinite Waters (Ralph Smart, After Skool, 2021) [10m12s video].
Honest Government Ad | Democracy™ [Blocked in 🇮🇳] (The Juice Media, 2024) [4m44s video].

Racism

Basics

Success for Society - Racism & Privilege (PWP).
Definitions (I Don't Want to Be a Racist).
Discovery doctrine (Wikipedia) [Evil, violent land theft from indigenous people by colonialism. Ongoing international 'law'.].
Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community (Sunshine Behavioral Health).
How to argue with a racist: Five myths debunked (BBC, 2020).
The hidden victims of gaslighting (BBC Future, 2020) [Gaslighting is also systemic. The affected include: children, women, racial minorities.].

Videos

Doll Test (YouTube) [So sad] [9m12s].
Muhammad Ali: 'Why is everything white?' (BBC, 1971) [Brilliant, funny] [2m40s].
Racism - A History episode 3 - A Savage Legacy (BBC4, 2007) [Brutal must-see from a quality three-part documentary series] [58m47s].
How America moves beyond its racist past (BBC, 2017) [15m23s].
The true legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' (George Monbiot, Double Down News, YouTube, 2018) [Brilliant exposé. Did history teach you this?] [5m14s].
Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins with Police (YouTube, 2020) [Helps show how commonplace is black oppression in the USA] [19m10s].
Black Lives Matter: 'How can we win?' Monopoly analogy explained (BBC, 2020) [Brilliant analogy by Kimberly Jones] [4m2s].
The story of Britain's Black Power movement (BBC, 2020) [6m27s].
The myth of race (BBC Ideas, 2021) [6m47s].

Organisations & Resources

Black Lives Matter [also see here].
Lakota Man [Educates about Native American history on Twitter/X].
Survival International [Since 1969 fighting for the survival of Tribal Peoples].
A collection of anti-racism resources (38 Degrees).
Support Black-Owned Businesses: 450+ Places to Start Online (Sophia Conti, Website Planet) [USA, UK, Ireland, Netherlands].
Free in the Time of Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement (Roslyn Smith, One Billion Rising, 2020) [Expression of solidarity].
Rachel Cargle's Free #DoTheWork Course if seek to Ally with Black Women [Highly recommended, very enlightening].

An old black-and-white photo. A Native American man stands next to a Black man. By the Native American man are the words 'America is stolen land'. By the Black man are the words 'Built by people who were stolen from their land'.

Articles

Underclass & Criminality (PWP).
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People about Racism (Dr Robin DiAngelo, PhD, 2015).
6 Ways Spiritual Thinking Can Reinforce Oppression and Racism (Virginia Rosenberg, Decolonizing Yoga, 2016) [Sorry, but link is currently not working].
Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe (BBC, 2018).
Behind the legacy of America's blackface (BBC, 2019).
Should the term 'racist' be redefined? (BBC, 2019) [Racism as action or inaction - rather than a permanent label. Racism as systemic - more than individual.].
'I want my children to be proud they're black' (BBC, 2020).
How the long fight for slavery reparations is slowly being won (The Guardian, 2020).
A corporate, commodified Black History Month is taking hold. We can't let it (Malaika Jabali, The Guardian, 2021).
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea (Robert P Baird, The Guardian, 2021) [Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.].
Ten years after the English riots, the government is still in denial about racism (Chloe Peacock, The Guardian, 2021).
No more white saviours, thanks: how to be a true anti-racist ally (Nova Reid, The Guardian, 2021).
Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust remarks drew on a misguided idea of racism (Kenan Malik, The Guardian, 2022) [Whites can be racist to other whites, e.g. WW2 Jews, GRT, Irish, Slavs. Race has never been simply about black and white.].
Climate emergency is a legacy of colonialism, says Greenpeace UK (The Guardian, 2022) [Global south used as place to dump waste, people of colour suffering badly].
The royals have a duty to the Commonwealth: pay your debts, and apologise (Prof Nalini Mohabir, The Guardian, 2022) [Monarchy has been harmful for former colonies. Future without it needed. Renounce Doctrine of Discovery. Reparations needed.].
My father’s family kept slaves – and he defended it. Acknowledging it matters (Maud Newton, The Guardian, 2022) [Amid a rise of US laws forbidding discussions of racist histories, sharing our ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings is more urgent than ever. Reparations discussed.].
A guide to decolonize language in conservation (Survival International, 2022) [PDF].
Reliance on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN official (The Guardian, 2022) [At the expense of marginalised groups, indigenous peoples].
I’m a white man who wants to signal allyship with people of colour. What should I do? (Sisonke Msimang, The Guardian, 2023) [Drowning person analogy].

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Solar Culture & Philosophy

Solar Culture (PWP).
Why look at the sunrise? - YouTube video by O.M. Aïvanhov.
Prosveta.com & Prosveta.co.uk - Omraam Mikhaёl Aïvanhov distributors.
Luminous Life: How The Science Of Light Unlocks The Art Of Living (Dr Jacob Israel Liberman).
Imagining a world without fossil fuels (BBC, 2018).
FreedÔm Génération TV - Videos on solar practice.
FreedÔm Génération [in French].
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History (Popular Mechanics, 2020) [Tough break for fossil fuels].
‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world (The Guardian, 2021) [Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming].
Let it shine: the unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin (Linda Geddes, The Guardian, 2023).

Spirituality

Spirituality (PWP).
Daily Meditation by Omraam Mikhaёl Aïvanhov: UK or International or email.
Your Spiritual Health Programme by William Bloom [PDF direct link].

Technology

Succes for Society - Technology (PWP) [also see here].
Center for Humane Technology [realigning tech with humanity's best interests].
Digital colonialism: the evolution of American empire (Michael Kwet, Roar, 2021) [Digital colonialism is the use of digital technology for political, economic and social domination of another nation or territory. American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labour, social media and entertainment in the Global South.].
Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts (Jamie Waters, The Guardian, 2021) [Effective tech fasting].

Women

Success for Society - Women & The Importance of Women (PWP).
Women & Failure & Women & Failure Quotes (PWP).
Sexual Consent & Harassment (PWP).
Goddess (PWP).
#SheLeadsInCrisis (CARE International).
MotherWorld Political Party.
100 Women: Do female leaders improve women's lives? (BBC, 2017).
100 Women: 'Why I invented the glass ceiling phrase' (BBC, 2017).
What would a city designed by women be like? (BBC, 2019).
Five things everyone with a vagina should know (BBC, 2019).
Building collective feminist leadership – unlearning the “me, me, me” (Feminist Hiking Collective, 2020).
The hidden victims of gaslighting (BBC Future, 2020) [Gaslighting is also systemic. The affected include: children, women, racial minorities.].
Living in a woman’s body: our fists raised in defiance, we are taking back what is ours (V, The Guardian, 2022).
Prehistoric women were hunters and artists as well as mothers, book reveals (The Guardian, 2022) [Debunks the simplistic division of gender roles. Women had many roles. They were not continually pregnant, as they breastfed till children aged four, which reduces fertility. Cooperation between all members of the group, regardless of their gender or age, ensured their survival.].
There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other (Fatima Bhutto, The Guardian, 2023).

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