My namesake, Uncle Bain was killed 21 months before I was born. However, family stories about him and his calls for peace in his letters during World War II did greatly impact me.
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A Focus on Degrowth & Socio-Ecological Justice. A New Profoundly-Holistic Golden Rule for Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACEmaking
https://xueyingyingxue.substack.com/p/roy-morrisons-a-new-golden-rule-for https://degrowth.info/en/blog/book-review-less-is-more-how-degrowth-will-save-the-world-by-jason-hickel I am sort of “trying” to not do “this” so much (i.e., posting of the sort of very sad Truths like that in the URLs far below). … Nevertheless, I do wish folk would truly begin to be very aware of our various processes of destruction of “a dynamic homeostatic symbioses including humans”, […]
Thoughts Up on the Llano Estacado and Nearby during a Trip from TX to SD to NM & Back to Texas (We Were Doing Ecological Activities Up in Yellow Bear Canyon, Pine Ridge Reservation)
Passing through the agricultural area around Lamesa, Texas on our way home to Seguin, Texas from Yellow Bear Canyon, Pine Ridge Reservation & Santa Fe, NM (7/2/2024). ******** More than 60 years ago, my brother Lawrence Alton and I did support work for several summers during our high school-years … in the growing, harvest, processing, […]
“All Education Is Ecological Education!” (Paraphrased from David Orr)
We desperately need “‘positively’ ethical applied community ecology”/PEACEmaking across curricula & campuses of all human organizational entities on Eaarth (principles & processes of ecology and appropriate values, critical thinking, decision-making, action & practices … short- & long-term). paul bain martin ( 7 Ss / VV->^^)
Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology. Please Learn, Critically Think, and Act!
I’m not a fan of apathy or complacency … (and perhaps too much “religious prayer & mindless worship of all-powerful Gods, … i.e., traditional Gods & Bible-like books & Constitutions & Laws; Ann Ryn, Trump; neoliberal capitalism, ‘technology’, the stuff/glamour/chewing gums & opiates of the mind/power/fossil energy from transnational corporations, industrial ag, ‘organics’, ‘Holistic Management’; […]
Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE & “Less Is More” … (The Essence of “christian” Humility!)
Dad Alton Martin and his “Less Is More”*-ethos/way-of-life from the Depression … and late 1800s and early 1900s conservation-ethos/way-of-life from “G.I. Bill”-learning immediately after he came home from WW II was what, I think, influenced me the greatest in my personal-ethos/way-of-life (given to me through Dad’s genetics and epigenetic and environmental influences). Moreover, the villages […]
PEACE vs. War
In my life … o from my early youth after birth in 1946, with the “War hymns” we learned as youth, o the various holidays & events during the year telling us how Great we are & how “great we are when at War”,o the Devine “War”horses, o the Corps at A&M,o watching glorified WW II dogfights […]
Another of our games*. Excerpts from a “taxonomy of generations” … & comments on some proposed characteristics
A loved one who came into our “family life” more than twenty years ago “has hope” “knowing Gen Z will someday be in charge.” As a stupid knee-jerking contrarian, I could (& would) readily quarrel, using factual substance, with several aspects of this statement above. …………………… Some pensamentos … It is a small sample size […]
natural law
intelligent, open communication humility in interacting with all species avoid putting up walls, fences, borders practice pacifism blend as one