We ignore people who are less fortunate than ourselves, who live on the fringes of Society. We care about others 40% less than people in the 1980's did, with the biggest drop-off in Empathy occurring after the year 2000. Reasons for this drop in Empathy is mainly due the increase in media (both social and mainstream) and ...
Dare to Be / Trau dich zu Sein / Atreva-se a Ser / Atreverse a Ser
Infants have no capacity for self-awareness. Then, between 18 and 24 months of age, they become conscious of their own thoughts, feelings, and sensations - embarking on a quest that will consume much of their lives. For modern Selves, the first shock of self-recognition marks the beginning of a lifelong search for the one true Self and ...
Buy shit you do not Need / Kauf Scheiße, die Du nicht Brauchst / Compre merda que você não Precisa / Compra mierda que no Necesitas
Would it not be great if you did not buy shit you do not need. It is more than likely that you own a lot of shit. Your life is full of shit that you do not need or use. I think that much of this shit is bad for you, me, and everyone else on the ...
Protect the Planet / Schütze den Planeten / Proteja o Planeta / Protege el Planeta
You can be easily feel disconnected from nature - especially if, like more than half of the World’s population, you live in a city. In a city food may seem to appear magically in grocery stores and fresh water comes out of a tap. It is important to remember that without intact natural areas elsewhere, cities could not ...
What if you’re Wrong / Was, wenn du falsch Liegst / E se você estiver Errado / Qué pasa si estás Equivocado
It can be painful to admit when you have made a wrong decision. Maybe you hired the wrong person, or you took a job that was not a good fit, or launched a new product line that no one seems to want. It is Human nature to be optimistic and always assume that you have made the ...
Stop being an Idiot / Hör auf ein Idiot zu Sein / Pare de ser Burro / Deja de ser un Idiota
There are now firms that will scrape your Facebook profile, Twitter profiles and any use of social media to create an extensive profile on you. Long before you meet your blind date for the first time, long before a company calls you in for an interview, they are reviewing your digital footprint. Is that an invasion of ...
Decline of our Glaciers / Rückgang unserer Gletscher / Declínio de nossas Geleiras / Disminución de nuestros Glaciares
When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers. Since then the number has decreased to fewer than 30, and most of those remaining have shrunk in area by two-thirds. Within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear. Everywhere on Earth ice is changing. ...
A mindless Culture / Eine geistlose Kultur / Cultura Estupido / Cultura Estupido
A generation has fallen down the rabbit hole of electronic hallucinations with images often dominated by violence and pornography. The entrapment in a World of nonstop electronic sounds and images, begun with the phonograph and radio, advanced by cinema and television and perfected by video games. The Internet and hand-held devices, is making it impossible to build ...
Space Junk / Weltraumschrott / Lixo Espacial / Basura Espacial
The 'United States Strategic Command' tracked a total of 17,852 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth, including 1,419 operational satellites. More than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm, about 670. 000 thousand debris between 1 and 10 cm, and around 29,000 thousand larger debris were estimated to be in orbit. Collisions with debris have become a hazard to ...
Economics is Brain Damage / Wirtschaft ist Gehirnschaden / Economia é dano Cerebral / Economía es daño cerebral
In today’s World, economics is king. Everyone is talking money and economy, yet none of it is actually even real. Money now grows faster than the real World and economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real World that it is destructive. The economists say, if you clearcut the forest, take the money and put it in the ...
Environmental Sustainability / Umweltverträglichkeit / Sustentabilidade Ambiental / Sostenibilidad del medio Ambiente
In 1992, more than 170 countries came together at the Rio Earth Summit and have agreed to pursue sustainable development, protect biological diversity, prevent dangerous interference with climate systems, and conserve forests. But, 25 years later, the natural systems on which humanity relies continue to be degraded. Since 1970 humanity’s ecological footprint has exceeded the Earth’s capacity and has risen ...
The Humans / Die Menschen / Os Humanos / Los Humanos
There are places, in and around our great cities, where the natural World has all but disappeared. You can make out streets and sidewalks, autos, parking garages, advertising billboards, monuments of glass and steel, but not a tree or a blade of grass or any animal, besides, of course, the Humans. There are lots of Humans. Only when ...
Citizen’s Oath / Bürgerschwur / Juramento do Cidadão / Juramento de Ciudadano
I promise, upon my honor, that I will leave this World stronger, safer, more sustainable, and more beautiful than I found it. It is a lot of pressure for one Human to make the World a better place. Sometimes on some days you put a lot of negative energy out into the World and that is the wrong way ...
A Child’s Dream / Ein Kindertraum / Um Sonho de Criança / El Sueño de un Niño
A Child's Dream - Maybe you will not remember, - maybe you will not have the time. - Maybe you are too busy with yourself - or maybe you are just ignorant. - Maybe your eyes are blind to see - and your ears deaf to hear. - Maybe you do not have the courage, - but maybe, just maybe, you will remember ...
Nature Is Speaking – Ocean / Die Natur spricht – Ozean / A Natureza está Falando – Oceano / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Oceano
On our planet, water and life are synonymous, and Earth’s oceans have shaped life as we know it. The oceans also make our air: Tiny marine plants called phytoplankton provide the majority of the breathable oxygen generated by the ocean, which accounts for more than half of the air we inhale. As the atmosphere gets hotter from ...
No more Leaders / Keine Führungskräfte Mehr / Não mais Líderes / No más Líderes
You know we always want to be led, that is one of our ... beastly nature. We all want to be told what to do - Marx tells you what to do, Christ tells you what to do, the psychologists tell you what to do, the politicians tell you what to do. We are always looking for ...
Work – Consume – Die / Arbeite – Kauf – Stirb / Trabalhe – Consume – Morre / Trabaja – Consume – More
The phrase 'Consume, Be silent, Die' embodies a critique of consumer culture, capturing what also has been called the poverty of abundance. Variants include 'Work, Consume, Be silent, Die' and 'Work, Buy, Consume, Die'. The phrase traces to 1970's environmental protests but regained prominence during the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011. Our cultural industry can be seen dangerous ...
Your created Story / Deine erstellte Geschichte / Tu história Criada / Tu historia Creada
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor of medicine and the creator of the Center for Mindfulness. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Buddhist teachers and Zen Master and a founding member of the Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of yoga and studies with Buddhist teachers led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people cope ...
Happiness comes from Within / Glück kommt von Innen / A felicidade vem de Dentro / La felicidad viene de Dentro
Happiness comes from within, declare a million advice blogs and books, Twitter messages and Facebook memes. The idea that happiness comes from within has taken a deep position in our collective psyche. Wellbeing is not anymore engaging with others but engaging with an inner journey, a self-focused personal quest. Most of the happiness trends, from self-help books to meditation, ...
Nature Is Speaking – Mother Nature / Die Natur spricht – Mutter Natur / A Natureza está Falando – Mãe Natureza / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Madre Naturaleza
The more carbon emitted into the atmosphere as a result of Human activity, the more destabilized our climate becomes. If we do not take action now, annual global greenhouse emissions will increase by more than 26% before 2030 - dramatically worsening the impacts of climate change. Conservation can help: Protecting and restoring forests could account for a ...
Nature Is Speaking – Ice / Die Natur spricht – Eis / A Natureza está Falando – Gelo / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Hielo
Throughout the year, Sea ice in polar regions enables the production of algae that supports the Arctic food web. The ice offers refuge for migrating seabirds, hunting grounds for seals, polar bears, and other important species, and grazing depots for krill and fish. Increased carbon emissions from Human activity is causing Earth’s atmosphere to warm, melting polar ...
Nature Is Speaking – Water / Die Natur spricht – Wasser / A Natureza está Falando – Agua / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Agua
Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the past century - to the point that now about 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; another 3 billion do not have adequate sanitation. Further, as climate change alters weather patterns, areas such as the Mediterranean region and ...
Nature Is Speaking – Forest / Die Natur spricht – Wald / A Natureza está Falando – Floresta / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Selva
Forests help to provide us the very air we breathe, yet we still cut down Portugal-sized chunks of forest every year. Tropical forests cover less than just 5% of the Earth’s surface, but global deforestation threatens their long-term survival, as well as the survival of the wildlife - and Humans - that rely on them. The ...
Change The World In 5 Minutes / Ändern die Welt in 5 Minuten / Mude o mundo em 5 Minutos / Cambia el mundo en 5 minutos
To change the World and to make it a better place to live in, it is not always necessary to give a lot of time and energy. Giving 5 minutes of a day for environment conservation through simple but effective environmental activities like recycling mobiles, old books, toys or growing some food, you could make ...
Society Trap / Gesellschaftsfalle / Armadilha da Sociedade / Trampa de la Sociedad
I had one year of backpacking, sleeping on the floor, begging for food and money during my project Rio 2016 before coming back to Society. We are all stuck in a trap of consumerism, our minds have been hijacked by corporations and are being used to generate profit. Society has lost its way but humanity is ...