One World Cafe Opens

Wednesday 11th July, One World Cafe, Leigh Street, London WC1H 9EW

09:30am - Meeting Opening, informal introductions.
09:45am - Steve Burak, Introduction to 'One World' Centre
09:50am - Stephen Stretton about the climate change think tank & campaign for stronger targets.
10:00am - Prof. David MacKay (Physics Department) - Energy and Climate Change
10:15am - Colin Challen MP - Speech & Opening of Shop
10:30am - Tea break 11am - Informal discussion about the programme for the think tank & the One World climate change centre.
11:30am - Dr Adrian Wrigley - The taxation system and how it can be fixed.
12:00am Questions, discussion
12:30am Close

7pm Celebratory Party Begins.

This Climate Thing is a Lot of Fun

Here are some questions that are pressing on my mind. Difficult, fundamental and nearly always ignored. I'll be blogging them one by one as soon as I can. We open the "One World" think shop Wednesday, I start consulting as Energy Officer for the local authority this week, have a Carbon Rationing Action Group to launch on Wednesday for the Maidenhead community and now am being recruited to take part in a new think tank on energy and the climate. Life is fun right now!!!

• Population is THE Most Inconvenient Truth
• The Civilisation Tragedy
• Equity. Fairness or Dreams
• A Real Sceptic Speaks the Truth Actually
• The Climate Tragedy
• Is the Climate Really Just Evolution
• What Are we Trying to Protect, The Biosphere, Civilisation… Or Me!
• The Wealthy and Educated Will Survive
• The Right Number of Humans
• Global Warming. Lets Open Our Minds
• The Undiscovered Country

Offset Someplace Else

Under the hazy hampton sun
A flower show has just begun
While Nero fiddles, people sweat
Humid heat then months of wet
Our scorching planet future warm
Makes Russia's wastes our only farm
Amid concern a fashion walk
Inspires, excites, much more than talk
Are Georgie's clothes and David's Plants
A lease of life or funeral dance?
A message mixed with hope or fear?
Oceans dead are oceans clear.
With flights on offer we may confuse
So I'll leave the last to Shakespeare's Muse.
"All this men know but none know well
To spurn the heaven that leads men to this hell"

Steve Stretton, July 2007

Churchill... Say what you like about him, but here's my favourite quote

"You ask what I have to offer ? I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. THAT is our policy"

- Winston Churchill upon his very first entrance into the House of Commons as Britain's new Prime Minister on May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill only received a lukewarm reception from the assembly, while at his side, outgoing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who's policy was to appease the Nazi's was heartily cheered. Churchill made this brief statement, which became one of the greatest calls-to-arms ever uttered. It came at the beginning of World War II when the armies of Adolf Hitler were roaring across Europe, seemingly unstoppable, conquering country after country for Nazi Germany, and when the survival of Britain itself seemed quite uncertain

This is what I call courage, this is what I call real leadership, this is what is missing in our world today

Do you believe in God or a god? Then read on

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus, circa a very long time before Christ

What can I say about New York City

...electric, big, culture, ethnic, stink, fast, fashion, rude, fun, home, money, coffee, leading, helpful, lost, win, grid, green, sky, bagel, rainstorm, global, gotham, rubble, heat, subway, efficient, lights, impatient, skating, on off, real, useful, happy, ultimate, the one, mine, everyone's...

That is All I can say about New York City

Are We Really Born With Rights?

Maybe!

In life we certainly have duties. Rights support the laws against which mankind and societies can measure both their selfishness and selflessness. But nothing else. We made them up at some point and they are not divine in any way, what is.

However, our duty as individuals and as a society is to behave like humans, benevolent beings. In other words, we're on the right track, dont change anything, keep going and take care of how you treat yourself and others. Most of all seek the truth no matter how painful it feels.

But dont accept that rights are a given, because we are born with no more than an "Entitlement" to an existence in the Universe.