Those are the words used by the World Health Organisation to describe the trajectory of the growth of new cancer cases. They predict a jump from 14 million a year now to 24 million new cases per year by 2035 – about 2.5% growth a year (compounded). That better be faster than the growth of …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
It’s easy to ignore what you put in your mouth.
The Ecologist Guide to Food, written by Andrew Wadsley, is to be published in mid-February. I reckon I know about what I put in my mouth. After all I grow a lot of it in the garden. But I happened to click over to the book promotion page and was reminded how easy it is …
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US college degrees cost more than a house.
This YouTube video of Marty Nemko debunking myths of big incomes that come from going to college, landed in an in-tray almost unnoticed. It’s from 2011, and is still valid. The data is unattractive. The alternatives to college that he advocates, like community college, part-time, apprenticeship and work to learn, make better sense for more …
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Winning without trying.
Sun Tzu’s philosophy was to avoid conflict if possible. He recognised the waste of resources and the cost of the risk that aggression creates. Many modern managers think that he was all about fighting, but his philosophy was much ore about fighting without fighting, as Bruce Lee said, and if you have to fight, do …
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Don’t Just Sit There!
Do you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind a computer? Check out this excellent pdf poster from The Washington Post, and it’ll help you think about some uncomfortable habits. The health hazards of sitting
85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world
That’s a shocking fact. The timing of that headline is appropriate as the rich gather to enjoy the luxuries that Davos, in the Swiss Alps, has to offer the World Economic Forum. Anyone reading this is unlikely to be one of those 85 people, but you are definitely in the top 10%. And everyone at …
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The work climate, like the weather, is changing .
The world is changing. Not just volatile weather – snow in Florida, tempest in Ireland – but in the socio-economic dynamic that has borne humanity to this position in civilisation. We are running out of jobs. Technology is taking over all employment, except the lowest paid, menial tasks and the highest paid, bespoke services. Even …
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We are still not prepared to pay for our planet.
In the past decade there has certainly been a huge increase in awareness and care about sustaining nature in the face of overconsumption by humanity. Now, most people have heard the terms “sustainable”, “organic”, “eco”, “green” and associate positive initiatives with these terms. Sadly we also associate a cost with these terms, a cost we …
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Lions: And then there were none …
Sadly lions are becoming extinct. You might think that Simba and friends are still roaming the African savanah, but like many large mammals they have been hunted to minimal populations and their habitat decimated by human encroachment. It was inevitable, given the gross overconsumption of nature by humanity, and we might not really care because …
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Euthanasia’s time is coming.
Death is an unknown and that makes it easy to fear it. Although it is a natural part of the cycle of life, western culture tends to ignore it and treat it as an unfamiliar phenomenon requiring dark rituals. That approach contrasts starkly with the advanced technology we play with every day and the deep …
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