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"Nature suffers in unforeseen ways: forests fail to regenerate, soils are impoverished, the climate changes, freshwater tables are lowered, ocean levels rise, and the atmosphere becomes polluted. Ultimately the Macroshift builds toward a point of bifurcation, the critical third phase at which society's evolutionary path is rapidly decided. As in nature, bifurcations in society are triggered by instabilities that are beyond the ability of the system to overcome: this is the true meaning of "unsustainability." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Are we witnessing a dry run of climate changes caused by global warming? Or was the Southern Oscillation just being its usual unpredictable self with its more frequent El Ninos of recent years? What causes the protean swings of the ENSO pendulum so convincingly modeled by today's computer simulations? Why do these models always evolve in different ways? Is El Nino a purely tropical phenomenon, or do some still-unknown external forces move the atmosphere and ocean, that George Philander calls "partners in the dance"? Who leads, the agile atmosphere or the more ponderous ocean?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "If Philander is correct, then the greatest threats to humanity from global warming in the short term come not from millennial climate changes but from regional climatic shifts, such as an increase in El Ninos, which have immediate, and usually adverse, effects on human populations. To some degree, the same has been true for the past ten millennia, but the stakes grow ever higher as the world's population continues to rise and marginal environments absorb more and more people." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Together, you and your child can learn to recognize common asthma-attack triggers, like excessive stress or emotion, cigarette smoke, cold air and other climate changes, respiratory infections, and exercise. Green School Gear Environmentally Friendly School Supplies Especially as they get older, you want your kids to be aware of the choice you've made to green their lives. One way to do this is to purchase eco-friendly school supplies. The fantastic Web site www.ecomall.com has lots of suggestions for taking your consumer eco-consciousness into the classroom." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Regional climate changes cannot explain the boom-and-bust pattern of human occupation in ancient Greece because the timing of land settlement and soil erosion differed around the region. Instead, modern geoarchaeo-logical surveys show that soil erosion episodically disrupted local cultures, forced settlements to relocate, led to changes in agricultural practices, and caused periodic abandonment of entire areas. An ancient geopolitical curiosity provides further evidence that people destroyed Greek soils. The northern slopes of Mount Parness define the border between Boeotia and Attica." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Although historians are prone to credit the end of civilizations to discrete events like climate changes, wars, or natural disasters, the effects of soil erosion on ancient societies were profound. Go look for yourself; the story is out there in the dirt. TWO Skin of the Earth We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. LEONARDO DA VINCI Charles darwin's last and least-known book was not particularly controversial. Published a year before he died in 1882, it focused on how earthworms transform dirt and rotting leaves into soil." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Despite the occasional mass extinction, life and soils symbiotically grew and diversified through climate changes and shifting arrangements of continents. As soil completes the cycle of life by decomposing and recycling organic matter and regenerating the capacity to support plants, it serves as a filter that cleanses and converts dead stuff into nutrients that feed new life. Soil is the interface between the rock that makes up our planet and the plants and animals that live off sunlight and nutrients leached out of rocks." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The deepest layers of valley-hlling sediments date from glacial to interglacial climate changes during the past quarter million years. Higher layers in the stack of dirt tell of more recent episodes of hillslope erosion as well as intervening periods when soils developed. The first postglacial Figure 7. Parthenon. Albumen print by William James Stillman, 1869 (courtesy of Research Library, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California [92.R.84]). deposits of reworked hillslope soils in the valleys genetally date from the Bronze Age arrival of agriculture." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The savanna theory holds that our apelike ancestors abandoned the dark African forests and moved into the great grassy plains, perhaps because of climate changes that led to massive environmental change. In the forest, food was plentiful—fruits, nuts, and leaves could be found in abundance. But out in the savanna, life was tougher, so the theory goes, and our ancestors had to find new ways to get food. Males began to hunt bravely for meat among the herds of grazing animals." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Since all external influences, such as solar storms, climate changes and the moon's passage through a particular zodiac, represent different energy states, they can instantly trigger corresponding activities, responses and transformations within your body. As a result of receiving these outer stimulations, your body sends subtle signals or intuitive messages to tell you that its requirements for such necessities as food, water, rest, exercise, warmth and coolness have changed. However, this requires sensitivity and wakefulness on your part." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"By the 1970s there was general agreement that the temperature shifts and climate changes leading into and out of ice ages could occur over mere hundreds of years. Thousands were out, hundreds were in. Centuries were the new rapid. There was a new consensus around when—but a total lack of agreement about how. Perhaps methane bubbled up from tundra bogs and trapped the heat of the sun. Perhaps ice sheets broke off from the Antarctic and cooled the oceans." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) "And because everyone was certain that global climate changes took at least a thousand years, nobody even bothered to look at the evidence in a way that could reveal faster change. Those Swedish scientists studying the layers of lake bottom clay who first postulated the "rapid" thousand-year onset of the Younger Dryas? They were looking at chunks of mud spanning centuries; they never looked at samples small enough to demonstrate faster change." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"This may indeed, as suggested earlier, be the fastest large-scale climate warming the world has ever experienced - faster even than climate changes which caused catastrophic mass extinctions, as the following chapter will show. Particularly deceptive may be the impression that the PETM hot spell was well watered, with heavy monsoon rains quenching the thirst of places which are now semi-arid. In fact the first plant migrants to arrive in Wyoming were small-leaved and drought-tolerant, suggesting that the PETM began dry as well as hot." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Using the UK Hadley Centre's model for climate changes in the region by 2020, the scientific team concluded that up to a third of protea species would become threatened or endangered, whilst four would become completely extinct. In North America too, one degree of climate change could push a threatened species over the brink to extinction - and this one is cute and furry. According to WWF, pikas - small, hamsterlike creatures with rounded ears and bushy whiskers - are the first mammal to be endangered by climate change." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Surprisingly, the Amazon forest ecosystem turns out to have been remarkably resilient to past climate changes. Even during the chilly depths of the last ice age, the forest persisted relatively undisturbed, despite cooler temperatures and lower rainfall. The real problem for the Amazon, it turns out, is heat. In order to estimate the resilience of the Amazon to changes in climate, a joint UK Met Office/University College London team led by Sharon Cowling constructed a computer model which successfully managed to simulate rainforest changes during previous climatically cooler periods." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"In fact, there have been around a score of these abrupt climate changes over the last 110,000 years; the only truly stable period has been the last 11,000 years or so. Turns out, the present isn't the key to the past—it's the exception. The most likely suspect for the onset of the Younger Dryas and the sudden return to ice age temperatures across Europe is the breakdown of the ocean "conveyor belt," or thermohaline circulation, in the Atlantic Ocean." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"For example, the homeostatic process can adjust internal body temperature in response to climate changes that come with the changing seasons. However, allostasis is the term used to describe the condition of the body (under stress) when it's exposed to unexpected events such as a sudden drop in temperature or prolonged severe temperatures. In this case, the body must react, adapt, and regain homeostasis to survive. Biology of Allostasis There are many examples of the body adapting to achieve allostasis, which is stability through change." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Until a decade ago it was generally thought that all large-scale global and regional climate changes occurred gradually over many centuries or millennia, scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime, say Jonathan Adams, Mark Maslin, and Ellen Thomas in the journal Progress in Physical Geography? The tendency of climate to change relatively suddenly?within decades or even a few years—has been one of the most surprising outcomes of the study of earth history, specifically the last 150,000 years, said a 1993 article in Nature." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"By destroying the equatorial rainforests, and by our fervent burning of fossil fuels, we have caused an imbalance in our ecosystem that is contributing to the climate changes we are all experiencing. It appears our polar ice caps are melting and the water temperature of our seas is rapidly changing. The warm waters to the east of the United States and Mexico are setting the scene for destructive and frequent hurricanes. The cooling of the seas in Northern Europe threaten to divert the warming gulf-stream away, leading to the possibility of a new ice age in that part of the world." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"People have always lived with occasional hunger and malnutrition, disease, and parasites. These hazards have been part of daily life and are something quite different from not being able to forage enough food to feed everyone living in one's territory year after year. The carrying capacity of the land is a delicate balance between population density and the ability of any particular environment to support that population indefinitely. This equation of people and sustainability allows for such variables as seasonal rainfall, droughts, and short-term climatic shifts like El Nifios." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Remedicalization seems unlikely, but as the political climate changes, so could homosexuality's place on the continuum from medicalization to demedicalization. PART THREE Constraints and Consequences CHAPTER SIX Measuring Medicalization Categories, Numbers, and Treatment Since the early 1970s, when sociologists began to write about medicalization, they have always claimed that it is increasing. While this appears to be a common-sense conclusion, it is fair to ask, What evidence has been presented to support this claim?" - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Other factors, such as global warming, may be linked to unusually long-lasting periods of drought or floods, as well as sudden climate changes. Global warming in winter, specifically at the higher latitudes and at greater altitudes, reduces the size of glaciers and thus the stability of the climate. The climate in turn, specifically through extreme changes such as drought followed by extreme rainfall, leads to infestations by mosquitoes and rodents." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"A countertheory is that America's big mammals instead became extinct because of climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age, which (to confuse the interpretation for modern paleontologists) also happened around 11,000 b.c. Personally, I have the same problem with a climatic theory of megafau-nal extinction in the Americas as with such a theory in Australia / New Guinea. The Americas' big animals had already survived the ends of 22 previous Ice Ages. Why did most of them pick the 23rd to expire in concert, in the presence of all those supposedly harmless humans?" - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time. Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent. Still another factor tipping the balance away from hunting-gathering was the cumulative development of technologies on which food production would eventually depend—technologies for collecting, processing, and storing wild foods." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "That's why settlements, and by inference tribes, began to proliferate in the Fertile Crescent at that time, when climate changes and improved technology combined to permit abundant harvests of wild cereals. Besides differing from a band by virtue of its settled residence and its larger numbers, a tribe also differs in that it consists of more than one formally recognized kinship group, termed clans, which exchange marriage partners. Land belongs to a particular clan, not to the whole tribe." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "As we saw in Chapter 1, most large mammal species became extinct in North and South America at the end of the Pleistocene, and some became extinct in Eurasia and Africa, either because of climate changes or because of the rise in skill and numbers of human hunters. While the role of animal extinctions in eventually (after a long lag) nudging ancient Native Americans, Eurasians, and Africans toward food production can be debated, there are numerous incontrovertible cases on islands in more recent times." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Deforestation causes soil erosion, flooding, reduced agricultural capacity, loss of biodiversity and climate changes. In the past half-century, fossil fuel use has increased by 500%, and the number of automobiles has gone from 53 million to 520 million.31 Carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has increased by 30% in the earth's atmosphere in the past 150 years, contributing to global warming,32 and a cascade of environmental complications." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Clarifying these definitions is crucial, because much climate change work focuses on preventing climate changes, rather than adapting to them. Mitigation measures such as greenhouse gas reduction get most of the available resources, while efforts to open our adaptive umbrellas receive few. This is happening despite conclusions by many experts that climate changes are already underway and we need to adapt to them." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "Furthermore, studies of glacial ice cores suggest that other big climate changes occurred in only a few years, rather than across centuries. Professor Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, describes this in his book The Two-Mile Time Machine.4^ Alley undertook five expeditions to Greenland and two to Antarctica to gather ice core samples that hold records of climate changes. These are similar to the stories that tree rings tell, except that other clues such as dust are included and help to broaden the picture." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"The coumarin content in guaco (and any plant) can change and fluctuate due to where it was grown, how and when it was harvested, climate changes in the growing environment/season, and other natural phenomena. The coumarin content can be 10 percent in one harvest of guaco plants, and as low as 5 percent the following year, even when the same plants are harvested again only a year later. So, in this case, it just would not be a good idea to try to replace the drug with an herbal supplement." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

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