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"Catastrophic events like car accidents, terrorist bombings, or natural disasters are intensely stressful and debilitating and have severely negative consequences for individuals, families, and entire segments of society. Our environment also creates stress—too much harsh sound, rush hour traffic, long lines. Societal expectations end up becoming our own, and so we stress as we strive to earn a decent salary, live in a good neighborhood, wear attractive clothes, have perfect hair, own the right car, and be actively involved in the affairs of school, church, and community." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"The cataclysm produced by hurricane Katrina made people "find their feet" and march on Washington to protest the administration's policy of focusing on the oil war in Iraq to the neglect of preparedness for natural disasters and the plight of poor people at home. Will humanity wait for a natural or man-made catastrophe that kills hundreds of thousands or millions to come up with the will to change? It may then be too late. We must, and still can, head toward a timely shift in values, vision, and behaviors." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"While we've always had natural disasters to contend with, a new class of threats that Rees calls "human induced" now have to be taken into account as well. Emerging studies, such as those reported in Scientific American's special issue entitled "Crossroads for Planet Earth" (September 2005), echo Rees's warning, telling us: "The next 50 years will be decisive in determining whether the human race—now entering a unique period in its history—can ensure the best possible future for itself [my emphasis]." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "He begins by describing the possibility of a future civilization that has survived the threats of war, disease, and natural disasters to become what he calls "posthuman." He then identifies three scenarios through a complex statistical analysis (omitted here for simplicity) and argues that at least one of them is true. The possibilities are as follows: 1. Some catastrophic event (such as a global war, natural disaster, widespread disease, and so on) will destroy us before we ever reach the posthuman stage. 2." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"NASA scientists digitized seven earlier aerial and satellite photographs of the same beach and were able to show that the new ridge formed between 1970 and 1975 as a result of two natural disasters. A 7.7 Richter scale earthquake in 1970 killed more than sixty thousand people and generated huge landslides in the adjacent dry mountains. The strong El Nino of 1972-1973 brought torrential rains that carried the earthquake debris downstream and deposited it at the mouth of the Santos River." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Dense urban populations in circumscribed environments require highly productive agriculture just to survive, let alone make it through drought cycles or natural disasters. For over five thousand years the household and the village had been the basic economic units that fed humanity. Families still fed themselves. Throughout history, the anonymous farmer always supported the elaborate superstructure of preindustrial civilization. Increasingly, agriculture became a matter of irrigation systems and canals, large-scale communal projects, taxation, and centralized grain storage." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Centralization of resources will prevent rapid distribution of food and medicines. natural disasters have been low on federal priorities. Hurricane Katrina showed us that nature is more powerful than terrorists and more unpredictable, even if we know the trajectory. A tear in the fabric of society is upon us. With the breakdown brought about by a super flu, borders would be closed and international flights suspended. Schools and other places where people come in close contact, like theatres, would also be closed. National security may become vulnerable; insurgency and terrorism might escalate." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"In recent years there has been a considerable increase in severity of natural disasters and international health calamities. Our world is waiting for us to awaken and turn away from the brink of disaster. We have our work cut out for us. However, if we start Consciously Creating and committing ourselves to action now, success will be ours! There is no time to waste. According to the Weather Channel, in 2005 the Atlantic Basin saw the most Category 5 hurricanes ever charted in one year." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"In late 2005, Iran put its first satellite into orbit, a small observation satellite designed to monitor local agricultural conditions and natural disasters. Sina-i was launched from Siberia on a Russian-built rocket. Like Iran, South Africa uses foreign launch vehicles for its space efforts, and has put two satellites into orbit. By far the most ambitious developing-world space program outside of China is in India. India operates three launch facilities, and has put dozens of satellites into orbit." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "AS Environmental Peacemaking ¦¦¦¦ In a world where natural systems are strained to the limit and billions of people struggle daily to survive, what we're used to calling "natural disasters" are growing both more common and more dangerous. They are inherently more destructive than they used to be (thanks in part to climate change), but they also feed into (and their effects are made worse by) ongoing humanitarian crises and violent conflicts. The idea that poverty, the environment, and security are linked is not a new one." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"History is littered with tales of creatures acting oddly before natural disasters, but the phenomenon has been hard for science to pin down. Animals do not have the human capacity to reason, but their physical senses are acute and, like us, they feel. Their feelings are intelligent, carrying simple messages like food, danger, and safe. Measurable or not, a perceptible force moves ahead of an event like a tsunami and animals seem to sense it. What we notice with our physical senses, what is apparent based on what we know from previous experience, is frequently only a portion of what is." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"So will natural disasters, which are unlikely to see even the inadequate level of response that followed Hurricane Katrina. Finally, when social and geopolitical conditions have deteriorated sufficiently, there will be other, potentially more pernicious threats. More than likely, Americans will be confronted by an unfamiliar and frightening array of legal, financial, and security restrictions, including lockdowns, curfews, internments, capital and exchange controls, and even martial law." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Neither, for that matter, is the idea that a healthy environment can buffer the worst effects of natural disasters while providing critical ecosystem services [see Ecosystem Services, p. 486]. It all works together, or it doesn't work at all. The good news is that these holistic approaches are already catching on, and those who respond to crises have started thinking in multiple arenas and across multiple disciplines. Winning a war doesn't always create a useful peace." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Couple with this our need to become petrochemical raiders and the accumulation of heavy debt through natural disasters as well as foreign policy entanglements; this, combined with the expensive and costly warring our fossil fuel addiction causes, bankrupts our treasury. Our nation experiences ever more stress by such massive refugee movements from Mexico and South America (as border security zealots have never imagined in their worst nightmare). Who knows if we might not be responsible for the civil wars of other nations?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Imagine massive regional wildfires in Arizona, Southern California, and New Mexico, with annual massive flooding in Utah and the Midwest, and landslides throughout coastal California—all regular events—ever more intense, the nation in a state of constant environmental crisis caused by natural disasters within and at war without, due to our excessive reliance on fossil fuels. Such North American-based disasters are bad enough." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Old geographical and national boundaries do seem to be dissolving: young Britons feel as close to Friends and Neighbours in New York and Melbourne as those in their own street, and the world community reacts as one to sporting triumphs and natural disasters. Television has already helped bring about the change in women's status: if it continues to challenge ancient prejudices it could also help overcome racism, homophobia and other social evils." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "There seem so many things to worry about now -health issues, all sorts of possible accidents, crime and violence, paedophiles and other people with evil intent, natural disasters - and all of these receive copious coverage in the media. But when the gathering paranoia begins to threaten children's emotional, social and intellectual development, we have to confront the problem. One obvious way to avoid unnecessary anxiety is to limit exposure to distressing news." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Added to this we have an impoverished Third World suffering deeply from the devastating effects of famine, disease and natural disasters; and the ever-present threats of terrorism borne out of fundamentalist idealism. From my perspective, if we are to adapt adequately to these enormous challenges, it will require an unselfish degree of cooperation between all people of all nations, the likes of which we have never experienced in our history. This is no time for humans to harbor personal guilt, or deep resentment for the past actions of others." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Stockpile food and water: If the Florida hurricanes of 2004 and the hurricanes that hit New Orleans and Mexico in 2005 taught us anything at all about surviving natural disasters, it is that we can't depend on the government, so be well prepared with water and food. Plant an herb garden: If you're in the southern climates, antiviral and other medicinal herbs will grow all year round. If you're in the north, grow herbs in the summer and dry them for use during the winter. If you can't grow your own, order dried herbs or buy them from your local natural foods store." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"But many places also have their predictably recurrent natural disasters: wildfires, Hoods, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. These catastrophes are every bit as native to the places we live as the birds and trees. To truly know our home places, we have to know not only how they flourish, but also how they break. The extent to which catastrophes disrupt human lives often depends on whether the infrastructure of settlement has taken predictable catastrophes into account, or denied their existence." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Small societies are particularly vulnerable to disruption of key lifelines, such as trading relations, or to large perturbations like wars or natural disasters. Larger societies, with more diverse and extensive resources, can rush aid to disaster victims. But the complexity that brings resilience may also impede adaptation and change, producing social inertia that maintains collectively destructive behavior. Consequently, large societies have difficulty adapting to slow change and remain vulnerable to problems that eat away their foundation, such as soil erosion." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Although usually portrayed as natural disasters, crop failures and famines often owe as much to land abuse as to natural calamities. SEVEN Dust Blow One man cannot stop the dust from blowing but one man can start it. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION NORTHERN CANADA MESMERIZED ME THE FIRST TIME I flew Over the pole from Seattle to London on a clear day. While the other passengers enjoyed some Hollywood epic, I drank in the vast plain of bare rock and shallow lakes crawling by six miles below." - 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.)

"Terrorist bombings, military operations, and |( is precisely the natural disasters monopolize his attention. purpose of the public Watching the news reiterates his assumption that opinion generated by the world is a mess, and provides reassurance that ^ press to ma|life isn't so bad relative to others. Flicking the ... . , , . . . ,. , ... r public incapable of channel changer gives him the illusory power or . , . . , i j ?-c judging, to insinuate control over his environment and instant gratihca- ? ? • n , u .1 u into it the attitude of tion." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Experts the world over have documented in exacting detail (not guesses or estimates, but actual scientific measurements) shrinking ice shelves, receding mountain glaciers, eroding beaches, rising temperatures, and a dramatic increase in the number, size, and force of natural disasters. In December 2004, a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed an estimated 283,000 people. Also in 2004, there were fifteen named storms in the Atlantic, seven of them graduating to hurricane status." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The fact that soldiers are also deployed to rescue people and help guard property after natural disasters does not alter their primary role. It took centuries of terrible wars before people began to recognize that because the state is par excellence an instrument of violence and because the church ought to be par excellence an instrument of nonviolence, the two should get a divorce or at least a legal separation. By the same token, medicine and the state should also get a divorce." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"But in subsequent years PTSD has expanded to include survivors of sexual abuse, rape, violence, or natural disasters, and even people who have witnessed violence or disaster (W. Scott, 1990; Young, 1995). The medicalization of alcoholism, especially as defined by Alcoholics Anonymous, has expanded to include adult children of alcoholics, enablers, and especially codependents (L. Irvine, 1999)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"The Mexican Association for Crisis Therapy has used TAT with children after several natural disasters. The process can even be taught to large groups or be used for pets. Tapas Fleming explains the technique in her book You Can Heal Now: The Tapas Acupressure Technique. The process can also be learned from books and DVDs available on her website and at seminars taught by certified TAT trainers. As an energy-based technique with minimum contact most states do not require any licensing but please check the restrictions and requirements in your area." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"It may also give us some understanding of how animals can respond, and warn us of natural disasters that are about to happen. This has profound implications for healing. Firstly, it adds some scientific credence to the whole area of intuition, suggesting a natural sixth sense, independent of time and space that is available to all. Together with the remote viewing studies, it begins to clarify the mechanisms at work when gifted intuitives, such as Carolyn Myss and the late Edgar Cayce, can know so much about a client in an instance and often at a great distance." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Natural Disasters Whether it's tornadoes in the nation's midsection, hurricanes on the Gulf and East coasts, or earthquakes on the West Coast, every year natural disasters occur throughout the United States. Fortunately, the possibility of any of these disasters hitting a specific community can be predicted, so you have time to take cover, if necessary. TORNADO Spring is tornado season in the South and Midwest. Tornadoes spring from turbulence generated in the collision of fast-moving, warm, moist air." - Linda Mason Hunter, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Get the book.)

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