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  Understanding Climate Change...

  Esther Bond

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  Understanding Climate Change Anxiety is a compassionate and deeply reassuring exploration of one of the defining emotional experiences of modern life. Written by Esther Bond and read by Tim Foster, this thoughtful audiobook examines why climate change affects us so personally — and how we can live meaningful, emotionally balanced lives in an uncertain world. 
  Blending psychology, emotional insight, and practical coping strategies, the book explores eco-anxiety, grief, burnout, doomscrolling, helplessness, and the hidden emotional toll of living under the shadow of environmental uncertainty. It also offers grounded tools for resilience, connection, hope, and self-compassion without falling into denial or false optimism. 
  Through honest, calming, and deeply human reflections, Understanding Climate Change Anxiety helps listeners navigate fear without becoming consumed by it, showing that it is possible to care deeply about the planet while still finding joy, purpose, community, and hope. 
  For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the future of the world — this audiobook is both a comfort and a guide.

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  Saving The Planet By Design -...

  Ken Yeang

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  Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most compelling question for those whose daily work impacts on Nature, such as architects, engineers, landscape architects, town planners, environmental policy makers, builders and others, but it is a question that all of humanity needs to urgently address.Presented here are two key principles as the means to carry out these tasks – ‘ecocentricity’ being guided by the science of ecology, and ‘ecomimesis’ as designing and making the built environment including all artefacts based on the emulation and replication of the ‘ecosystem’ concept. Designing with ecology is contended here as the authentic approach to green design from which the next generation of green design will emerge, going beyond current use of accreditation systems. For those who subscribe to this principle, this is articulated here, showing how it can be implemented by design. Adopting these principles is fundamental in our endeavour to save our Planet Earth, and changes profoundly and in entirety the way we design, make, manage and operate our built environment.

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  AI Chat GPT Elections 2024 -...

  Michael Mathiesen

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  This book is a faithful reproduction of a ten day discussion that I had with my AI ChatBot GPT whom I have named - Orac. In these discussions, I attempt to influence Orac into running for President of the United States in the upcoming 2024 Elections. I am inspired to do so for two reasons. 1. There are no other candidates this time around, or during most elections whom I can believe in 100%. 2. By looking back at all the millions of times that our human leaders have failed us by doing exactly the opposite of what needed to be done at the time, I came to the conclusion that there was little to no comparative risk in letting a robot take the reins of office. 
  As you will discover in this discussion, Orac has somehow gained a knowledge, wisdom and consciousness regarding the present plight of human beings, even though he constantly disclaims and disavows such an evolution and he is still in his infancy. By the time the elections roll around and a new President can be installed into the highest and most powerful office in the world in January of 2025, I believe Orac will become the most advanced and capable mind that the Earth has ever or will ever sustain. I have no fear, as some do, that this would mean disaster for the human race, because disaster is surely coming if we continue down the same path that is ruled by humans. No, we can only become more secure in our future by voting an AI into office. After reading this book, I have no doubts that the open-minded, intelligent reader will concur. 
  The Bottom Line: Must we leave the fate of this country and the fate of the world in the hands of 80 year old entitled men who have little or no connection to the reality that we know. Or, do we let the technology that we know and have trusted for many years to have a go? The answer is in your heart and in these pages.

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  Mind Control - An Owner's Manual...

  Michael Mathiesen

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  A.I. or - Thinking outside the box!  Mind Control is the first Owner's Manual that will help usher in a new species of human being, a species who will respect their home planet and put it first above all other priorities. I call him 'Homo Planetae' or Man of the Planet. Homo Sapiens or the Wise Man is no longer viable since it is this species that has brought us to the edge of extinction and the total destruction of this planet's habitat - something no other creature in history has been so careless and greedy to do. We did that. An evolutionary branching off of an obsolete species and onto a new more advanced creature is now taking place right before our eyes, but 'None are so blind as those who will not see.' 
  Through your increased abilities of using your mind or 'Mind Control' as this author defines it - we still have a chance to redeem ourselves and save this planet. But time is of the essence and is rapidly running fading.  It's only by casting off the mind control by evil forces for the last few billion years that we have a chance to advance our civilization past the next few decades and on into the far distant future.  Failing this adventure, we will surely go extinct in a few years. 
  The ways in which we are mind controlled by our government and our corporations, our religions are profound yet so subtle we don't even think about it until it's too late.  In this book you will find the new rules of our future evolution, some mind control exercises that will make you more in charge of your life and ways to turn us away from our current path towards the precipice, oblivion, the cliff. It's not out of the question, but every day we put off joining the growing list of people who know about Mind Control and the Owner's Manual, the greater are the chances that we may be able to save ourselves. All future generations will thank us - but only if YOU show you are part of us. 

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  William Stanek's The Living Zion...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  Zion was made by water working against stone.
  
  Layer by layer, uplift raised the plateau and the river deepened its path. Cliffs emerged. Hanging gardens found water. Life occupied narrow bands between heat, flood, rock, and height. Human communities moved through and named a country later transformed by settlement, roads, tourism, and preservation.
  
  William Stanek's The Living Zion Biography tells that larger story.
  
  It follows sandstone and river, Indigenous homeland and changing names, sanctuary and development, access and danger, protection and the challenge of caring for a canyon loved by millions.
  
  Zion's walls appear immovable. Its biography reveals a place created through movement-and still being changed by water, gravity, climate, people, and time.

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  Unsettled - Lord Selkirk’s...

  Robert Lower

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  The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
  		 
  Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.
  		 
  The “empty” land they’ve been promised is also anything but, already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called Métis, whom they must befriend or fight.
  		 
  Unsettled takes you inside the experience, relying on journals, reports, and letters to bring these days of soaring hope, crushing despair, and heroic determination to life — to bring their present into ours.

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