Basic Income Earth Network

essential to the very existence of human life on Earth (Saunders, n.d.). It is thus imperative that water is made available to humans in an acceptable quantity and quality (Mohanty, 2006) at any given time. Visually, this may seem easy enough to achieve given water is present all around us in various forms and mediums (eg. rainwater). However, the crux of this problem lies in the fact that humans can only consume freshwater. Up to 97.5% of the water on Earth is saline water and out of this…

breaching the peace, inciting a riot and vandalism. Therefore, the use these fighting words is not a violation of freedom of speech but also extremely dangerous both . Situations like Skokie supercede the law since they are advocating for respect and basic human decency. If not follow, not only will the idea of the government advocating for its citizens be in question, but also the government is risking the lives of its citizens to riots and violence. The Nazi’s demonstration should be cancelled…

GO FRUGAL: LESSONS FROM SLUM ARCHITECTURE Ar. Kamal Passi , Dr. Gaurav Raheja Abstract While the authorities struggle to find ways to cater to the problem of slums, thousands of shelters are being built daily without any major outside support or government scheme. If there is any possible access to land, people build homes and improvements are made over time. This quality must be identified as strength, and harnessed if India is to provide decent housing to its growing urban population.…

Aldo Leopold, who wrote “Thinking Like a Mountain”, coined the term Land Ethics. Land ethics expands the definition of “community” to include not only humans but all other parts of the earth such as soil, water, plants, animals, etc. (class notes). Leopold emphasized that everything has the right to survive and this right is not given by humans. In “Thinking Like a Mountain”, Leopold described how everything has a purpose. He stated that…

improvement are Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Product (GNP), the per capita income, level of industrialization, measure of broad base and general standard of living. Mongolia is one of pre-industrial economic nation which has experienced a drastic change in its economy as its GDP…

resulting in massive destruction of the rainforests of Madagascar. The drift of population to the towns, industrial expansion, and the conversion to farmland has led to the destruction of the forest. Biologically, Madagascar is one of the richest areas on earth, which is full of approximately five percent of the world’s species and 8,000 endemic species of flowering plants (New Scientist, 1990), but rapid deforestation caused by the needs of the immense population in this developing country and…

and medical care facilities in wealthier countries, like how education and proper health care is available, only the wealthier families could afford it. Through globalization, households will make higher incomes which may eventually enable a family to send their children to school and provide basic healthcare. As Jagdih Bhagwati explained, child labour will certainly diminish over time as growth occurs, partly due to globalization. A proposed bill called Harkin Child Deterrence Bill to…

1. Introduction “Slums are litmus tests for innate cultural strengths and weaknesses. Those people whose cultures can harbor extensive slum life without decomposing will be, relatively speaking, the future’s winners. Those whose cultures cannot will be the future’s victims.” (Kaplan, 1994) One of the biggest challenges that India has to face today is the augmented urbanisation as a result of the economic liberalisation. Close to 16 crore people have moved to cities in the past 20 years, and…

In this book, Guattari focus in the three ecologies in his conception of Ecosophy. Guattari’s argument that we have an erroneous conception of ecology of environmental struggle, he proposes ideas such as difference of opinion, political dissidence, Action to stand out again and Result of this action , break-up and the number of components in a system (such as a multiple or a group of energy levels). Also he proposes ideas such as strategies or processes towards a reconstruction of social and…

Various groups of people have long believed something differentiates themselves from others. Most take this further, claiming that they surpass all other peoples. This scheme of thought dominated early America, and continued to provide a justification for ethnocentric attitudes through the mid 19th century. In turn, these beliefs justified discrimination against others in all facets of American society, leading the Anglo-Saxon majority to snub recent immigrants, and in its extreme, perpetuate…