Polly Higgins on Corporate Tyranny

Polly Higgins on Corporate Tyranny

Polly Higgins, a British barrister who spent years campaigning for courts and governments to recognize ecocide as a major international crime, died Sunday of cancer. She was 50 years old. Polly Higgins drafted model laws defining the crime of ecocide and authored two books on the subject. She proposed making ecocide a crime on par with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. “We are legally advising on ecocide crime to become an international crime at the International Criminal Court. Ecocide is the extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems. Existing law does not go far enough in terms of stopping serious harm, ecological harm and climactic harm. We’re talking about criminal law here, so you’re looking at CEOs, directors, ministers, heads of state, who can be held to account within an International Criminal Court.”

“There Is a Woman: 30, No Children.” An Enlightening Article About How Blind We Can Be to Other’s Feelings

Crying Woman

Sometimes, we say words to other people that don’t mean much to us, just to avoid an awkward silence. Just to say something. And we have no idea how people will react to these words. Writer Nadirah Angail published a moving entry in her blog about how easy it is to hurt other people and not even notice it. She wants to make us more attentive and sensitive.

https://brightside.me/inspiration-girls-stuff/there-is-a-woman-30-no-children-a-staggering-article-about-how-blind-we-can-be-to-others-feelings-720010/

Labor To Sell The Farm

Labor To Sell The Farm

This is blatant treason. What happens as soon as there is a food shortage in China and all our produce gets diverted to there? Huh? Answer me that you treasonous criminal! How does that benefit Australians!

https://morningmail.org/penny-wong-sell-the-farm-china/

Trust Yourself

Trust Yourself

Now there is a very large, unspoken caveat for this meme. That you be worthy of trust. And there are two qualities that are prerequisites to trust – competence and reliability. Does the person have the competence required and can they be relied upon? So if you are to be worthy of trust you must be competent and reliable. Can you do everything you would like to be able to do? Do you do everything you say you are going to do by when you say you are going to do it? Even the tasks you set yourself? Those are pretty high standards. But the closer you get to attaining them the happier you will be with yourself. This I know for a fact.