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Once Upon a Time… The Thumb Ruled

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Imagine your right thumb (have a closer look) gets a blessing and becomes highly intelligent and uses that to become the biggest, the largest, the healthiest, the smartest and so on. It manages to do this again & again… some times by starving little pinky and at other times by threatening the pointer. The growth & progress of the thumb was stupendous and one day it grew larger than its hand. It garnered a lot more power & position in the body due to its sheer weight. It got higher voting rights and even got a Board seat! Brain & Heart were side-lined.  Do you think that the body will suffer if such a thing really happened? You are absolutely right! The pinky & pointer were starving to death. The hand found it increasingly difficult to function. The body got imbalanced & tilted. But thumb had great influence and directed everyone to sacrifice & do their best in such times of great crisis and save the only body they all had. He announced subsidie...

Changing The World BY Changing Consumption

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The Story of Stuff One of the world’s leading voices on the issue of climate change and protecting the environment at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference was Dr. Jane Goodall, a renowned primatologist. In one of her interviews, she explains that she came to Paris for the UN climate summit “to save the rain forests” from corruption and intensive farming. “Well, the thing is, it’s not about one person, and can they make a difference? Everybody everyday does make a difference. And if we think about the consequences of the choices we make — what we buy, what we eat and consume, what we wear—and we start making the right ethical choices, then when that’s multiplied a thousand, a million, a billion, several billion times, we see the world moving towards change. So the most important thing is to give people hope. I have seen areas that have been destroyed that have come back to be beautiful again and support life. Nature is resilient. Animal species on the brink of extinction can be given a...