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94 19. THE CHILDREN OF MAIDANEK. OR, DRAWING GAS & DRAWING BUTTERFLIES I’m looking at a visible universe on the road to Dabda, a word I have just invented, the acronym for the 5 stages of grief according to Swiss psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Denial > Anger > Bargaining > Depression > Acceptance. Shifting paradigm, I say to those who deny global warming, look at Dabda as a global warning from Ms Elisabeth, who presented Dabda as a psychological road map to the world some 40 years ago. The world is in the first stage: Denial. We even deny that we are denying. I’m walking on a parallel, invisible universe; I’m on the road to Taniap, turning a negative into a positive, the route to take if we want to go from bad to worship, from fire to fresh air, from dying to living again. The best thing that ever happened to Ms Elisabeth was a global warning in her head that dying was about living. ‘Teacher Of Life’ (wic.org), this Swiss-American studied terminally ill patients and wrote her seminal book On Death And Dying in 1969, introducing the idea of ‘5 stages of dying’ or ‘5 stages of grief’ (growthhouse.org). In teaching the world about dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross taught the world about living. In teaching the world about global losing, with An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore is teaching us about global winning. Ms Elisabeth was a pioneering woman of deeds – among others, she fought and won for the rights of dying patients, ‘including hospice care, living wills, and speaking openly about life and death’ (elisabethkublerross.com).
95 And for all that, on 29 March 1999, Time listed her among ‘Time 100,’ the magazine honoring ‘The Great Minds Of The Century’ (time.com). So I want to speak openly about living and dying on this planet, of this planet. While Terra Cognita is not yet terminally ill, we must now recognize that we have to talk globally and locally about life and death, the Eternal Circle, and that, learning from Ms Elisabeth, in fact we can for instance apply the concept of Living Wills to mitigate global warming. Living Wills for Climate Change can be in the form of grants for projects for R&D in biofuels, and loans for enterprises to encourage villagers to blanket Planet Earth with gas-guzzling green monsters - that is to say, plants harvesting carbon dioxide from the air, decreasing air pollution. An intelligent species nursing wastelands back to life with its own refuse; for this, we already have the crop: Sweet Sorghum. In 2002, FAO called it the ‘camel among crops’ because it can Living Wills for Climate Change can be in the form of grants for projects for R&D in biofuels, and loans for enterprises to encourage villagers to blanket Planet Earth with gas-guzzling green monsters - that is to say, plants harvesting carbon dioxide from the air, decreasing air pollution. grow in problem soils: dry or wet, salty or sweet (fao.org). A Survivor Crop. We must learn from the camel and be a Survivor Species. Now I dare say global warming is the best thing that ever happened to farmers in the tropics, for now they have to face the reality that they can no longer be profligate with water, and they can plant a survivor crop where no other crop dare grow. Sweet Sorghum? In the United States, Sorgo used to be big; in 1888, the total US production was 20 million gallons of syrup, mostly from family farms in neighborhoods with one farmer with a mill for squeezing the canes and an evaporating pan for cooking the syrup (Ken Christison & Keith Kinney, 2002, herculesengines.com). Kentucky syrup alone in 1994 was worth $8 M, a mere half of Kentucky’s potential (Morris J Bitzer, ca.uky.edu). According to Morris, community Sorgo projects of one or more counties are becoming common. Family farms and community projects - the Sorgo potential is all there. They are all to the good - if only we can bring ourselves to graduate from the stages of Denial of Global Warming to Anger to Bargaining to Depression to Acceptance. I’m thinking you don’t know global warm if you are in a cold country. That is bad enough. You don’t know global hot until you are in the tropics, such as the Philippines. It’s badder such as it is. I’m half naked as I write this, and it’s May, traditionally the onset of the rainy season, and it’s only 0944 hours in Manila. I’m actually in good old cool Los Baños, not anymore the summer capital of Southern Luzon. The air is dry and hot even inside the apartment. If you don’t call this global warming, you’re using a different language. Or you don’t call a spade a spade. The Children Of Maidanek
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Page 86 and 87: 76 His maternal uncle helped him th
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Page 92 and 93: 82 A global crop - Sweet sorghum us
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Page 122 and 123: 112 (6) Primate, come declare your
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Page 126 and 127: 116 IGNRM … is a powerful integra
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