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from poor to rich soils, advancing from low to high harvests. To find solutions to problems, ICRISAT searched for the
problems first, among the people, not among the experts that were themselves. They teamed up with other
institutions and groups; they introduced the new ICRISAT to the public; they explored for sources of funds.
What they sought, they found. ICRISAT had been born again.
(4) Primate, come take the high road.
Primates all, we have refused to acknowledge the fact of global warming until it is this late. WE HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY,
AND IT IS US. So, in trying to defeat the enemy within us, let us defeat evil not with evil but with good.
Primates all, we have refused to
acknowledge the fact of global
warming until it is this late. WE
HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY, AND IT IS US. So,
in trying to defeat the enemy
within us, let us defeat evil not
with evil but with good.
retitled and rewritten as my contribution to the Blogal Village Voice:
The Ten Commandments Of Blog
So, primate bloggers, allow me to offer you what I wrote 19
months ago, ‘The (Real) Ten Commandments Of Blogging,’
published 15 Feb 2006 in my blogsite Blogging Rights
(braggingrights.blogspot.com). They are reality-based and clearly
patterned after The Ten Commandments of God. There are other
Ten Commandments of Blogging out there but none of those
sets are created equal, that is to say, the commandments in a
blogger’s ten are not mutually exclusive of each other, even as
they are convenient lists of ten things to do or not to do. In my
case, I wanted a real group of ten memorable, practical, Biblebased
commandments to help bloggers become constructive
rather than destructive, creative rather than critical, based on
my own writing experience of 50 years. So now, dedicated to a
higher good, I give you those ten commandments that I have
I.
I am the Lord, your Blog; thou shalt not have strange blogs before me. Don’t write blogs that are ambiguous,
indeterminate, hazy, fuzzy, muddled. Follow the 4 Cs of communication and be clear, concise, comprehensive,
coherent. And: Be convinced that your fight is right, in this instance, that the only way to combat climate
change is primate change – man has to change his attitude, from one of indifference to concern, and from
concern to concerted action, about greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere that deflate the ozone layer
and cause global warming. If that primate change has to begin with you, just do it!
II.
Thou shalt not take the name of your Blog in vain. Be serious, but do not swear when you blog. To be funny
or ridiculous? You choose. Be productive, but don’t lie, don’t fabricate, don’t exaggerate, don’t obfuscate,
Primate Change? Or Climate Change?