Mother Pelican - Journal of Sustainable Human Development - August 2011

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Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

The August 2011 issue has been posted:
Theme - Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n08page1.html

The outline for this issue is as follows:

     Page 1. Editorial Opinion ~ On the Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
     Page 2. The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, by Eugene A. Rosa, Donald Kennedy, Paul Ehrlich, Tom R. Burns, Ilan Kelman, Atle Midttun, and Nina Witoszek
     Page 3. Substantive Signification of Sustainability, by Arup Kanti Konar and Jayanta Chakrabortty
     Page 4. A sustainable development indicator for NGOs and international organisations, by David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen
     Page 5. Land Value Taxation � Panacea or Placebo, by Alanna Hartzok
     Page 6. Simulating Energy Transitions, by Emile Chappin
     Page 7. Increased Climatic Stress on High-Andean Ecosystems in the Cordillera Central of Colombia, by Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, Mar�a del Pilar Arroyave Maya, Mar�a Elena Guti�rrez Lagoueyte, and Paula Andrea Zapata Jaramillo
     Page 8. Gender equality between aspirations and realities, by Ioan Voicu
     Page 9. Gender Equity in Islam - Part 3: The Social Aspect, by Jamal Badawi

This issue also includes the following supplements:

     Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
     Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
     Supplement 3: Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
     Supplement 4: Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
     Supplement 5: Status of Gender Equality in Society
     Supplement 6: Status of Gender Equality in Religion

Please forward this notice to friends and colleagues who might be interested. We are actively seeking articles for publication.

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Guti�rrez, PhD, PE
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
http://pelicanweb.org

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[Martin Lewitt 2011 August 13 0957 MDT]

Land value taxation forces people living communally on their own land to participate in the free market system in order to obtain legal tender. The preponderance of land value taxation in the United States oppresses those who don't want to participate in the system. One of the demonstrations of the moral superiority of the free market system over communism was its tolerance for those who choose to live communally, while communists societies didn't tolerate capitalists. I've always opposed land value taxation because it forces participation. Fortunately it isn't intrinsic to the free market system and can be eliminated.

I don't see that article got past the reviewers.

-- Martin L

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On 8/13/2011 6:55 AM, Luis Gutierrez wrote:

Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

The August 2011 issue has been posted:
Theme - Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

The outline for this issue is as follows:

Page 1. Editorial Opinion ~ On the Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
Page 2. The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, by Eugene A. Rosa, Donald Kennedy, Paul Ehrlich, Tom R. Burns, Ilan Kelman, Atle Midttun, and Nina Witoszek
Page 3. Substantive Signification of Sustainability, by Arup Kanti Konar and Jayanta Chakrabortty
Page 4. A sustainable development indicator for NGOs and international organisations, by David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen
Page 5. Land Value Taxation � Panacea or Placebo, by Alanna Hartzok
Page 6. Simulating Energy Transitions, by Emile Chappin
Page 7. Increased Climatic Stress on High-Andean Ecosystems in the Cordillera Central of Colombia, by Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, Mar�a del Pilar Arroyave Maya, Mar�a Elena Guti�rrez Lagoueyte, and Paula Andrea Zapata Jaramillo
Page 8. Gender equality between aspirations and realities, by Ioan Voicu
Page 9. Gender Equity in Islam - Part 3: The Social Aspect, by Jamal Badawi

This issue also includes the following supplements:

Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 4: Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 5: Status of Gender Equality in Society
Supplement 6: Status of Gender Equality in Religion

Please forward this notice to friends and colleagues who might be interested. We are actively seeking articles for publication.

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Guti�rrez, PhD, PE
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
http://pelicanweb.org

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[From Bill Powers (2011.08.13.1336 MDT)]

Martin Lewitt 2011 August 13 0957 MDT –

Land value taxation forces
people living communally on their own land to participate in the free
market system in order to obtain legal tender. The preponderance of land
value taxation in the United States oppresses those who don’t want to
participate in the system.

That’s just awful, but think about my problems, beside which yours
fade into insignificance. In the first place, consider the highway system
in which I am forced to participate by driving on straight flat roads,
without regard to the direction I want to go and without the option of
having fun by bouncing up and down. I’m required to participate in the
retail system by paying, yes paying, for my food and entertainment
without being given any control over what kinds are available and with
whom I have to deal in getting them. When I want to look at the beautiful
mountains around here, I find trees and government buildings in the way,
and I am not allowed (on pain of severe and unfair punishment) to remove
these unsightly obstacles to my viewing. I am forced to participate in
group viewing of the evening news on television, because the scheduling
of programs is decided by somebody else with no regard for when I decide
for myself to do so. I could go on and on about this, because there
appears to be no concern on anyone’s part that my life be ordered as I
see fit, instead of by the oppressive, selfish, and immoral whims of
others. Why aren’t my wishes anticipated and fulfilled by those whose
irresponsible behavior interferes with me at every turn? All I ask is
that I be left alone to behave any way I want, when I want, and where I
want, and that that my personal liberty be given the respect it deserves
by all those with less sensitivity to issues of personal independence
than I have, which means essentially everyone but me. Even you, Martin,
are just an ineffectual whiner in comparison with my mastery of the
Injustice Mode. Why don’t you just refuse to pay those taxes and stand
your ground like a Real Man? And by the way, what is the address of that
property, and its current market value?

Yours in indignation and protest,

Bill P.

P.S. What is the local newspaper near you that publishes announcements of
tax sales? Just a random thought, you know.

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[From Bill Powers (2011.08.13.1336 MDT)]

  Martin Lewitt 2011 August 13 0957 MDT --

    Land value taxation

forces
people living communally on their own land to participate in the
free
market system in order to obtain legal tender. The preponderance
of land
value taxation in the United States oppresses those who don’t
want to
participate in the system.

  That's just awful, but think about *my* problems, beside

which yours
fade into insignificance. In the first place, consider the highway
system
in which I am forced to participate by driving on straight flat
roads,
without regard to the direction I want to go and without the
option of
having fun by bouncing up and down.

Sorry I didn't know.

  I'm required to participate in the

retail system by paying, yes paying, for my food and entertainment
without being given any control over what kinds are available and
with
whom I have to deal in getting them.

You could grow your own, or live on a commune or barter, although

the government may still try to collect a sales tax on the latter.

  When I want to look at the beautiful

mountains around here, I find trees and government buildings in
the way,
and I am not allowed (on pain of severe and unfair punishment) to
remove
these unsightly obstacles to my viewing. I am forced to
participate in
group viewing of the evening news on television, because the
scheduling
of programs is decided by somebody else with no regard for when I
decide
for myself to do so.

200 channels and nothing to watch, I feel your pain.

  I could go on and on about this, because there

appears to be no concern on anyone’s part that my life be ordered
as I
see fit, instead of by the oppressive, selfish, and immoral whims
of
others. Why aren’t my wishes anticipated and fulfilled by those
whose
irresponsible behavior interferes with me at every turn? All I ask
is
that I be left alone to behave any way I want, when I want, and
where I
want, and that that my personal liberty be given the respect it
deserves
by all those with less sensitivity to issues of personal
independence
than I have, which means essentially everyone but me. Even you,
Martin,
are just an ineffectual whiner in comparison with my mastery of
the
Injustice Mode.

You view opportunities as an injustice, I view coercion as an

injustice.

  Why don't you just refuse to pay those taxes and

stand
your ground like a Real Man? And by the way, what is the address
of that
property, and its current market value?

Of course, I'm trying to remove the property taxes by political

means, but then I want to obtain legal tender. It is those who
don’t want to participate in the system, that are forced to by
property taxes that I have sympathy for.

  Yours in indignation and protest,

So I guess you found that article in Mother Pelican to be a paragon

of intellectual rigor?

  Bill P.



  P.S. What is the local newspaper near you that publishes

announcements of
tax sales? Just a random thought, you know.

Save the communes!  Lets exempt them from taxes!

-- Martin L
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On 8/13/2011 2:25 PM, Bill Powers wrote:

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[Martin Lewitt 2011 Aug 13 2212 MDT]

"The working hypothesis that emerges from this series is that the "ball of hair" can be disentangled if, and only if, two issues are resolved: divisive gender inequalities and greasy fossil fuels. Gender inequalities are the most universal source of disunity and hostility in human affairs. In today's world, fossil fuels provide the grease that makes the "ball of hair" sticky and practically impossible to comb."

Wow, such rigor!. Why do I get the impression they are trying to entangle two orthogonal issues, rather the disentangle anything? How is gender inequality "the most universal source of disunity and hostility"? Tribalism, religion, nationalism, and collectivism all seem more legitmate candidates for this "universal". The only recent war that has been fought over gender inequality is Afghanistan, we are afraid as heck for the women if the Taliban gets back in power, so are probably staying there longer than we should. Even the energy and fossil fuels being discussed in the same issue seem a greater source of disunity and hostility than gender inequality. I'm as aware as anybody of the hostile treatment of women such as Palin, Bachmann and Hillary Clinton, but the issue is not advanced by such unrealistic hyperbole.

-- Martin L

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On 8/13/2011 6:55 AM, Luis Gutierrez wrote:

Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

The August 2011 issue has been posted:
Theme - Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

The outline for this issue is as follows:

Page 1. Editorial Opinion ~ On the Confluence of Gender Equality and Clean Energy
Page 2. The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, by Eugene A. Rosa, Donald Kennedy, Paul Ehrlich, Tom R. Burns, Ilan Kelman, Atle Midttun, and Nina Witoszek
Page 3. Substantive Signification of Sustainability, by Arup Kanti Konar and Jayanta Chakrabortty
Page 4. A sustainable development indicator for NGOs and international organisations, by David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen
Page 5. Land Value Taxation � Panacea or Placebo, by Alanna Hartzok
Page 6. Simulating Energy Transitions, by Emile Chappin
Page 7. Increased Climatic Stress on High-Andean Ecosystems in the Cordillera Central of Colombia, by Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, Mar�a del Pilar Arroyave Maya, Mar�a Elena Guti�rrez Lagoueyte, and Paula Andrea Zapata Jaramillo
Page 8. Gender equality between aspirations and realities, by Ioan Voicu
Page 9. Gender Equity in Islam - Part 3: The Social Aspect, by Jamal Badawi

This issue also includes the following supplements:

Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 4: Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 5: Status of Gender Equality in Society
Supplement 6: Status of Gender Equality in Religion

Please forward this notice to friends and colleagues who might be interested. We are actively seeking articles for publication.

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Guti�rrez, PhD, PE
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
http://pelicanweb.org

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[From Richard Kennaway (2011.08.14.1457 BST)]

Martin, I don't think it's worth engaging with the "Mother Pelican" stuff, certainly not here. It has nothing to do with PCT and the poster does not otherwise participate here.

Has whoever runs this list suggested to Luis Gutierrez that he stop posting it here? If not, I suggest that they so suggest to him.

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--
Richard Kennaway, jrk@cmp.uea.ac.uk, http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
School of Computing Sciences,
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.