We are facing the greatest threat to humanity

Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical

We all know that the earth and all upon it face a growing crisis. Global climate change is rapidly advancing, melting glaciers, eroding soil, causing freak and increasingly wild storms, and displacing untold millions from rural communities to live in desperate poverty in peri-urban slums. Almost every human victim lives in the global South, in communities not responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The atmosphere has already warmed up almost a full degree in the last several decades and a new Canadian study reports that we may be on course to add another 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

Half the tropical forests in the world – the lungs of our ecosystems – are gone; by 2030, at the current rate of harvest, only 10% will be left standing. Ninety percent of the big fish in the sea are gone, victim to wanton predatory fishing practices. Says a prominent scientist studying their demise “there is no blue frontier left.” Half the world’s wetlands – the kidneys of our ecosystems – were destroyed in the 20th century. Species extinction is taking place at a rate one thousand times greater than before humans existed. According to a Smithsonian scientist, we are headed toward a “biodiversity deficit” in which species and ecosystems will be destroyed at a rate faster than Nature can create new ones.

We are polluting our lakes, rivers and streams to death. Every day, 2 million tons of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are discharged into the world’s water, the equivalent of the weight of the entire human population of 6.8 billion people. The amount of wastewater produced annually is about six times more water than exists in all the rivers of the world. A comprehensive new global study recently reported that 80% of the world’s rivers are now in peril, affecting 5 billion people on the planet. We are also mining our groundwater far faster than nature can replenish it, sucking it up to grow water-guzzling chemical-fed crops in deserts or to water thirsty cities that dump an astounding 200 trillion gallons of land-based water as waste in the oceans every year. The global mining industry sucks up another 200 trillion gallons, which it leaves behind as poison. Fully one third of global water withdrawals are now used to produce biofuels, enough water to feed the world. A recent global survey of groundwater found that the rate of depletion more than doubled in the last half century. If water was drained as rapidly from the Great Lakes, they would be bone dry in 80 years.


Resource.http://www.alternet.org/water/148519/

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White Rhino And Calf

The Guardian UK reports: “The committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (C.I.T.E.S.) warned last year that rhino poaching had reached an all-time high. The CITES conference in Geneva in July 2009 heard that Asia’s economic expansion had fueled the market in rhino horns. The horns are also used in the Middle East to make handles for ornamental daggers. Cites said demand for them had begun to soar in recent years. In the five years up to 2005, an average of only 36 rhinos had been killed each year.”


Whatever makes you passionate or pissed, take some action. Today.
 

The Hunters
It goes something like this…The hunter is fumbling with the dosage of tranquilizer he is trying to load into a dart, but need to be cautious.
Tranquilizer is expensive, but soon he will have plenty of money, and better too much of the drug than too little.
Waking up is not part of the plan, so there is no such thing as an overdose…or if there is such a thing, it’s just not a worry of yours.
More toublesome is getting this loaded and into the high powered rifle, in the dark with only your headlamp..
and the helicopter banking, throwing you off balance. It is a short helicopter ride–to where the animals were seen grazing this afternoon, just a few trees around and lots of shrub, but it is July, high winter, so most of the the grass has died and there are wide open plains abound
Besides, the elephants have taken down so many of the tall trees it makes tracking much easier

The spotters take only a few seconds more to find her now, almost exactly where she was. Her calf is only a couple of yards away from her side, and both are spooked now from the rotor blades in your 'copter.
They try to run a bit, but of course their lumbering gate is like slow motion, and the baby can only go a few steps at a time.
He takes aim, and it is like shooting fish in a barrel. The dart lands clean in her side, just below the shoulder
it’s a good shot, so the pilot pulls back a bit and finds a spot to land a few hundred feet away.
By the time the copter is down, so is the rhino. It takes less than seven minutes for her to fall into unconsciousness.
It is not graceful. She stumbles against the lethal dose of drugs  pumped into her, struggling to try and protect her calf...
She is a beauty.

The Buyer
The horn will fetch a great price sold to those who supply the demand for Chinese medicine–rhinoceros horn is in incredible demand for impotent men. You thought Viagra was going to gut the market, but no, rhino horn still pays handsomely.

The last female white rhino in a South African park was slaughtered by poachers last week, for her horn. Her horn was cut from her face by a chainsaw and she was left to bleed to death.
Her orphaned baby was found the next day and transferred to a nearby estate where it joined two other orphaned rhino calves.
It is only mid-July and more than 200 endangered rhinos have been killed this year by poachers
They were killed for their horns
Horns that Chinese men (and other consumers of Chinese medicine) think will help them with a lack of virility.

This last rhino cow was nine years old and a new mother.



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Golf Is In the Mind

Golf Is In The Mind


Are you tired of having the highest score when you play with friends?

How would you like to have the lowest one?

In your group?

In your club?

How would you like to lower your golf score by at least 5 strokes (but most likely more) in less than 30 minutes... without practicing?

Do you know how it feels if you can't drop your score anymore? Very frustrating...

I was in the same state one year ago. I took dozens of lessons, changed my pros, started building up a new swing from scratch, hit hundreds and hundreds of balls on the range, bought new clubs... and the result? My score did not drop at all!

Everything worked well on the range - hitting the balls long and straight. But back on the golf course I struggled again, slicing, hooking and hitting fat shots resulted in balloon scores and destroyed my score regularly. Does this sound familiar to you?

But it came even worse. With the missing self- confidence my short game began to struggle as well. There were rounds where I had over 40 putts. How embarrassing...

I was very close giving up my beloved game of golf until I discovered the secret mental technique that changed everything! Read on to see what it is about...

There's an amazing new mental golf audio training called "Amazing Golf Mind". It covers the secret mental golf training technique that Tiger and the top tour players used to become the successful players they are. It's the first time that this powerful mental golf method is available to the regular golfer. You can use the same simple, but little-known mental technique to improve your golf game... in less than 30 minutes from now!

Imagine having a consistent and repeatable golf swing. Would that be nice? Being confident in hitting long and straight drives every time, chipping close to the pin and sinking more three foot putts without fear and anxiety. And can you imagine how great you'll feel if you were dropping your score quickly and win tournaments?

Just A Week From Now You Can Play Your
 Best Golf Of Your Life Without Practice

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Did you hear that? Playing your best golf without practice! Most golfers spend hours on the range hitting hundreds of balls and do still not improve... They do not realize that golf is 90% mental...

And imagine being able to correct swing faults without taking golf lessons? You can definitely do that. Imagine being in full control over your golf swing, short game, putting and play almost every round "in the zone". Not bad just for listening three times a week to 20 minutes of relaxing music.

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Is This The Most Difficult Par 3 In Golf?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/03/golf-holersquos-tee-box-is-1400-feet-above-the-green/

The Legend Golf and Safari Resort in South Africa features a world-class golf course with each of the 18 holes designed by a different professional golfer. The true magic is found in the “Extreme 19th” hole, though, which is a 630-yard par three with a tee box that’s only accessible by helicopter and looms over 1,400 feet above the green.
Set high up on the impressive Hanglip Mountain and accessible only by helicopter, this par 3 hole is played from a vertical height of 430 metres. After a short, breathtaking helicopter flight, golfers have the opportunity of teeing off from one of three tee boxes, high up on the escarpment. With advanced technology in the form of four separate cameras and the latest tracking equipment, the golfer can follow and capture the tee shot and the flight of the ball.

 Your ball will actually stay in the air for about 30 seconds, and that’s assuming you can manage to land it anywhere close to the green. Check out the above video to watch Padraig Harrington make par, one of the few golfers to ever do so.30 seconds is a long long time for a ball to stay in the air.Average time for a good drive must be less than 10 seconds.How often do we lose interest after 1 second/
I think it's time to strengthen the mind http://www.amazinggolfmind.com/?hop=krispee says an average golfer who is battling the yips


The resort offers a one million dollar prize for anyone who makes a hole in one (better start practicing). The 19th hole can be played on its own for a separate fee or you can play a full round plus the Extreme 19th for about $220 US – not bad at all considering the experience.
Tee-box-is-1400-feet-above-the-green_Golf in South Africa