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| [GMW #895] Enough - OverConstruction, OverUrbanization, OverConsumption, OverTransportation, OverActivity
| Friday 3 March 2006, Editor: Easy | RobertMuller.org | Contact | Subscribe | Unsubscribe |
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We must absolutely add overconstruction and overurbanization to the destructive trends of our present society against the Earth, namely overpopulation, overconsumption, overtransportation, overactivity, etc.
Yes, how many new buildings, hotels and houses are being constructed often at sizes which are not necessary, require huge energy consumption, water consumption, maintenance, and lead progressively to the destruction of the Earth? For example the annual rate of new housing in the US alone was 1,613,000 in 1998. In 100 years this would mean 161,300,000 and by the year 3000 1 billion 613 million new houses. Can the Earth bear this?
More generally how many new activities and products are invented every day by the western society making people confused and doubtful about the real, deepest, spiritual meaning of life?
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| | Robert's Golden Sayings | Power devours everything: universal religions are eaten up by it; multinational business falls prey to it; democracy is trampled by it. I begged in vain the Club or Rome to tackle the Limits of Power, after the Limits of Growth.
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-A Contribution to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, 1995, Chapter 9 | "A new spiritual pyramid must be erected on the high intellectual platform that has already been built by the United Nations."
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| Celebrating Roberts 83rd Birthday
Saturday March 11, 2006
1. Send Robert birthday best wishes along with your ideas & dreams for a better world to Good Morning World - Click here to send an email or simply reply to this email. All these greetings will be compiled in order received and sent out to Robert in a special edition of Good Morning World on Robert's birthday.- 7 Birthday best wishes received so far.2. Sign up and send Robert a question - your most important question - for the birthday teleconfernce interview and listen by phone live or later on the web. See the following invitation from Robert's biographer Douglas Gillies - Hear Robert Muller LIVE on his Birthday below. 3. Send Good Morning World the question(s) you would like Robert to talk about for his birthday and they will be shared with Good Morning World so others can better form their question(s) for Robert. Make sure to also send this question(s) at the link for Hear Robert Muller Live so you can participate in the phone call and or listen to it on the internet. - Also, a special printing of Robert's Golden Sayings - Large Print - is being made for Happiness is a Decision, March 19th, see below. To purchase Robert's Golden Sayings - Large Print - click here to send an email request or simply reply to this email. Single copies $10, two or more copies $6 each - postage included, add $3 for priority mail.
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as we celebrate his 83rd birthday?" |  | | Robert Muller | Hear Robert Muller LIVE on his Birthday | Douglas Gillies | R obert Muller is celebrating his birthday on March 11, 2006, and you're invited to join Robert live on the telephone! When I wrote Robert Muller's biography, Prophet--the Hatmaker's Son, I wanted to show readers how Robert came to think like a global citizen. Over a period of three years, I interviewed him 42 times. This year, on his 83rd birthday, I will interview Robert once again, but this time I will be asking YOUR questions. Here's how it works. You go to http://www.robertmullerpeacemaker.com and ask your most important question about Robert's life. In a few days, I'll send you an email with the phone number and access code. This is a free call. The only cost will be your regular long distance charges. On March 11 at 9:00 a.m. PST Robert will answer YOUR questions about his life. If you prefer to send a birthday greeting instead of a question, that's fine. I will ask as many questions and read as many greetings as time permits. If we don't get through them all, I will present the rest of the questions and comments to Robert on a birthday card. Maybe we'll even do this again sometime. It gets better. I'm going to professionally record the call. Anyone who signs up will get a chance to listen to the audio on their computer or their iPod whenever they want (so it's not a problem if you miss the call). If there's enough interest, a PDF transcript will be made. Many people receiving this email have already read Prophet the Hatmaker's Son. If you don't have a copy, or if you would like to give it to someone on Robert's birthday, you can now buy Prophet wholesale for only $14.95. That's what the bookstores pay, and I'll go one better and pay for the postage to ship it by Priority Mail anywhere in the U.S. Read about how Robert Muller fought in the French Resistance during World War II and then dedicated his life to peace at the United Nations. This is going to be fun! I hope you can join us. To sign up, go to: http://www.robertmullerpeacemaker.com
All the best, Douglas Gillies East Beach Press
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Learn how DECIDING to be happy even in the most difficult situations contributes to the health and well-being of ourselves, each other and the entire planet.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
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