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The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

Wilson over a decade ago: The worst thing that can happen during the 1980s is not energy depletion, economic collapses, limited nuclear war, or conquest by a totalitarian government. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us for. Yet still the destruction continues.

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RADIATION EXPOSURE In today's environment, we worry not so much about nuclear war and fallout from atomic testing, but about radioactive pollution from nuclear reactors, plutonium disposal, and uranium mining. Cellular telephones, x-rays, nuclear medicine, computer monitors, television sets, smoke detectors, and microwave ovens are among the common items that are sources of radiation exposure. Radiation is around us all the time in both natural and artificially introduced forms.

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Unlike other seed banks, which share their contents with farmers today, the doomsday vault is meant to protect the world's food supply in the future from catastrophes like nuclear war, asteroid strike, or environmental disaster caused by accelerated global warming. Call it civilization's insurance policy. 5R Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov MM— The world owes a debt of gratitude to Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Well ahead of his time, Vavilov recognized as early as the 1920s the critical role that protecting agricultural biodiversity could play in human survival.

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Whether it was day or night, blizzard or heat wave, tornado or hurricane, nuclear war or chemical attack, there was a comforting feeling being within the womb of Gaia. I have often thought that at the rate we're going, we may all have to live underground. Roger Billings' Hydrogen Hobbit Hollow may be another prototype of what's to come. As in the case of Randell Mills, Billings has more potential to succeed than others because he has both money and expertise. He founded WideBand, a successful one billion bit computer networking concept he had invented.

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It was one of the first times that abstract theorizing about limited nuclear war was related to the defense doctrine that later became known as flexible response," wrote Isaacson.31 When Nitze—Kissinger's cohort on the topic of "limited nuclear war"—argued that threatened massive nuclear retaliation might be considered a "bluff," Bundy replied, "Can we not develop a concept for the graduated application of power? It is essential that we find some flexible policy.

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But when the USSR made a detailed proposal to remove the threat of nuclear war, most Americans never heard about it. Such a proposal was made on October 5, 1983, by Andrei Gromyko, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs, in two letters to Javier Perez de Cuel-lar, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Along with the letters were draft resolutions for freezing nuclear weapons and condemning nuclear war.

The draft resolution condemning nuclear war echoed the sentiments of millions of Americans increasingly concerned about nuclear war who supported a nuclear freeze. SOURCE: Soviet Life Magazine, December 1983. UPDATE: Please also see update of "The U.S. Against the World on Nuclear Issues," #7, 1982. 4. America's Agricultural Disaster of 1983— A PIK in a Poke 1983 SYNOPSIS: In early 1983, President Ronald Reagan introduced a new federal program called Payment In Kind, or PIK.

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This film enabled millions of people to see that a nuclear war would not simply be a more powerful kind of war than had existed previously, but an entirely new situation in which the survivors would literally envy the dead. Immensely motivating, the documentary activated large segments of society to take action to prevent nuclear war from ever occurring. Meanwhile, Physicians for Social Responsibility was continuing to document the devastating health and environmental risks of open-air nuclear testing.

Over the years thereafter, the organization emphasized that if nuclear war were to be prevented, physicians would have to play a crucial role. Year after year, in city after city, they educated and mobilized the medical community. It was after one of the organization's conferences on the medical consequences of nuclear war that the videographers and social activists Ian and Eric Thiermann created the monumental documentary film The Last Epidemic.

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What if care of the sick interferes with the "preventive approach to the problems of mankind, including the social ills of malnutrition and poverty" (see Weinstein's oath) or with efforts to prevent nuclear war (see the Soviet Oath)? Before 1989, certain groups of physicians actively fought against improvements in the treatment of disaster victims because they thought preparedness might somehow increase the risk of nuclear war. Only the Hippocratic physician promises to do no harm. Is that an oversight by the others?

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Immensely motivating, the documentary activated large segments of society to take action to prevent nuclear war from ever occurring. Meanwhile, Physicians for Social Responsibility was continuing to document the devastating health and environmental risks of open-air nuclear testing. By exposing the increasing presence of strontium-90 in children's teeth, a by-product of nuclear testing, the organization helped stop U.S. atmospheric testing and achieve a Limited Test Ban Treaty.

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Despite these conflicts, the shared fear of nuclear war led the United States and Soviet Union to seek compromise and mutual understanding, called detente, during the 1970s and 1980s. 210 fa The expression vandalism for wanton destruc-tiveness comes from the name of the Vandals. vassal Under feudalism, a subordinate who placed himself in service to a lord in return for the lord's protection. vestal virgins Women in ancient Rome who took vows of chastity and tended the sacred flame in the temple of the goddess Vesta. Their group numbered six at any one time.

Johnson supporters in the election often suggested that Goldwatet's opposition to communism could lead him to involve the United States in nuclear war. fa Goldwater's campaign marked a realignment of political loyalties in the South. He gained majorities in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, which had all had a long and powerful tradition of voting Democratic. Gompers, Samuel (gom-puhrz) Labor leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he co-founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), an organization composed of skilled workers in craft unions.

It was first advanced around i960 by the premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, who called on both sides to avoid nuclear war. Khrushchev maintained that the communists would ultimately prevail, but by economic and political strength, not by war. People's Republic of China The government of China set up in 1949 after the victory of the communist forces of Mao Zedong. The People's Republic ruled the mainland of China, forcing the government of Nationalist China into exile on the island of Taiwan.

The balance of power between nations that are equipped with nuclear weapons, stemming from their fear of annihilation in a nuclear war. balkanization (bawl-kuh-nuh-zay-shuhn) Division of a place or country into several small political units, often unfriendly to one another. The term balkanization comes from the name of the Balkan Peninsula, which was divided into several small nations in the early twentieth century. vll ¦HI Civil disobedience. Antinuclear activists staging a sit-in at the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant.

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In fact, he repeatedly repudiated the entire militaristic ideology behind the "war" on cancer, much as, in his work for world peace, he continually rejected the concept of a "winnable nuclear war." He consistently said that vitamin C was not a cytotoxic weapon, but an agent of healing that could restrain cancer cells, stimulate the immune system, and improve the general health and well-being of people with cancer. And he continually said that vitamin C had to be taken daily on an ongoing basis to achieve the desired results.

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But in a nuclear war, there are no white uniforms and no battlefields. The patriarchal codes of honor have become outdated. To conclude my illustrations of the parallels between concepts of health and concepts of peace within the old paradigm, I should mention that in both areas the mechanistic views are perpetuated not only by scientists, politicians, and generals, but also—and perhaps even more forcefully—by the pharmaceutical and military industries, which have invested heavily in the old paradigm.

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The organization that has been leading the effort to educate the public about the medical consequences of nuclear war and environmental deterioration. Alternative Approaches to Cancer: Organizations Center for Advancement in Cancer Education; P.O. Box 48, Wynnewood, PA 19096-0048; 610-642-4810. People Against Cancer; P.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50569; 515-972-4444. Alternative Approaches to Cancer: Services for Patients Patrick McGrady's CanHelp; 206-437-2291. Ralph Moss's Healing Choices; contact Melissa Wolf: 718-636-4433.

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Holistic Health-Holistic Peace Fritjof Capra The Paradigm Shift THE THREAT of nuclear war is the most dramatic symptom of a multifaceted, global crisis that touches every aspect of our lives: _I our health and livelihood, the quality of our environment and our social relationships, our economy, technology, our politics—our very survival on this planet. Conventional politicians no longer know where to turn to minimize the damage.

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Whichever way it may go, WorldWatch Institute, in one of its publications, State of the World 1989, warns that the threat of severe climate change "can be compared with nuclear war for its potential to disrupt a wide range of human and natural systems . . ." This can include major shifts in weather patterns and agricultural zones, severe droughts, and rising sea levels that could drastically flood coastal areas. Like smog and acid rain, our climate-change problems are mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and the destruction of our forests and plant life.

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And that is nuclear war. Maybe it is time that we concerned parents move on to tackle what may really ruin our children's lives: an uninhabitable planet. Sue Brown, MD Albuquerque, New Mexico Fall 1980 Dear Mothering, I have a 22-month-old son who will soon be due for his two-year-old checkup. I am advised by my pediatrician that at this checkup my son will have to take a new vaccine called Hemophilus influenza type b, or Hib vaccine, to prevent a common cause of bacterial meningitis in children from two to five years old.

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The National Seed Storage Laboratory, located in Fort Collins, Colorado, is charged with the preservation of germplasm as a safeguard against national disaster, such as nuclear war. In the early 1960s, ten bags of hemp seed, the only known remnant of the Kentucky hemp varieties, were transferred there from the USDA. A USDA Yearbook report noted that "Flax and hemp are no longer produced for fiber in this country, but seed stocks of the best varieties that have been developed by research agencies are maintained."164 Fortunately for flax, a responsible effort was made to preserve its germplasm.

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The willingness to engage in nuclear war when necessary is part of the price of our freedom," Kissinger argued. I suddenly realized that the anxiety I felt in grade school while drilling for possible nuclear attacks was part of Kissinger's price for freedom. Eisenhower had warned America that the gravest threat to world security, democracy, and even spirituality, was the growing military-industrial complex, I recalled. And the Rockefellers and Kissinger played leading roles in its expansion.

When Nitze—Kissinger's cohort on the topic of "limited nuclear war"—argued that threatened massive nuclear retaliation might be considered a "bluff," Bundy replied, "Can we not develop a concept for the graduated application of power? It is essential that we find some flexible policy." Six years later, as national security advisor during the Kennedy administration, Bundy helped activate this "flexible response" doctrine.31 "Kissinger, with some discomfort" had by then accepted the view that "for the foreseeable future, the U.S.

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This environmental crisis—global warming with its attendant complex effects in nature—has demonstrated that global security is threatened by environmental pollution and degradation as much as by the prospect of "nuclear winter" after nuclear war. Every country must be involved in the effort to slow global warming because every country, by reason of agriculture and climate, will be affected by it. But it is the industrialized countries that are most responsible for the problem. Before the recent massive burning of tropical forests, the forests of the north were destroyed.

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International Physicians for the Prevention of nuclear war (a network of 200,000 physicians in 80 countries), Physicians for Social Responsibility shared in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. TIME FOR A CHANGE Although it is still true that no other group in health care can come close to matching the AMA in terms of its economic clout, or in terms of its influence over policy makers, increasing numbers of U.S. doctors are speaking out against the AMA's self-serving performance. They know that with power comes responsibility.

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An all-out nuclear war would have been a consequence of the same magnitude. But happily, we stepped back from that brink. Unhappily, we're not stepping back from this one."18 What would it take to step back? We'd have to dramatically reduce our burning of fossil fuels, and convert to sustainable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydrogen. To avoid devastating consequences, it is imperative that we dramatically reduce the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases that we are emitting into the atmosphere.

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The balance of power between nations that are equipped with nuclear weapons, stemming from their fear of annihilation in a nuclear war. balkanization Division of a place or country into several small political units, often unfriendly to one another. The term balkanization comes from the name of the Balkan Peninsula, which was divided into several small nations in the early twentieth century. ballistic missile (See intercontinental ballistic missile and intermediate-range ballistic missile.

Johnson supporters in the election often suggested that Goldwater's opposition to communism could lead him to involve the United States in nuclear war. fa Goldwater's campaign marked a realignment of political loyalties in the South. He gained majorities in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, which had all had a long and powerful tradition of voting Democratic Good Neighbor Policy A policy of friendly tteat-ment of Latin America by the United States, and avoidance of intervention in its affairs. The Good Neighbor Policy originated early in the presidency of Franklin D.

Despite these conflicts, the shared fear of nuclear war has led the United States and Soviet Union to seek compromise and mutual understanding, called detente, during the 1970s and 1980s. -J.F.K. 204 Spanish Armada. Capture of the flagship of Don Miguel de Oquendo. Albert, Prince A German prince of the nineteenth century who married Queen Victoria of Britain and became enormously popular in his new country. He died in his early forties, and Queen Victoria remained in mourning for him until her death.

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