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We didn't need certainly to drive very much and arrived at an Episcopelian Church where several people wer...

I got up early and had a good breakfast in the inner courtyard of Manhunter Nuestra today. Briefly before 9 am Andie and I left on her behalf monthly meeting of the Newcomers Club, a small grouping of about 170 largely English-speaking expatriates from all different countries who've settled in Cuernavaca. Andie Grater has been the president of this volunteer organization going back 4 years.

We didn't need certainly to travel very far and attained an Episcopelian Church where several individuals were already setting up chairs and coffee for the regular reunion. Two staff members from the American Consulate in Mexico City were creating a dining table with information about tax, voting and other issues relating specifically to US Citizens surviving in Mexico. The Newcomers Club frequently encourages speakers or authorities on matters related directly to the expatriate community.

I had to be able to speak with a few of the team members. There was a lady roughly in his late 50s who'd emigrated from Israel 3 years ago and was now in real estate and providing catering services for Middle Eastern foods. I also talked with a young lady in his 30s who had emigrated from Poland and now had a wood-working business with his partner, making specific wood toys which they sell throughout natural food shops in Mexico. Then I linked to a lady who was initially from Germany, and her husband and she have already been working for quite a while for a charity helping blind people throughout the world. She's lived around Latin America along with Pakistan.

Cuernavaca's Newcomers Club is definitely a very interesting and diverse group of people. Although I saw several younger people, all the people I saw were within their 50s, 60s and up. Almost all are retirees who've settled in Cuernavaca completely.

The group settled in, after the liquids were taken and Andie, as the President, made a variety of ads. A girl by the name of Ana Gonzalez, discussed the specific project work by an NGO called Caminamos Juntos para manhattan project Salud y el Desarollo ("Walking Together for Health and Development"). The project was founded by Susan Smith, a very poor Mexican village have been adopted by a Canadian woman, who. Among the greatest issues of this community is that its water has been contaminated with arsenic, so drinking water is really a real problem. The people with this town are very poor, and on a monthly basis Susan requires the Newcomers Club to contribute different products, from pots and pans, to blankets, games, school materials and much more.

Then after a few more announcements, Bob Vockerath, a distinguished looking gentleman in his late seventies, initially from Vancouver, Canada, got up give a special demonstration. He talked about several books he had read (Plan B and Limits to Growth) which talk about human impact on our planet and the durability of our human activities.

He talked about populace growth, sources, professional productivity, pollution and so on. and showed several maps of projections of where our future will take us. Limits to Growth was initially published in 1972 and many experts modeled the growth of these essential factors and expected them well in to the 3rd millennium. From as assets get depleted about 2050 onwards their models predict a plain drop in population, pollution assumes on an increasingly destructive level, and industrial output multiplies.

He mentioned some fascinating statistics: between 1950 and 2000 the global populace increased from about 2.5 billion to 6.1 billion. Average profits tripled and therefore did the demand for grain. Economic productivity increased 6.6 situations from $7 trillion annually to $46 trillion. The demand for grain is interesting because 1 ton of meat, for example, requires 10 tons of grain to produce, an extremely resource-intensive form of food production.

Joe Vockerath also went right into a short description of the book Plan B and that its author expounds on 6 fundamental social goals:

1. Fundamental universal - primary education

2. Adult literacy programs

3. Family planning

4. School dinners

5. Assisting pre-schoolers

6. Widespread basic medical care

Furthermore these social objectives are supplemented by earth repair goals:

1. Reforestation

2. Protection topsoil on croplands

3. Fixing rangelands

4. Rebuilding fisheries

5. Protecting biodiversity

6. Stabilizing the water table.

Social goals and world restoration together are forecast to cost yet another $191 million each year over and above what's being spent already.

This contrasts to annual military spending of $975 billion, apparently in the US alone each year $475 billion are allocated to security. So if we just reallocated our spending we'd be in a situation to effect tremendous environmental and social change for the better.

The group in the space was asked several questions and listening attentively. I was really impressed by this conference because so many people in the market were in their 60 entirely into their late 80s or beyond and they showed such a strong curiosity about this matter even though the potential implications of the problems may have a much more resilient affect on the grand and great-grand children.

As some body with an curiosity about ecological issues, I found this demonstration very informative and concluded that the immigrant group in Cuernavaca is engaged in certain quite interesting things... empilhadeiras