Now We Have Eight Planets

We will all have to learn how to keep pace with advances not only in discoveries but in the progress of astronomical science and its adopted terminology.Current official recognition accepts that in our Solar System it applies to 8 planets and to 3 of dwarf planet status.

Animals in Human Care

Whether we are considering the intensive farming methods in food factories designed to produce poultry, cattle, pigs or any other animals for human consumption, we will find the need for correction of the established methods, methods with sole purpose for increase, regardless of quality and forgetful of the human aspiration and necessity to be humane.

Our Old, Old Solar System

Although there are varying opinions about the Sun’s birthday, with figures sometimes given as 4.5 and 4.6 we must give it our respect and conclude that we live in a very, very old Solar System.

Earthquakes – Prove Fatal for Some

The Aquarian Age was heralded with an abundance of hope for a gloriously and improved world. It also came with warning that violent changes would accompany its early period – bringing increased earthquakes and natural disasters as well as numerous social upheavals.

From this time, the last decades show increasingly intense global upheavals but seem gradual enough for us to overlook the fact that predictions are coming to pass in both spheres, social as well as geological.

Matters of Extinction – Ocean Life

Scientists’ serious attention to this problem of decreasing sea life, upon which so much depends, is indicating complexity both in the causes and possible correction of phytoplankton decline. It would seem to involve not only temperature and sea currents but the affect of ice melts at the Poles, particularly in the Antarctic.

Matters of Extinction – Trees

It is not only the reduction of trees through the denuding of our natural forests that provide the basis of our atmospheric balance through employment of carbon increasing destructive technique of burning but the reduction of species that is causing us now great concern.