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How to look back at Cop26

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Marcus Ampe

Negotiations at a repetitious summit looking for long-term solutions After a fortnight of negotiations which began with 120 world leaders attending the UN Glasgow summit, several richer countries did show once more that economic gain is more important for them … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crisis, Economy, Environment and Ecology, History, News and Politics, Warning, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged Ageing, Alok Sharma, António Guterres, Anthropogenic degradation, Archaeology, Australia, Boris Johnson, Brazil, China, Climate Crisis, Climatic shift(s), Consumer, Consumerism, Contraception, COP26, CoViD-19, Cutting methane emission, Disease(s), Eco-balance, Ecological Footprint, Economic gain, Elderly, Electric car(s), Environmental history, Environmental Impact, Glasgow, Global Warming, Human Development, Human disease, Human overpopulation, Humanity, Jennifer Morgan, Mexico, Paleoclimatology (science), Population, Saving the planet, Simonetta Sommaruga, War, Weather condition(s), Wind power | 8 Comments

Multiculturalism Search for truth and stimulator to find innovation and to create

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Marcus Ampe

A few decades ago mankind had its higher institutions to stimulate people to do research and to create new things. In 1963, the Robbins inquiry into British higher education, which set the framework for the expansion of universities over the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Dagboek = Diary, Education, History, Upbringing and Education | Tagged British higher education, Communal clashes, Consumer, Consumerism, Critical thinkers, Critical thinking, Cultural differences, Cultural divisions, Diversity, Education, Equality, Ethnic divisions, Evaluation, Faith differences, Higher Education, Individual Freedom, Job, Job creation, Kenan Malik, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalists, Pluralism, Political conflicts, Political equals, Racial differences, Respect, Social transformation, Tolerance, University | 4 Comments

Time to consider how to care for our common home

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Marcus Ampe

Man taking ownership We have a wave-function which is the unique, significant form of the coherent organism, a macroscopic quantum object, which has a macroscopic wave-function that is always evolving, always changing as it entangles its environment. We do know … Continue reading →

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Posted in Christendom, Economy, Environment and Ecology, News and Politics, Poverty, Religion, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged 14th Dalai Lama, 21° Century, Adversary, Alternative medicine, Anti-globalization movement, Anti-social Behaviour, Aryan superiority, Asceticism, Asocial Behaviour, Attitude, Behaviour, Believe in the self, Brothers, Canticle of the Creatures, Canticle of the Sun, Capitalism, Centesimus Annus, Challenges, Christian Reformed Church in North America, Christian spirituality, Climate change, Coastal regions, Consumer, Consumerism, Creation, Creature, Divine Creator, Earth, Ecological entity, Ecology, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Emotion, Encyclical, Environment, Environment and Ecology, Environmental issues, Environmental Problems, Environmental Protection, Ethnocentrism, German Advisory Council on Global Change, God-man, Greed, Greedy world, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Helping others, Helping oursleves, Human Freedom, Human responsibility, Human specialness, Humanism, Humanity, Humankind, Humans, Hyperconsumerism, Immanuel Wallerstein, Irresponsible behaviour, Irresponsible people, Justin Welby, Laudato si, Lausanne Movement of global evangelical Christians, Lovers of God, Man, Moral responsibility, Mythology of human specialness, Natural Resources, Nature, Oneness, Perception, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis I, Post-industrial period, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Religious organisations, Responsibilities, Responsibility to Protect, Responsibility to the public, Saint Francis of Assisi, Satan, Self, Self-assertion, Self-indulgence, Selfishness, Sharing, Sisters, System of things, Unity with nature, Way of living, Weakness, World Council of Churches, World system, World Systems Theory | 23 Comments

Green Claims in Europe

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Marcus Ampe

Green Claims The last few years we saw an increasing amount of environmental (or ‘green’) claims and labels appearing on the products in several sorts of shops. As a consumer they looked interesting and could have been a guide to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Economy, Environment and Ecology, Poverty, Welfare and Health | Tagged Animal agribusiness, Bangladesh, Benetton, Bio food, Blue Angel, BMW group, Bonmarché, Burkina Faso, Chocolate, Clothing Industry, Consumer, Consumerism, Daimler, Dhaka, Ecodesign, Ecolabel, Environmentally friendly, Environmentally-friendly products, Ethics, Eu Ecolabel, Eurobarometer report, Eurocommerce, Fair Trade, Fair Trade Certified, Fiat, Ford, Greater Dhaka Area, Green claims, H&M, Human Rights, Joe Fresh, Labelling, Mango, Matalan, Nordic Swan, Orgalime, Purchasing habits, Racism, Slavery, Supply chains, Walmart, West Africa, Zara | 7 Comments

Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #10 Health

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Marcus Ampe

Poverty evolution in Flanders 10. Health In the previous chapters we saw that poverty in our society is a connection of many elements, often at the same time present with poor families, difficulties in the education, bad employment chances, a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Education, Environment and Ecology, Poverty, Welfare and Health | Tagged Accommodation, Belgium, Budget, Building material, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Cash transfer, Community, Consumerism, Consumption, Dignity, Disease, eating disorder, Education, European Union, expenses, Family, financial risks, Flanders, Food, Health, Health care, Ilness, Income, Injustice, Life, Life Expectation, Lifestyle, Living Conditions, Netherlands, Non-communicable disease, nutrition, Old age, Poverty, Prevention, Quality of Life, rent, Social exclusion, Social inclusion, Social injustice, Transport, Unemployment, WHO, work circumstances | 7 Comments

Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #9 Consumption

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Marcus Ampe

Poverty evolution in Flanders 9. Consumption People with higher incomes are likely to consume more goods and services, and to attribute a far higher proportion of their expenditure to ‘non-essentials’ such as holidays, visits to restaurants, or other leisure activities. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environment and Ecology, Poverty, Welfare and Health | Tagged Belgium, Consumer, Consumerism, Consumption, credit, debt, deprivation, Deterioration, disability, durable goods, Earth Charter, Ecological Systems, Ecosystem, Elderly, Environmental Protection, European Union, expenses, Flanders, Flemish people, Gewaarborgd Inkomen, Household expenditure, Housing, impoverishment, Income, Income Guaranty, industry, Labour economics, Leefloon, Living Wage, maintenance allowance, Media, National Bank of Belgium, Old age, payment, Poverty, Poverty risk, precaution, Resources, Saving, self-regulation, Self-Sustaining, Single-parent, Society, Sustainability, Unemployment, Welfare and Health | 14 Comments

Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #7 Education

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Marcus Ampe

Poverty evolution in Flanders 7. Education Education, which can directly provide the skills, knowledge and qualifications that are important in social and labour market participation, in Flanders seems very well taken care off. It starts at age 2.5 when almost … Continue reading →

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Posted in Education, Poverty, Welfare and Health | Tagged Achievement, Action, Assimilation Contract, Behaviour, Belgium, Citizen, Consumer, Consumerism, Consumption, Critical thinking, Culture, Education, Educational Subjects, Educational System, Elio Di Rupo, Environment and Ecology, Ethics, European Union, Flanders, Funding, Future, Human Development, Human Rights, inburgering, Isolation, Labour economics, Learning, Leefloon, Life, Lifestyle, maintenance allowance, maths, naturalization, OCMW, Parent, Parental leave, Perspective, Population Growth, Population Increase, Poverty, Religion, Responsibility, School System, Schooling, Secondary Education, Skill, Social Environment, subsidy, System Schools, Teacher, urban decay, Values, VDAB, Welfare and Health, Western World, work opportunity | 10 Comments

Securing risks

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Marcus Ampe

Geopolitical crises like the Asian meltdown and 9/11 became defined risk in the public consciousness (being ‘staged in the mass media’) and have repopularised scenario planning and threat assessments as pragmatic futures methodologies. International risk management has become a lucrative … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environment and Ecology, News and Politics, Warning, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged Action, Beck, Business, Climate change, Consumerism, Crisis, David Ropeik, Dirk Geldof, Disaster, Ecology, Energy, Environment and Ecology, Europe, European Union, Freedom, Future, God, Growth, Insurance, John Quiggin, Joseph Stiglitz, Life, mentality, mistake, Nuclear energy, Political Reforms, Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk management, Risk Society, Safety, Security, Slavery, Society, Solar Power, UN, United States | 15 Comments

A risk taking society

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Marcus Ampe

In my previous Dutch postings I talked about our society taking certain risks. Not only teenagers get an information overload and seem to be hard-wired to take risks. Today’s teens are “stressed out” but also a lot of adults get … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environment and Ecology, Warning, Welfare and Health | Tagged Climate change, Consumer, Consumerism, Crises, Disaster, Ecology, Egoism, Environment and Ecology, Extreme weather, Family, Freedom, God, Human, Modernisation, Morality, nuclear danger, Nuclear energy, nuclear waste, Risk, Risk Society, Ulrich Beck, United States, Work | 13 Comments

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