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This file is a 1999 set of email records from a federal records system, possibly released through FOIA. Most of the emails are broadcast messages from Joseph P. Firmage promoting his online book The Truth and the International Space Sciences Organization, which he founded to study propulsion, energy and consciousness. One message, from Ed Yardeni, concerns a World Economic Forum Y2K panel at Davos and notes that Firmage was originally on the panel. None of the emails describe a specific UFO sighting.
ARMS Email System Page 3 of7 intelligent people. As we face deep questions early in the 21st Century regarding the ecological catastrophes that we must somehow avoid, we should ask ourselves the question: to the degree that ideotechnomics forms the substrate of our lives, what are ways that it can reduce happiness and freedom of action for us and our descendants, instead of expanding these truest qualities of life? 'As we witness the growing reach of wires and waves coursing with energy around us, we must never lose our sense of the total and unforgettable experience of being lovingly rooted in Nature. Remember Y2K as you read When Things Start to' Think, .by Neil A. Gershenfeld. The Sixth Extinction? Some news items are more important than others, but are often drowned because 'equal air time' seems increa~ingly to favor profitability rather than relevance as the unit of measure. One such story appeared on MSNBC.com on August 4th. "We are predicting the extinction of about two'-thirds of all bird, mammal, butterfly and plant species by the end of the next century, based on current trends," said Peter Raven, President of the International Botanical Congress at its annual meeting thi~ summer. "The projected rate of extinction for the next 100 years is equal. to 65 million years ago." 50,000 of the 300,000 species of plant on Earth are at risk of extinction now. 200,000 species could vanish by the end of the 21st century. In the oceans, 50 "dead zones" have been identified in coastal areas, the largest in the Gulf of Mexico caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus flowing from the Mississippi. "We're witnessing many signals of the problems that will result from these changes," reports Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University, "including toxic algal blooms, coral bleaching and sudden disappearance of fish from key fisheries." There are many reactions individuals can have to news reports such as this. Most people click on to the next site or station, thinking something like "the government or environmentalists will find a solution". Many people click into it one level further, learn more, and shift their thinking modestly. Some people are motivated to act, and contribute or volunteer for a role in the movement. And vanishingly few who do are in positions of influence. to accelerate the thinking of many others. It is important this last group of people grows, and I will be greatly surprised if the health of the biosphere is not a principal focus of the next Presidential election. My personal bet is that the self created environmental problems menacing humanity will force their way to the front of everyone's attention soon. New debates will be framed in increasingly clear terms demonstrating the stakes of decisions we mayor may not have the will to make in the next 10 years. How long it takes for these debates to influence everyday actions of several hundred million relatively wealthy human beings will determine whether we
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 30 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.