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Roger J. Wendell
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Rainbow Tribe

When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the Earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the Earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow -- Old Native American Prophecy

The Four Most Important Questions:

1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
2. What is the origin of the Universe?
3. How did life start?
4. Is there other life elsewhere in the Universe?

Purpose:

I know, you've come to this page for a thousand other reasons than the fate of Earth. Maybe you're interested in Morse code or appropriate technology (yes, I have some pages devoted to those, too...), or you love travel and mountaineering (I've done a lot of that, as well), or you're Googling me because I've made a business proposal, applied for a position/contract at your company, or you've read one of my articles, or heard me on the radio.

Whatever the reason I'm really glad you're here - even if you don't agree with me politically, philosophically, or even spiritually - it's important that we be able to communicate and have a free flow of information without threat of intimidation or worse (and, yes, I've received "worse" - up to and including death threats for the simple ideas and suggestions I've authored in various publications or on the Internet).

So, even though this site has well over 200 pages (and that's not counting the hundreds of pages I've authored on other sites!), covering all kinds of topics (including sciences like Biology, Evolution, and Cosmology that I love so much...), I want to make it clear that my lifelong passion has been the protection and preservation of our precious little planet and the wonderful array and diversity of life that it harbours. Yes, my family, friends, country, job, and other aspects of regular life are extremely important to me, but the planet, ultimately, deserves our greatest care and consideration.

In the secular long run, for that huge stretch of time that will continue after our deaths, there is nothing more important than this planet and the other creatures that inhabit it with us. Face it, no matter our technological prowess or spiritual certainty, this planet is all we know - there's no religious consensus on an alternative existence or afterlife, and science has confirmed that human-beings will never leave the solar system, ever.* Each of us has been born on this planet, and with the exception of a few astronauts, each of us will perish here. There is nothing else - this is our home.

My concern is not just with the destruction brought about by consumptive North Americans and Europeans, but by most of humankind all over the planet as well. I've traveled all the continents and can assure you that neither the Americans nor Europeans have "cornered the market" on habitat destruction and abuse - from China and India, to Antarctica and Japan, human impact on the natural world has been devastating - entire species and bioregions have been decimated by our greed, arrogance, and indifference.

Hopefully my little website, or occasional magazine articles and radio programs, can raise awareness, save some habitat, or rescue a species on the brink of extinction. I know - you may have come here to read one of my rants against the airlines or the concentration of wealth throughout society - that's fine. Just remember that my goal is to save some of the natural world - other creatures and systems have an intrinsic value of their own, and a right to be here regardless their "utility" or economic worth to humans. And, it doesn't matter our political system, religious views, or economic philosophy, we have no right to halt, slow, or degrade the biological rhythms and relationships that started a few thousand million years before our own appearance just a couple geologic seconds ago. We have no right to wantonly destroy the beautiful, mysterious array of life that also calls this place home. We do not have that right.

*Voyager 1 reached the heliopause at about the time of my posting - but there were no humans onboard...

Links to some (but not all!) of my other pages:

Some important history:

27 Year-old Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed during the Tehran protests of June '09 23 Year-old American Rachel Corrie crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer USS Liberty attacked by Israel in 1967. Tiananmen Square Masacre, June 1989, China.

Some fun stuff:

Quarter Change Stuff I change every quarter! (My apologies to nonnative speakers as this little phrase is yet another example of the subtle ambiguities that vex the English language...)

Quote Quiz:

Which famous person said this? "A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the 'The Wall!'" (Click Here for the answer)

Quote of the Quarter:

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston Churchill, Perth, Scotland, May 1948

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Did You Know?

The Sun's output is 3.8 x 1033 ergs/second, or about 5 x 1023 horsepower. That is enough energy to melt a bridge of ice 2 miles wide, 1 mile thick, and extending the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, in one second. source: Dr. Louis Barbier, NASA's COSMICOPIA webpage

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