The Invasion of Waste — 6

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

The future does not hurt… for the moment.

As His Holiness the Dalai Lama has repeatedly stressed, interdependence is a key concept in Buddhism that leads to a profound under¬standing of

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The Invasion of Waste – 5

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

Blind Selfishness

Imagine a damaged ship in which it would be necessary to use all the power of the engines to pump the water out from its holds. Where first class

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The Invasion of Waste -4

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

The high price of materialistic values

An American psychologist Tim Kasser and his colleagues at the University of Rochester have shown, through studies spanning two decades and within a representative sample

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The Invasion of Waste -3

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

As Didier Ruef wrote, ‟While the re-use and recovery of waste is part of everyday life in developing countries, our consumer society has turned waste into garbage, by taking away its

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The invasion of garbage – 2

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

Recently, I had the opportunity to swim in the middle of around thirty whale-sharks off the Mexican coast. But amidst the sun’s rays that lit up the shimmering ocean and the

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The Invasion of Waste -1

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s « Recycle » de Didier Ruef)

From prehistoric tools to the flooding of waste…



Some animals have learned to use and even shape rudimentary tools. Homo habilis generalized tool making and Homo

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Flying over the Himalayas

imageIn flight from Bhutan to Delhi, on October 14th, the Everest (8848m) in the middle and the Makalu (8463 m) on the right

imageThe Annapurna range

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Magic moments-5

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Tibetan and Bhutanese monks from Shechen Monastery in Nepal enjoy the snow on a summit overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland during a European tour of sacred dances. /MR 474

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