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PERSPECTIVAS - A poluição plástica - HojeMacau - 20.06.2019

“Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight. Plastic pollution is the environmental scourge of our age.”

How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Will McCallum

Os nossos belos oceanos estão a ser transformados em uma sopa de plástico, pois cerca de oito milhões de toneladas de plástico entram no mar todos os anos e, a continuar a este ritmo, enfrentamos um futuro com mais plástico nos oceanos do que peixes até 2050. O nosso vício pelo plástico e má gestão de resíduos está a condenar incontável número de espécies de ​​aves e animais marinhos à morte por emaranhamento ou envenenamento e levando à contaminação química dos peixes que comemos.  

Sometimes things seem like good ideas and aren’t, really. - Piglet

Ask for guidance first.

Self-will is a tricky thing. So are impulse behaviors.

We’ve heard of impulse buying-making purchases quickly and without thought, based on momentary impulse.

It’s easy to get caught up living our lives that way, too.

So often, we run off in the heat of the moment.

Spontaneity is good.

Saying yes to life is good, too. But impulse living can get us into trouble.

We can overreact to a problem, and then sit in a heap of regrets.

Sometimes, the next step presents itself clearly, in a flash of inspiration.

Sometimes, we’re meant to go forward and not let our fears and negative thoughts hold us back.

Sometimes, we’re acting on impulse and may end up sabotaging ourselves.

Ask for guidance first.

It takes only a second to check the map and see if the turn we’re thinking of making is where we really want to go.

PERSPECTIVAS - O Brexit e a China - HojeMacau - 13.06.2019

“China is ready to take advantage of a divided Europe and weakened UK after Brexit.”

China and Brexit: what’s in it for us?

François Godement & Angela Stanzel

O polémico político, académico, escritor e poeta britânico, John Enoch Powell, que foi deputado pelo Partido Conservador do Reino Unido de 1950 a 1974, do Partido Unionista do Ulster de 1974 a 1987, e ministro da Saúde do Reino Unido de 1960 a 1963, afirmou que todas as carreiras políticas na Grã-Bretanha terminam em lágrimas. A primeira-ministra demissionária Theresa May, não falhou à regra e as suas palavras mostraram essa verdade não apenas figurativamente, mas literalmente. A primeira-ministra demissionária anunciou em 24 de Maio de 2019 que deixaria o cargo a 7 de Junho de 2019, e viu-se o seu rosto consumido de emoção e lágrimas nos seus olhos. Foi um balde de água fria para terminar um período caótico e, para muitos, inglório.

The Sufis have a saying: Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post. This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world. - Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

 It’s easy to play the martyr.

We spend our lives in struggle and turmoil longing for the sweet by-and-by when everything will be fine.

Today is the sweet by-and-by.

Yes, right now.

It’s here.

If we’re to have good in our lives, it’s up to us to seek it out.

Here are two things the Bible teaches about faith: One, it says that faith is like a mustard seed.

The tiniest bit of it can grow tall and in its own time will sprout.

The other thing the Bible says is that faith without works is dead.

If you’re not doing something, then you’re not keeping your faith alive.

Pray.

Turn it over to God. But do something, too.

Stop waiting for someone to come along and rescue you.

Learn to rescue yourself.