Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

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Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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kemb-

PIE base ‘to bend, turn’. See also trep- ‘to turn’, root of Greek trepo ‘to turn’, which gives holotropic, changing the Whole towards Wholeness.

Other derivatives include exchange, interchange; canteen, decant; hump; and Cambridge.

[Pokorny, (s)kamb-, and (s)kemb- ‘to bend, curve, hump’, p. 918, related to *kamb- ‘to bend, curve’, p. 525, root of gambol, via Greek.]

change

In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr famously coined the aphorism Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, usually translated as ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’. Yes, indeed!

climate change

The purpose of this page is to put the climate changes and extremes we have been experiencing during the past few decades into a much broader time perspective than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) normally presents the climate changes that are likely to happen during the lifetimes of the younger generations.