Soooo … young women should have to bear and raise babies they don't want, so that The Greatest Generation can retire in comfort. Wow! With moralists like Santorum, what do crass materialists sound like
This is the first of four I made this weekend.
“Trees absorb and store greenhouse gases. A USDA study shows the trees in New York City alone remove 1,800 metric tons of air pollution from the local atmosphere. They provide shade, which also reduces how much energy we use.”—from Science Daily
The good news is that we don’t need to make people in other countries reduce their family sizes. The future of the planet rests on how our own cultures, the cultures of consumption, change to slow population growth
Have more children to keep wages low – thank you, The Management
Don't forget that manufacturing cars and things uses lots and lots of fuel – mostly dirty coal from power plants
Stopping immigration won't stop global warming
Who doesn't feel this way
Employees must have two or more children to supply a steady supply of low-wage workers
Paul Gilding’s book The Great Disruption: Why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world explains our enormous environmental challenges clearly and head-on. Gilding describes the complexity and enormity of our climate change and resource depletion, and how these will impact economies, governments, and personal lives. Gilding is excellent at refuting the dodges, denials, rationalizations, and excuses used regularly by conservatives to counter environmental calls to action. The Great Disruption does an excellent job of describing our current predicaments regarding not just excess CO2 in the atmosphere, but the depletion of the things that keep life, and the economy, moving. These include forests, clean water, nitrogen, phosphates, and a variety of things that cannot just be manufactured into existence. Gilding then describes how emerging technologies in areas such as alternative energy will become more affordable as we run out of conventional fuels, and how these will energize a new economy. Finally,
Paul Gilding’s book The Great Disruption: Why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world explains our enormous environmental challenges clearly and head-on. Gilding describes the complexity and enormity of our climate change and resource depletion, and how these will impact economies, governments, and personal lives. Gilding is excellent at refuting the dodges, denials, rationalizations, and excuses used regularly by conservatives to counter environmental calls to action. The Great Disruption does an excellent job of describing our current predicaments regarding not just excess CO2 in the atmosphere, but the depletion of the things that keep life, and the economy, moving. These include forests, clean water, nitrogen, phosphates, and a variety of things that cannot just be manufactured into existence. Gilding then describes how emerging technologies in areas such as alternative energy will become more affordable as we run out of conventional fuels, and how these will energize a new economy. Finally,
Soooo … young women should have to bear and raise babies they don't want, so that The Greatest Generation can retire in comfort. Wow! With moralists like Santorum, what do crass materialists sound like
Gaddafi in denial amid Libyan rebellion Jane Cowan, Craig McMurtrie and staff; ABC News, Australia Updated Mar 1, 2011 Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi insisted “all my people love me” as unrest continued across the country … “They love me. All my people with me. They love me all. They would die to protect me,” the veteran Libyan leader said speaking in halting English in an interview with Western media shown on the BBC’s world news website. The UN says more than 1,000 people have been killed and more than 100,000 people have fled the strife into Egypt and Tunisia over the past week as Mr Gaddafi attempts to put down an uprising.” Denial is saying something isn’t so. Denialism is a pattern of saying something isn’t so, despite overwhelming and reasonable evidence to the contrary. I am getting more and more interested in population denialism. It seems some people will say population growth isn’t a problem, no matter what
“Trees absorb and store greenhouse gases. A USDA study shows the trees in New York City alone remove 1,800 metric tons of air pollution from the local atmosphere. They provide shade, which also reduces how much energy we use.”—from Science Daily
The good news is that we don’t need to make people in other countries reduce their family sizes. The future of the planet rests on how our own cultures, the cultures of consumption, change to slow population growth
“… the 20% of the world’s people in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures; the poorest 20% consume a tiny 1.3%; while the middle 60% (around 4 billion people) consume only 12.7%.” —from Unesco.org
Should we have children to take care of us in our old age? What if we put the same amount of energy into taking care of ourselves right now
Certainly for many people, pregnancy is a beautiful outcome of a loving relationship. But we can’t assume that is always the case. Unintended pregnancy occurs more commonly in abusive relationships, which often involve - Forced sex - Fear of violence if the girl or woman refuses sex - Difficulties negotiating contraception and condom use in the context of an abusive relationship — from Reproductiive Coercion, by Elizabeth Miller, Beth Jordan, Rebecca Levenson, Jay G. Silverman, June 2010 The New York Times has, at last, covered this issue!
We don't want a steak dinner because it's delicious, we want it because it represents the good life to our kind of people
No, I didn’t cut a stencil and selectively bleach some moss – but you could. You probably won’t, but what if you could create a message that other people would read, without it destroying property? Without using up spray paint? What would you say
Ever since we ran out of arable land, food is oil. Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten
