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   cosmoss Posted 8:36 am
   21 Nov 2007

   scary stuff...and who said the dollar was losing value.

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   caniscandida Posted 4:42 pm
   21 Nov 2007

   doomedIt certainly looks like a serious moral decline, even a decadence preceding the final catastrophe, when we eat meat as often as possible, and every meal almost by definition must include some meat.
   And possibly another sign of imminent collapse is Matt Groening's promotion of BK.  What irony!; could he be so sorely in need of money?
   
   Chickens are our cousins! So are fish! So are other sentient animals! Let us learn to be kind.

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   Pangolin Posted 5:44 pm
   21 Nov 2007

   Come again?As near as I can tell the people likely to purchase $1 double-cheeseburgers at Burger King are what Dickens so kindly referred to as "surplus population." They are productive but generally in the retail and service industries so thier loss has little impact.
   Construction workers eat at taco trucks and farm workers bring tamales or tortas from home. Most of the rest of you are just hangers on. I mean, does anyone rush to an real-estate agent or mortgage broker when there's an emergency?
   Air, water, grains, legumes, greens, meat, herbs, fuel and shelter; everything else is just gloss and gravy. (in that order) Civilization is doomed because we think image is more important than substance. BK's menu matters not at all in the big picture.
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 12:45 am
   22 Nov 2007

   Afterall, is the human species a danger to itself?Here and now, are there not a clear and present environmental dangers looming ominously before humanity that are directly derived from the threat posed by the gigantic scale and skyrocketing growth rate of absolute global human population numbers?
   From my humble perspective, humanity could soon to come face to face with formidable global challenges; but, humanity's greatest challenge (the proverbial "mother" of all potential global confrontations) is itself.
   Steven Earl Salmony
   
   AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
   
   http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/
   
   

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   jcwinnie Posted 7:28 am
   22 Nov 2007

   Doomed, I Say(Burp) Pass the ketchup, please.

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 8:09 am
   22 Nov 2007

   NOT doomed, just momentarily immobilizedAre we witnessing something odd and unfortunate: an unforeseen loss of courage in the family of humanity that is reflected in both the absence of a sense of urgency by our leaders and the lack of an insistent expression of outrage by the public regarding the human-forced predicament in which we find ourselves in these early years of Century XXI?
   Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
   
   AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
   
   http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 5:56 am
   23 Nov 2007

   Perhaps self-limiting change is in the offingTHREE QUESTIONS with a fourth question as a response.
   1)What is happening? 2)Why do we keep doing what we are doing now, with the understanding that we will keep getting what we are getting now? 3)When will we change our way of life from "what is patently unsustainable" to "what is ecologically sustainable"?
   4)Are we witnessing something odd and unfortunate: an unforeseen loss of courage in the family of humanity that is reflected in both the absence of a sense of urgency by our leaders and the lack of an insistent expression of outrage by the public regarding the potentially dangerous, human-forced predicament in which we find ourselves in these early years of Century XXI?
   Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
   
   AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
   
   http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/

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