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  Right on Steven, we are raising awareness. Maybe a comment on a blog is just a microscopic baby step, but it is a step. Taken all together, all over the internet, these individual comments might just help convince 10% of the humans on planet earth to awaken to our collective plight in time? And realize the solutions will restore prosperity to the developed world and bring the vast majority of humanity that is in poverty up to some sort of comfort and security level. Prosperity and doing the right thing can go hand in hand. All it takes is 10% of us to realize that and the green energy, agriculture, and manufacturing re-evolution will proceed on it's own momentum. 10% is a big number in terms of commercial and political/cultural trends. It doesn't seem quite so daunting to get to that fraction on grass roots, blogland people power. The great progressive Howard Dean showed the Obama forces the way. We need to learn from their excellent examples.On Dispassion as the world ends: The absent heart of the great climate affair posted 1 day, 5 hours ago 96 Responses

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  The polling is flawed. Calling it global warming is the first mistake. Human induced green house gas climate change is a better term. A much better polling question on this topic might be: Should the US revive manufacturing and jobs by competing in the global race to end reliance on oil, coal, and fossil fuels? Or: Should the US ignore the problems of reliance on imported energy and the loss of manufacturing jobs and stay on the same course auto, oil and coal industry lobbyists have set out for us? Or: Should the US continue to lag in the manufacturing of electric cars, wind machines, solar energy devices, smart grid equipment, and energy efficiency devices, and continue to rely on foreign manufacturing? Polling is a pretty ridiculous activity in general, but it won't go away. So why not design polls that reframe these issues in a more progressive light? These sorts of questions...Do you believe in global warming, the devil, fairies, aliens, ghosts, death panels, all have about the same usefulness as far as public policy is concerned. Proceed from a faulty premise, and get lead down the garden path to an invalid conslusion. Did you see the latest Bachman Boener Newty over reach? "Tell your representatives! Dont take away my healthcare!" It's the same with this poll. "Do you believe in global warming?" Converts in the minds of the under informed into "Do you believe it's warmer today than it was yesterday?" Just do the poll in the fall and the result will be easily forseeable. And teabag the question into: "Do you believe the communist Obama administration, in league with liberal environmentalists, is trying to destroy our country with the myth of global warming?" Then you can get a riot. Hehehey.On Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery posted 2 days, 5 hours ago 2 Responses

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  So are you saying that the course Cheney set out for US is the right one? A continued reliance on imported oil and oil wars to get it. An economy at the mercy of merciless multinational corporations (many of them state owned like ARAMCO, the saudi national oil corp), international manipulated oil trading markets, and debt financed by oil producing nations. Are you suggesting we wait and let China manufacture all the devices needed for the new global energy economy? And that we keep on track making gas guzzlers and removing mountaintops to keep burning coal? Driving toyota and honda monster gas guzzling trucks and sUVs? I've noticed all the real "patriotic" gas guzzlers are switching to imported infernal combustion behemoths. Maybe you ought to form your own country then. Do you already live in Texas, the governor wants to secede from the union? Yes I'm sure you love teabagging as much as the next feller, you have proven that already. Please use it to destroy someone elses future, ours is spoken for already. Sarah Palin would make a great dictator. Good luck with all that.On Why the 'SuperFreakonomics' global-warming chapter is worth your time posted 2 days, 6 hours ago 12 Responses

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  It's true isaac, the sheer volume of regulations might be way too big. Enforcement of the useful ones, like food safety, anti-trust, insider trading, and market manipulation is misdirected and ineffective. Enforcement needs to be applied through random testing, the same way quality control works on an assembley line. Yep, biofuelishness is rampant, blending subsidies, burning rain forest to make palm oil, and so forth are the result of criminal corporate lobbying. On waste stream biomass though, the future is bright. Not only from traditional sources, sewage, farm waste, factory waste, manure, garbage, and waste wood. Think of all that weed and algae overgrowth clogging waterways, a fantastic resource for clean energy to backup a renewable distributed smart grid, GHG prevention, organic fertilizer, toxin removal, and a great opportunity to restore healthy biodiversity to lakes and rivers. A combination of aqua-culture and algae energy and organic fertilizer alone could be huge. Imagine a supply of fish that pregnant women and kids could eat safely (minus the mercury and stray hormones) and that helps relieve pressure on wild fish. An eco-capitalist's dream. Onward. Do good, do well.On Dispassion as the world ends: The absent heart of the great climate affair posted 2 days, 6 hours ago 96 Responses

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  That's the key to stopping the big biosphere killing dragnet of constant consumption. Quality over quantity. Poetry over propaganda. Simplicity and efficiency over energy "richness". Taste over supersize.On Simple people posted 2 days, 16 hours ago 5 Responses