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  Strong beliefs

  Who needs science to shape your view of the world if sticking with the opinions you have since high school is necessary (unless you want to be called a flip-flopper) and certainly enough (unless you don't have faith)?

  There are too many people like this in this world. Leading while not looking.

  Karsten
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  Practical Advice to Pollute Less On Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been lax on industrial pollution posted 1 year, 1 month ago 1 Response

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  And don't buy a new car...

  ...unless your old one is unrepairable. A new car (even/especially a hybrid) most of the time INCREASES your footprint unless you are driving a U-haul van with 5 mpg. Keep the old one until it can no longer be used - then make a wise decision based on your needs and situation.

  Karsten
  http://www.polluteless.com On Umbra on small steps with big impacts posted 1 year, 1 month ago 18 Responses

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  Natural Process?

  If it was a matter of all of us being hardwired to reproduce we could neither change it, nor deny it to ourselves, nor lie to ourselves about it. Since many of us don't do it, this hardwiring argument is completely not valid.

  I learned a long time ago that at times of overpopulation some species turn infertile. The stress of having not enough to live results in biological changes and the animals have much fewer off spring. When the population shrinks to sustainable levels the stress to survive disappears and fertility returns. This leads me to believe that humans have this problem because we either do not feel enough stress yet, have lost (or never had) this natural response to overpopulation, or refuse to accept that there are times for having children, and times for not having children.

  I continue to feel that reason is either not our strong suit or that it is going to be the cause of our species' downfall.

  Have fewer children than there are parents, eat no meat, live small and simple, and maybe not that long. And educate the few existing children to live by the eco-wise standards us adults know a lot about, talk a lot about, but mostly are not willing to live by. And all too often, those adults are parents refusing to live more reasonably in order to "help" their children.

  Karsten
  http://www.polluteless.comOn Umbra on small steps with big impacts posted 1 year, 1 month ago 18 Responses

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  Length of driveway

  The length and width of a driveway should be considered as well. Too many people do not consider building their residence close to the street (or at least the car port). The higher priorities are still somewhere else. Mostly the views.

  Anyhow, shorter and more narrow drive ways cost less, and require less material, less maintenance, and most importantly, less snow removal. Of course with a shorter driveway also come shorter power and phone lines, shorter water lines, shorter waste water lines, etc. In some areas a shorter driveway removes the need for a 4-wheel-drive vehicle since you are close enough to a road and not up a hill.

  If you are connected to the grid (or network of roads), stay close to it!

  My two cents.

  Karsten
  http://www.polluteless.comOn Umbra on driveways posted 1 year, 1 month ago 9 Responses

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  So true

  The spectators are what counts here. Just like at any political debate about the same issues.

  KarstenOn In 2008, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 71 Responses