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  agreed!

  The reason that greens continue to appeal to the "annihilation" aesthetic is because nobody bought the arguement that we should save nature because it is pretty. Panda bears are cute, but spotted owls aren't all that charismatic. And yet we have to save spotted owls for a variety of ecological reasons that have their roots in prudence, not aesthetic taste.

  "We are entering a period of consequences."

  On 'Church', from Songs of Shiloh, shows some love for the planet posted 1 year, 10 months ago 8 Responses

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  ice cream...

  Ben and Jerrys? Yes/no? I've heard good things about them. On 15 Green Business Founders posted 1 year, 10 months ago 33 Responses

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  well...

  If we make it expensive to emit carbon (and we stick to that) then, hopefully, there will be an economic incentive for development of parts 1, 2, and 3: we will be more efficient and we will use renewables. Hopefully, if emitting carbon is expensive enough, there won't be a large market for fossil fuels, because no one will be able to afford the cost of burning them. On Efficiency without renewable energy is not sufficient posted 1 year, 10 months ago 11 Responses

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  it's ironic....

  Cheap corn has wreaked havoc on our society: it helped create the obesity epidemic and the diabetes epidemic, it helped create the world of processed food, it helped to feed the growth of fast food chains and supermarkets and, with them, the growth of strip malls and sprawling suburbs. (Quick plug: everyone should watch the movie King Corn. Google it. It's awesome.)
  So any increase in the price of corn would seem like a very good thing...
  and yet ethanol is dumb on so many levels.
  Short-sighted government policy created our corn surplus in the first place, at great enviornmental and societal cost. Now short-sighted government policy is going to dispose of that surplus in the dumbest possible way.
  ARGGHHH. On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 10 months ago 5 Responses

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  oops...more thoughts

  The real solution to population growth? Renewable energy. The 'Third World' is going to modernize, whether we like it or not, and when they do so birth rates will fall, almost certainly. And population will stabilize. So the main worry should be this: how do we modernize the Third World without causing so much enviornmental destruction that it's all over? On Is it only OK to talk about limiting population after it's too late? posted 1 year, 10 months ago 117 Responses