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  at last...

  Finally, a mention of the most central environmental issue of all, the one that makes all the others worse, and is a central cause of most of them.  i can stop holding my breath now.  

  i third nagle and second brianbrussell.  Anybody here seen those great Nina Paley animations?

  i am glad for your contributions, Pangolin, though i have a coupla comments.  Your mom was more than replaced.  Five (kids/grandkids) is SO much more than two (your parents), or even 2.2 (or whatever fraction just above 2 that healthcare has reduced the statistical replacement rate to, by now).   Five (kids/grandkids) is also more than four [your parents plus two ghost grandparents representing the portion of your sibs' collective in-laws' genetic contributions that came into your line (as distinct from through their other kids), if you follow me].  i'm not trying to make you feel guilty (it never helps), just pointing out that pop growth did not stop in your family.  Your sibs and you are below replacement for yourselves (thinking short-term which eco folk shouldn't do) so kudos to your sibs and you.  i'm always glad for a man to speak out how great it feels post-vasectomy, so thanks.  Please, men, encourage other men to stop at zero and adopt. Recognising that accidents and egos happen, please further encourage other men to at least stop at second-best, which is after one.  And we'll all help you men, by working on other eco fronts to buy time, so that eventually the two-kids option will no longer require species extinctions the way it does now.

  As for clocks ticking, they can be annoying, but taking on that annoyance for oneself is honorable and responsible, while foisting the ecodamage from another human onto the world is neither.   An urge to sing in off-key falsetto can be annoying, too, but not nearly as much as giving in to it.  

  i AM glad Grist got to a population story.  Part of my disappointment in Grist is their double-standard for irony.  On other issues, Grist is willing to supply the irony and humor (boy, am i grateful for that; good work, Grist staff, on most stories).   But when a population issue finally gets into their elite party, they cluck about how it didn't bring its own irony with it.  Such clucking serves as a distancing from an issue they should own, and champion, and encourage us all to consider (perhaps using their characteristic irony and humor, so welcome].  Sigh.  Hey, Grist is good, and can do this better.  Another take on the population issue awaits as a chance to do better.   Please hurry, i'm drowning in masses and their effluent.
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  p.s. perhaps over-reliance on personal birth control punishes the thoughtful and gives the edge to the thoughtless.  We are, after all, subject to the same ecological constraints as all other species: in the absence of predation, when food supply increases, population invariably increases.  Perhaps we could consider controlling the ridiculous excess of food overproduction, the same amount as last season so nobody starves.  We could do it together so as to be fair.  Local food, funding farmers not for their voluminous yield but for their practices, selectively buying organic and small-scale, reshaping subsidies so they no longer benefit BigAg, working against the conversion of wild lands to farms, ensuring the hungry get access to local food unlike now, and simply raising these issues in public to stimulate the creativity of more of us.   What do you think? On Control Your Emissions posted 2 years, 6 months ago 8 Responses

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  Yes, art on global climate change

  Bill McKibben wants climate change to register on mass media and high-profile art; so do I.  Meanwhile, let's give credit to the art that does show up; a movement is dedicated to it!

  http://www.viridiandesign.org/
  http://www.viridiandesign.org/About.htm

  Ogle individual projects and contest archives and lots of links, many of which are rich in what  headline art is poor in.  Viridian isn't afraid of industrial design (where most artists actually work), and like any good art and design movement and certain online sources of environmental news, it doesn't take itself too seriously: you might find amazement or a chuckle.  

  Zot Lynn Szurgot

  p.s. The place for the non-art discussion on nuclear Co2 offsets:
  http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/5/3/134735/5295On What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art posted 4 years, 6 months ago 8 Responses