Comments KevinMichael has made

I really want that Bill Nye show!

He has a voice and expertise ripe for documentary-type programs. Very cool dude.

Stay positive, love your life.

How will bike riders contribute?

I think bike lanes are wonderful. What is the best way to collect money from bike riders for their construction and maintenance? Portland, OR currently steals money from gasoline taxes paid entirely by motorists. F- that. On How to green your commute posted 1 year, 6 months ago 20 Responses

A couple of questions...

Why are beggars allowed to be choosers in this or any case? Why is anyone listening to Africa about anything? I don't think we or anyone who eats three meals a day should accept agricultural advice from any African nation.

Take the 'GM' food and shut up. Better yet, redirect every dollar currently funding domestic food aid and ship it to any nation that APPRECIATES it. If you live in this country and cannot feed yourself or your family you are worthless and should go hungry.

I wish our cowardly politicians would just do what makes sense. Instead they burden hard working people with the problems of those who do not work or make poor decisions in life, i.e. Food Stamps, Medicaid, Universal Healthcare, subsidized housing, etc.  
On Federal food-aid package promotes GMOs posted 1 year, 6 months ago 7 Responses

Critical Mass Sucks

If bicycle advocates want to achieve what is best for cyclists they should actively discourage Critical Mass events. Like the reasonable person above (NBKBoston)writes, bicycles have a very defined limit for their saturation and practicality.

Rounding up a bunch of burnouts with nappy dreads to slowly ride through a city is highly counter productive. Why? Aside from the participants, the only people who benefit/enjoy these events are the cops who cash overtime checks from having to monitor these events.

If you honestly look at the impact of Critical Mass you will find deleterious effects. I live in Portland and was formerly enthusiastic about everything green and sustainable. I say formerly because I have had a change of heart. Critical Mass-like events do not motivate politicians like the proponent wrote above, they alienate normal people like myself who don't want this stuff crammed down their throats. Riding through my neighborhood like a bunch of clowns does not add credence to the 95% of bicycle commuters who are normal, tax paying citizens.

Seriously, CM just adds to traffic congestion (air pollution+CO2), delays mass transit commuters, and perhaps worst of all, alienates potential environmentalists who want to do the right thing.

Today, I am much more in alignment with those who say bikes should be registered so they contribute financially to all the special infrastructure they require. Thanks Critical Mass!

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This is hard to believe.

What is 6,000 tons of sunscreen divided by all the water in the seven oceans? Is that ppm calculation even detectable? On Sunscreen-slathered swimmers contributing to coral bleaching, says study posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses

And you thought the writers strike was bad!

Lake Mead running dry...wow, that will cost billions. This is not good news for those people who enjoy fresh fruit/vegetables during the winter months. A lot of those crops are irrigated from that lake-river structure.

-Bummed about the loss of tomatoes in JanuaryOn Lake Mead could run out of water by 2021, says study posted 1 year, 9 months ago 11 Responses

Morganmghee

The war in Iraq is not an optional or discretionary cost as you are characterizing it. To say that we chose to fight a war, spend billions of dollars, and lose thousands of American lives when we could have directed the effort at carbon compliance is not true.

You would rather walk out of the mall and be carbon compliant that live in a country sponsoring the war in Iraq. What you fail to realize is that you are walking out of the mall without fear of becoming a pink mist in a terrorist plot, i.e. Israel, Bali, Spain, Beslan. Like Bush or not, we have not had a terrorist attack in this country since 9-11.

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JavaEarth-

Do you try to intimidate everyone who has a different point of view? On Federal officials suggest killing sea lions to protect salmon posted 1 year, 10 months ago 40 Responses

I see no problem with this.

150 seal lions? Big deal. They are a menace to salmon and any reasonable person should have no problem identifying the most important species in this case. Of course dams are the biggest threat to salmon populations but we are a modern society that has to except some level of animal/habitat kill to facilitate our modern way of life.
Salmon provide an invaluable commercial service to Native Americans in Oregon and Washington as well as providing hundreds of thousands of people the pleasure of eating such a delicious and healthy animal.

Eradicating sea lions within a reasonable distance from these dams is a very common sense solution to saving such an important animal. If this plan isn't approved by the Fisheries and Wildlife organizations, hopefully some well meaning fisherman will do it themselves, a la The Boondock Saints. On Federal officials suggest killing sea lions to protect salmon posted 1 year, 10 months ago 40 Responses

Amazingdrx

Amazing-

I think Al Gore and his crusade to educate and mitigate the damages of global warming are noble and well intentioned. Additionally, I was not defending George Bush and his environmental record or lack thereof.

More to the point, I was attacking the premise of this very discussion. The collective habits of the 1 or 2 billion people not living in caves are the biggest concern for our planet.

Just because I don't believe its right to take pot shots at a single person for the actions/consumption of a few billion people, well I guess I must be Bush defending, Limbaugh listening zealot. You are wrong, keep blaming everyone but yourself it makes you feel better.

Lastly, Amazing, if you are reading this you just validated my point. Honestly think about the embodied energy of all YOUR daily activities.

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Build it bigger, higher, longer, faster! NOW!

This country needs a fence, a giant one. If we redirected the money spent incarcerating, feeding, medicating, educating (en espanol!) these people we would have an impenetrable fence with comprehensive monitoring by immigration and border patrol agents. I for one am not afraid of a US w/o cheap labor. If the price of peaches goes up $0.45/lb, it will not make a big deal in my life. Saying a fence is futile is like saying that is pointless to bail the water out of a  sinking boat. The alternative is to simply sink faster. Criminalize these people, they are breaking the law and destroying a great nation. At the very least do not subsidize their living expenses.    On Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall posted 2 years, 1 month ago 38 Responses