<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Think globally by thinking locally]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by wiscidea http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:58:24 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/1 yes

I was going to tell a short story, but there's no need to.

Details aren't necessary.

There is nothing like an immediate threat to everything a person values to motivate him or her to change their habits and, indirectly, save the rest of the Earth's organisms at the same time.

Enough said.

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I was going to tell a short story, but there's no need to.

Details aren't necessary.

There is nothing like an immediate threat to everything a person values to motivate him or her to change their habits and, indirectly, save the rest of the Earth's organisms at the same time.

Enough said.

]]> Comment #2 by LGT http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:03:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/2 Know Exactly Where You Are Heading! [?]

Local and Global!

Without a complete change of direction in human activities, the economy and lifestyles ...

http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/giga-trends/

]]> Know Exactly Where You Are Heading! [?]

Local and Global!

Without a complete change of direction in human activities, the economy and lifestyles ...

http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/giga-trends/

]]> Comment #3 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:50:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/3 Save our snow

My dog Arnie's "Sled Dogs Against Global Warming.  SAVE OUR SNOW, And the local businesses and jobs that depend upon it."   campaign was a big hit in the July 4th parades, this past summer and the summer before.

People do identify with it.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/5/3 ...

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> Save our snow

My dog Arnie's "Sled Dogs Against Global Warming.  SAVE OUR SNOW, And the local businesses and jobs that depend upon it."   campaign was a big hit in the July 4th parades, this past summer and the summer before.

People do identify with it.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/5/3 ...

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> Comment #4 by LGT http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:28:28 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/4 Up close, local and personal !

US West is heating nearly twice as fast as RoW:

http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/hotter-and-drier/

]]> Up close, local and personal !

US West is heating nearly twice as fast as RoW:

http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/hotter-and-drier/

]]> Comment #5 by NiraliSherni http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:59:13 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/5 Spot On!

Like someone said, "it is difficult to make someone understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it". So this i a good way to make people think of the planet to make them think about themselves.

The bad news is that US emissions not down but up nearly 3% in 2007 over the last year!

]]> Spot On!

Like someone said, "it is difficult to make someone understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it". So this i a good way to make people think of the planet to make them think about themselves.

The bad news is that US emissions not down but up nearly 3% in 2007 over the last year!

]]> Comment #6 by LegumeSam http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:52:00 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/think-globally-by-thinking-locally/6 End global capitalism!

Localities will have to ADAPT to abrupt climate change; but the problem will really only be resolved with the end of the global capitalist system.

Yeah, let's cut "emissions" 5% per year.  (It's a hallmark of capitalist ideology that even its so-called "environmentalism" cannot distinguish between out-of-control fossil fuel burning and respiration, both of which count as "emissions.")  Then some other economy can use the fossil-fuels we're not using!

Big contradiction: infinitely-hungry growth economics, finite planet.

From Paul Prew's "The 21st Century World Ecosystem":

The question to be asked, really, is whether we proceed with capitalism until we reach an ecological bifurcation point that leaves the habitability of the earth in question for the vast majority of the population, or we reach a social bifurcation point that leads us to a social system of production that is dissipative, nonetheless, but does not threaten the flowing balance of nature.

Sorry!  Them's the breaks!  

http://www.dailykos.com/User/Cassiodorus

]]> End global capitalism!

Localities will have to ADAPT to abrupt climate change; but the problem will really only be resolved with the end of the global capitalist system.

Yeah, let's cut "emissions" 5% per year.  (It's a hallmark of capitalist ideology that even its so-called "environmentalism" cannot distinguish between out-of-control fossil fuel burning and respiration, both of which count as "emissions.")  Then some other economy can use the fossil-fuels we're not using!

Big contradiction: infinitely-hungry growth economics, finite planet.

From Paul Prew's "The 21st Century World Ecosystem":

The question to be asked, really, is whether we proceed with capitalism until we reach an ecological bifurcation point that leaves the habitability of the earth in question for the vast majority of the population, or we reach a social bifurcation point that leads us to a social system of production that is dissipative, nonetheless, but does not threaten the flowing balance of nature.

Sorry!  Them's the breaks!  

http://www.dailykos.com/User/Cassiodorus

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