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Comment on Science and Certainty by Grier Raggio

Grier Raggio — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:26:45 +0000

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Comment on Science and Certainty by ARUNA.G.K

ARUNA.G.K — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:21:32 +0000

Really informative and interesting.I would love to read more posts.
Thank you!

Comment on Thanksgiving and a Summing Up by Collagemama

Collagemama — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:08:09 +0000

“Too late” and “too little” are pretty scary concepts. You have tried to warn us, and I thank you for that effort.

Comment on Thanksgiving and a Summing Up by Steve Love

Steve Love — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:29:22 +0000

My dear friend, this is a step in the right direction, but I would encourage you to go the next step and that is to be actively engaged in the political arena in support of the only people who come anywhere close to sharing your concern for the challenges of transitioning to a more sustainable economy that will benefit future generations. And those people are in the Democratic Party.
So long as we have an economy which funnels more and more of the world’s wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer persons and out of the control of the public sector, we will have the brainless consumption that threatens the ecology and social stability.
The captains of industry have never shown the foresight to move us in that direction in the past, so we have to have enlightened leadership in DC and Austin if we want to bend the curve in favor of a sustainable future. I urge you to focus your energy in that direction!

Comment on Thanksgiving and a Summing Up by George Draper

George Draper — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:02:32 +0000

I think this new direction is a positive one, Grier. Sooner than most people think, advice on adaptation and resilience is what the world will need, to say nothing about compassion, which it has always needed, to little avail.

George

Comment on Elections and Energy Policy by Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:32:04 +0000

Well, the last four years have shown America’s green house gasses decline. They have also shown an explosion in Chinese and Indian greenhouse gas creation.

We have yet to convince the rest of the world to give up economic improvement in order to improve our quality of life in the terms of climate stabilization and we are not doing proactive carbon capture (e.g. http://news.cnet.com/Seeding-the-ocean-to-capture-carbon/2100-11395_3-6182861.html) either.

Even worse, many of those who should be leading the way by example are instead leading the way on the other end. Until we have people moving back into sub-1000 square foot living spaces, choosing high mileage cars over status vehicles, and similar things.

Even asking people to just drive the speed limits results in open scoffing from many environmentalists, as I learned when discussing that point with some of the guys from the WEC.

Comment on A Graceful Retreat by An Orderly Retreat | We ConsumeToo Much

An Orderly Retreat | We ConsumeToo Much — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:16:55 +0000

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Comment on I May Vote for Mitt Romney by A Vote for Barack Obama | We ConsumeToo Much

A Vote for Barack Obama | We ConsumeToo Much — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:04:49 +0000

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Comment on Inscrutable Sandy by Stephen Lerer

Stephen Lerer — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:43:58 +0000

The environmental fact is that we have more and more extreme weather conditions. Hurricane Sandy is the latest example. There have been 100-year
floods and storms every few years. The concept of “global warming’ causes
a debate. The concept of protecting ourselves is not open to debate. We
have to focus on how best to minimnize these extremes and protect ourselves.