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by spodek 7y ago
If you want to add all the benefits, a fair consideration requires looking at all the costs, which you neglected. Pollution is but one. I don't know enough to say where the cost-benefit analysis ends up, but I'm inclined to believ
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I hope everyone concludes that the top level strategy everyone can implement is to reduce plastic use and demand at every level -- government, corporate, and, yes, individual. Recycling is a tactic. Without a strategy, a tactic often won&#x
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If you're going to travel the world many times, learn to sail and favor trains. Or define "world" as smaller than the actual globe. The benefits of travel are numerous. They were there before our understanding of global heati
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by spodek 7y ago
Beyond preschool, learn about Sudbury Valley School and other self-directed learning. I find it mind-blowing how much more we learn when outside mainstream education, which constrains us. I've compiled many videos and links on it, as w
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The description confuses innovation with effectiveness: > The tech industry was rapidly evolving and yet college curriculum was frozen in time. My high school CS teacher had been more innovative in offering a project-based education tha
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Tough call: Goodhart's Law says yes, metrics will be gamed, but Betteridge's law says the answer is no.
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> Emotion-driven politics. You must be talking about the people not reacting to the science: fear of acting, denial, complacency.
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I met her boat when it landed at New York and spoke a few words with her. I saw her speak in a fireside chat and spoke with people who have spent time with her. She's plenty mature.
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When I hear an adult praising 'the youth movement', I hear an adult making an excuse for not taking responsibility him or herself. People keep asking, "But what should I do?" There are innumerable resources with what to
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I just posted a podcast episode, 222: Why Eat Insects http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-raves-and-monologues-vo... , on why we're seeing all these clever new ways to create food: bugs, vertical farming, fake mea
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by spodek 7y ago
When I finished my PhD in physics, my father asked me what I might want as a gift. My first company got its first investment so I knew I was leaving academia. The world outside academia had white boards, which felt unnatural and the markers
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Jean Renoir's 1937 movie The Grand Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Illusion treats this issue with subtlety and nuance. Many consider it one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Decades ago three people independently said to me, "I've known you a long time but I don't feel I know the real you." I saw I was the common element so decided to change. I learned social and emotional skills, which took
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by spodek 7y ago
Increasing efficiency is different than lowering total waste. People push for efficiency thinking it will lower total waste, but you can easily increase efficiency and increase total waste. In the physical environment, total waste is our bi
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by spodek 7y ago
We're swimming in environmental problems. We can come up with makeshift solutions to many, but for solving them all, and not to suggest it's the only solution, but a part of anything comprehensive, is there any environmental probl
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Since 1984, one might say.
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Can we stop subsidizing oil and corn too?
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The scariest thing to me is that people think their actions won't make a difference. I was speaking to an organization about reducing its flying. In the spring they wouldn't consider it. One 16-year-old girl, Greta Thunberg, saili
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by spodek 7y ago
> Do you understand what it is like to be a woman, to have to look over your shoulder so much of the time, the fear and anxiety that follows you or prevents you from walking alone at night or in a strange place? Do you understand what
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It's also more common for the man to do work that is more dangerous, exposed to the elements, requires more travel, and other hazards to earn the extra money the risk brings.
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by spodek 7y ago
Success for labor will truly come when they can do what management did: globalize. If labor is cheaper elsewhere, can they get them to strike together? Are they trying to connect with them?
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by spodek 7y ago
The Central Park 5 is utterly heartbreaking. I think it's Ken Burns' closest to today. I believe all its main people are alive today. One is in the White House. What he did in this case was unconscionable. https://www.p
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by spodek 7y ago
My CSAs drop the produce off at my pick-up point in milk crates they bring back the next week. My food coop loads the bulk bins from giant bags. Grocery stores don't have much appeal to me.
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by spodek 7y ago
Mostly from my CSAs and food coop. I wrote about them in my blog. http://joshuaspodek.com/where-to-buy-the-best-food-around-ne... I bring bags with me.
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by spodek 7y ago
Agreed. My past several computers have been used from Craig's List, $500 for roughly $2,000 machines. Installing Mint has been flawless. Everything just works (Lenovo Carbon X1).
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by spodek 7y ago
We can all help stop this. Everyone can reduce their contribution. I cut out nearly all packaged food, which reduced my garbage to where I empty it less than once a year (I'm in month 13 of my current load). I was pleasantly surprised
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I agree with Donella Meadows that top leverage points of changing systems are its beliefs and goals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points . Once the idea of humans flying was beyond fantasy, now we consid
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I thought it was going to be more like Zoolander: "In the computer": https://youtu.be/L_o_O7v1ews or https://youtu.be/H2uHBhKTSe0
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Even faster and more delicious in a pressure cooker.
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I'm against writing too when the first sentence includes an affectation like "wait for it": > ... an excerpt from The Phaedrus, a dialog between Socrates and someone named — wait for it — Phaedrus...

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