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by spodek 7y ago
Vegetarian is more efficient than meat, but if we use every efficiency to increase the population, we end up hitting other limits to growth. What Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Prize for the Green Revolution, said applies here: "The
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Limits to Growth, the 30 Year Update Many videos: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=donella+meadows&atb=v173-1&iax=vid... Many Dennis Meadows (her husband) videos: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dennis+meadows&am
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Reminds me of the lines from the song Big Yellow Taxi, "They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and charged the people a dollar and a half to see them," and "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." I
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I've learned to interpret the word convince to mean provoke debate . Influence, persuasion, and other forms of leadership rarely benefit from convincing.
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Nobody can make you feel guilty. Perhaps you mean they make you feel more aware of the guilt you already feel.
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I teach at NYU. My courses are in book form too: https://www.amazon.com/Initiative-Proven-Method-Bring-Passio... https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/... My friend's school
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Visiting a high school my friend founded to be inquiry-driven project-based learning from the ground up moved me away from teaching in ways divorced from regular life. From a systemic approach, it's hard not to look at the universities
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Apply this principle to flying and even people who embrace JOMO and profess to care about the environment go nuts and refuse to consider not flying. There is huge FOMO at the root of flying. There's incredible joy and abundance without
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The top picture in the article said "You must own a car here" and likely most households own more than one, with at least one being an SUV. Living in Manhattan, I sometimes go weeks without taking the subway or bus, years without
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If the screens can't change at all, I agree, but non-interactive doesn't necessarily mean not changeable. If they can be changed, this situation is a tough call. I can see the benefit to screens if NYCT can - Replace the images wi
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> to falsly claim that they've removed "Don't Be Evil" when it's clearly still there makes it just a straight up lie. I wrote, ". . .relegated to more minor places. Last I heard 'Don't be evil&#x
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> Revenue and business impact are ALL that matter. You might want to look up b-corporations if you haven't. They take into account employees, communities, and the environment as parts of their charters. I'd heard about them f
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Their meetings must be like Phillip Morris or whatever it's called now: "This advertising method work great! What other markets can we apply it to?" "There is this a market it works even better on, and keeps them coming
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Henry Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is about not being able to send money to an organization without funding projects he doesn't want to fund, therefore not sending money at all. Many consider it an important work, inc
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That chart shows a positive growth rate beyond 2100, which means continued exponential growth, not a decreasing population. Lowering population alone doesn't solve every problem, but without it, many problems are unsolvable.
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> The best option is to densify our cities. This is hard, too Leveling off or lowering the human population through lower birth rates works better. I'm not saying it's simple or even possible since so many people jump to conc
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I wonder if they could put up a sign saying "please help us reduce pollution by accepting our bottled water at room temperature, power isn't as available here" or something better worded and skip refrigerating it.
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And the chickens' perspective, which matters to many people. And the workers' perspective depending on the source of the chickens.
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> I never expected the mental benefits to be so pronounced. Indeed it is fair to say it has had a nootropic effect. People can define normal how they want, but if you were eating lots of refined products, I suggest considering the way
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> The "born this way" aspect of gay activism Gays aren't the only ones who say they are born that way. As far as I know, everyone who is straight does too. Not that I researched it scientifically, but every straight pers
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Glad to see this perspective as the top comment that this community upvoted. Our values determine where we devote our engineering resources -- time, money, attention, brilliance. If we degrade the environment to where it can't sustain
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Oh yeah? This Wikipedia page is pure clickbait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
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Besides phones, other applications: - Wait for movie hype to end to avoid crap movies with great marketing. I usually wait to borrow them from the library. - I buy all my computers used from Craig's List. I'm typing on one I paid
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I challenged myself to avoid packaged food for a week. It went so well that I continued, in the process learning to cook from scratch. I was surprised to learn that it took less time, cost less, tasted better, and led me to see packaged foo
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Restore home economics to school, along with reasonable lunch time and recess. People think packaged food is more convenient or cheaper. Cooking from scratch isn't more expensive or time consuming. Not knowing how to cook and shop is
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Dave Chappelle's sketch on if we treated corporate criminals like street drug dealers is relevant (and funny) https://youtu.be/HeOVbeh2yr0 . Yet more relevant when the corporate criminals are drug dealers.
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What does being vegetarian have to do with telling other people what they should or shouldn't eat?
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> the voting system's protocols weren't yet available in English, so Gaudry couldn't investigate further. What's the relevance to a French researcher of publishing Russian protocols in English?
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Let me know if I can help. I'm easy to find online.
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I propose a civilian service academy and civilian service, which would achieve most of a draft's goals without the military. American infrastructure could use it, among other benefits. I talk about it in episode 138 in my podcast: htt

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