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by spodek 5y ago
How did the author miss the point of cars so much? > One common explanation for the decline of urban and neighborhood beauty is the rise of the automobile, which makes it harder to develop such places. Surely cars and traffic can ruin m
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by spodek 5y ago
Or for our culture of growth, believing we can outdo nature, like stories in The Onion's reporting on the Titanic: "World's Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg" https://lh4.ggpht.com/-gWV2MSK4odI/T4yLpd1S
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by spodek 5y ago
Came here to comment on how much park space there was in lower Manhattan. Not the same type a loss as the explosion, but a tragic loss nonetheless.
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by spodek 5y ago
Why do we view communities as competing with each other? How does people working in Texas, or China for that matter, hurt people in California? Don't we want people everywhere thriving?
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by spodek 5y ago
The greater, more immediate problem than running out with fossil fuels is that their pollution is killing people and lowering Earth's ability to sustain life. Around ten million people a year die just from breathing air, which is incre
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by spodek 5y ago
The climate and environment are critically important, as everyone knows from daily front page disasters that will increase. I have a PhD in physics and have made sustainability my mission. I wish I didn't have to as fixing problems pas
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by spodek 5y ago
They're living in the rich cousin scene in Children of Men, where they dine in front of Guernica and the rich cousin says "I just don't think about it." Here's that scene: https://youtube.com/watch?v
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by spodek 5y ago
It's not just the equipment. It's also the corporate culture behind it. If we in the US magically changed all the technology from Europe's or Japan's rail system with ours, but not the people running them and their cultu
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by spodek 5y ago
Four words from the Pope could have the greatest effect per effort of any act on our environmental problems: "You can use contraception." It won't solve all problems, but it will help a lot. There is plenty of scripture he co
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by spodek 5y ago
The work of Ela Bhatt in India in the 70s may be relevant. She organized women who did odd jobs like delivering this and mending that, despite having no one entity to negotiate against/with, and created the Self-Employed Women's A
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by spodek 5y ago
Twenty years and one week ago, I lost everything I'd worked for. As far as I could tell at the time several patents, millions of dollars in funding, Ivy League degrees, a fortune in equity, all lost with no hope I could see for the fut
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by spodek 5y ago
Fixing things after we break them is nice, but did I miss the article mentioning not polluting the water in the first place? It seems relevant context that this proposed fix, no matter how effective, doesn't stop the pollution entering
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by spodek 5y ago
Mozilla should consider creating an option to switch the whole operating system to Linux. Obviously huge, but for some users maybe not hard. For some users welcome.
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by spodek 5y ago
The opening sentence shows a deep misunderstanding of climate change. > FOR HUMANS, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed houses and bigger flood defences may help ameli
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by spodek 5y ago
The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell covers this issue comprehensively. There are many beliefs and practices in our society that push boys and men out, especially in school. If you read the article, I recommend at least the free preview from
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by spodek 5y ago
I don't know what return to normalcy anyone is expecting given pollution and climate change. If normal for Americans means polluting and emitting greenhouse gases, we'll accelerate tremendous suffering, including ourselves. If we
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by spodek 5y ago
Not a word about reducing consumption? Americans consume more power than almost anyone and it's not improving our lives. Most of us can reduce our consumption 75% just on simple life improvements, at home and business. Nothing pollutes
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by spodek 5y ago
I loved flying, but the headlines of how oil extraction destroys communities and wildlife, burning it warms the globe, and flying everywhere tears apart communities, families, and cultures, creating craving and dissatisfaction . . . I could
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by spodek 5y ago
And here is one of many criticisms of the work: Book review: Bad science and bad arguments abound in ‘Apocalypse Never’ by Michael Shellenberger https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-scienc... . T
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by spodek 5y ago
When buying clothes, never consider Goodwill or thrift shops as an outlet when you're done with them. Only consider wearing them, repairing them as necessary, as our ancestors did for the rest of your life. Buy only clothes that will l
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by spodek 5y ago
> Adayfi has huge sympathy for the guards who lived through Guantánamo with him, even though they played nasty tricks on the detainees – carting them around in aircrafts telling them they were going home, only to subject them to further
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by spodek 5y ago
Read just the introduction to Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains . Amazon's free preview shows most of it at https://www.amazon.com/Bury-Chains-Prophets-Rebels-Empires-d... . Nearly everyone said similar things in
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by spodek 5y ago
For overpopulation, Mechai Viravaidya's work in Thailand on lowering birth rates, plus many peers, like Costa Rica, Iran, and more. I posted a bunch of podcast episodes and blog entries on him https://joshuaspodek.com/?
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by spodek 5y ago
We can dance around environmental issues all we want. Everything reaches overconsumption and overpopulation eventually. Reducing both is straightforward and can be done with time-tested, strictly voluntary, noncoercive means that improve he
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by spodek 5y ago
More science doesn't hurt, but we lack leadership. Scientists are trained to research, report, and expand knowledge, but not the social and emotional skills to influence behavior. If we want other people to change, we have to recognize
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by spodek 5y ago
The 10,000+ athletes who flew around the world and the 100,000-odd attendees who also flew around the world can all offset their emissions with that savings /sarcasm. I love athletics and competition, but do the Olympics promote activi
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by spodek 5y ago
Beyond this title, most titles and the prevailing culture focuses on adding non-fossil fuel sources. But adding more alternatives doesn't mean decreasing carbon emissions and pollution. History shows that finding a new energy source le
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by spodek 5y ago
The best time to start is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. I just turned 50 and do calisthenics daily (over 175,000 burpees cumulatively, over 50 per day), requiring no equipment, spotter, money, or risk of injury. I have boug
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by spodek 5y ago
Yes, he receives handouts, but you left out his values of simplicity, community, and such. Jeff Bezos, the Walton family, and many peers also live off taxpayer money and impoverish poor communities by siphoning money from them, plenty of re
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by spodek 5y ago
> All credit to her for an extremely strong ride. And a better strategy, which is a major part of competition. People commenting on her being lucky. She had a better strategy.

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