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by spodek 9y ago
> but makes no such effort for studies on plant-based foods . . . specifically whole plant-based foods. He describes the health problems of hydrogenated oils, sugar, and products made from them. Is there a whole plant based food indu
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What about kids' doodles of mine workers, garbage collectors, soldiers killed in war, prisoners, and other undesirable fields? I would guess they still draw mostly men. Or rather, I would guess they don't even draw them or think a
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by spodek 9y ago
1. My nation elected a president more interested in plundering the environment than protecting it. 2. Nearly everyone feels "I want to act but if no one else does then my actions won't matter so I'll keep doing what I'm
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Sugar.
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Your description of them sounds nothing like my understanding of their culture and lives I got from the book. My point isn't to glorify anything (nor was the book's) anyway. There is plenty of evidence countering a faith in growth
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by spodek 9y ago
I recently finished reading Affluence Without Abundance, about bushmen in Southern Africa https://www.amazon.com/Affluence-Without-Abundance-Disappear... . Their culture survived stably without growth for over 100,000 years.
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by spodek 9y ago
> “The experience here can’t be replicated elsewhere, unless you have a major land invasion,” Parkland, Columbine, Newtown, . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
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Neutrinos were predicted based on observations of other particles before observed. Same with Pluto. The speed of light being constant isn't a particle but emerged from Maxwell's equations.
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The best way to reduce emissions is to reduce consumption. Let's help the process by buying less stuff to reduce the number of ships. We'll produce less litter and pollution too.
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For those interested in learning about the United States government moving from prosecuting white-collar criminals to settling, the difference between the SEC and Justice Department misses the point. The book The Chickenshit Club https:&#x
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by spodek 9y ago
Off topic, but your research may help answer a question I posed on HN a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16348676 : > The "digital nomads" I know fly more than anyone I know. The discounts they fin
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by spodek 9y ago
> “It’s not my fault it’s not being used, I’ve done everything a researcher can do,” El Halim said. What's wrong with much of traditional education summed up in one sentence.
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Saying exercise prevents decline normalizes being sedentary. I prefer considering exercise normal and saying its lack accelerates decline. Anyone is free to call normal what they want, but I find my way leads me to live more healthy.
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by spodek 9y ago
Why do nerds and geeks think we can do in space what we haven't on Earth? https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/why-do-nerds-geeks-think-w... My Inc. article asks why we think we will solve problems off Earth that w
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by spodek 9y ago
> forgetfulness doesn’t always occur (Princess Leia’s prison cell block number: AA-23) Sure, when it's the start of the Fibonacci sequence.
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by spodek 9y ago
The documentary The True Cost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGp5_Sfbss covers many of the problems with fast fashion -- the pollution, exploitation, and more, but especially the pollution. I stopped shopping those stores
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by spodek 9y ago
More like they'll create faces and bodies that are more attractive and sell more tickets than people they'd need to pay. And they'll create algorithms to animate emotions more accurately and creatively so they won't need
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by spodek 9y ago
The comments here don't seem to capture the importance of the "Boy" part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater. The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOur
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by spodek 9y ago
The article quotes an expert who disagrees: > Dr. Allen Frances, professor emeritus at Duke University School of Medicine, the former chairman of its psychiatry department, and the chairman of the DSM-IV (1994) task force, feels the pro
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by spodek 9y ago
You can look for causes all you want. They all lead to human population growth. Talking about it could possibly lead to finding something to do about it, which would mean deliberately lowering the birth rate. How? I don't know, but the
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by spodek 9y ago
Is there a male/female breakdown in the pattern of expressing moral outrage, signaling, receiving reward from likes and share, and amplifying it? Does either sex express more outrage? Does either sex receive more rewarding likes and sh
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by spodek 9y ago
There are clothes that don't need folding and lifestyles that don't need clothes that need folding.
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by spodek 9y ago
People believe you need growth, but you don't and there are major problems with it. I just read and recommend The Growth Delusion https://www.amazon.com/Growth-Delusion-Poverty-Well-Being-Na... , which talked about prob
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They're responding to people who buy fish, which is most people, so it's less "Global Fishing's" and more "Humanity's Exploitation of the Ocean". The maps look like a comment on our population growth,
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by spodek 9y ago
> But we also need to think about what choices are available to people As long as people act on what they can and not bog themselves down in analysis. The main reason is that the more people act, the more they find more opportunities to
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> Jevon's paradox occurs when an increase in efficiency results in so much additional use that per capita energy consumption increases. They also describe that we are lighting things we didn't use to light, keeping the lights o
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The meaningful question is what you, the person reading these words, will do about it. Most will think something like "I want to help, but if I act and no one else does it won't make a difference" or "they should pass la
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> Installing LED lights doesn't lead to people using more electricity. My quick research suggests otherwise. The first result when I searched on "people with led lights use more electricity" was The Lighting Paradox: Chea
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by spodek 9y ago
Check out the Leadership and the Environment podcast (disclosure: I host it). http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast
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People view technology as a deus ex machina that will enable them to keep doing what they're doing but magically it won't pollute any more. For example, many think that solar powered planes will enable flying without pollution, wh

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