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by spodek 9y ago
You've mischaracterized their work. They didn't predict what you said they did. They showed a range of possible outcomes based on assumptions, among many. You seem to have picked one outcome as their only one and called it their p
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by spodek 9y ago
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” -- Jack Handy Potentially relevant about them glowing all the time?
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by spodek 9y ago
Since bulldozing trees began many of those malls, how about returning them back to the natural state we clearcut?
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by spodek 9y ago
The framers of the U.S. Constitution knew the risks of the government creating and granting monopolies, however limited. The incentives are to remove the limitations and expand them. The industries formed by these government-granted and def
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by spodek 9y ago
Two of the greatest opening lines to books: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude “It was inevi
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by spodek 9y ago
I remember the first time reading this book, or rather the 30 year update -- https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19... -- thinking, " this is the approach to take to understand how the
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by spodek 9y ago
Besides Pai and the top shareholders of some companies, how many people actually want this proposed repeal? I'd guess most people don't know or care. Still, millions wrote to object to the proposed repeal. Is it possible that on
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by spodek 9y ago
The issue is not what I want. The issue is that there is not enough water per person. Efficiency gains and technology will help with the numerator somewhat, though probably swamped by increased material consumption. We can talk about the de
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by spodek 9y ago
Dozens of high-tech and massive public works solutions. None address the root problem: population growth. Globally, not just in China. Everyone will knee-jerk respond about their one-child policy. It doesn't change that population grow
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by spodek 9y ago
I was in college in the 80s and 90s so it didn't make it on line.
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by spodek 9y ago
Reinforcing the importance of dumb mistakes... A friend wrote a heartfelt essay in a campus magazine that the rest of us found laughable. We taunted and laughed at him for years about it. A couple years ago he won a Pulitzer Prize. The line
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by spodek 9y ago
I'm confused by Plasticbank. They seem to pay for plastic. While they divert plastic from oceans, doesn't paying for plastic increase demand? It sounds like the Cobra Effect -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
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by spodek 9y ago
Homo sapiens have existed hundreds of thousands of years without plastic. 13 hours this post has been up and almost no mention of reducing plastic consumption. It costs zero, sends the signal upstream to produce less, and solves all these p
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by spodek 9y ago
Helping people install Linux to migrate away from Apple might make their protests more effective.
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by spodek 9y ago
The difference between American energy talk and practice runs deep. I don't see these families as more hypocritical, just more powerful. I dislike these families blocking this initiative, but talk to almost any American about how much
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by spodek 9y ago
Wikipedia's definition arguably includes the non-fictional Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror, or fear, to achieve a political, rel
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by spodek 9y ago
We seem to plunder the environment until it kills us.
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by spodek 9y ago
The subway is the preferred entry-level electric transportation of millions of New Yorkers, including me. New York City delivery-men mostly use electric bikes, probably built from Chinese models used by hundreds of millions in China.
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by spodek 9y ago
Not without due process. That's what the Constitution is for.
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Drowning in garbage(washingtonpost.com)
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by spodek 9y ago
> Having a eatery which is subsidized by government distorts this local market and adversely affects the other businesses in the area since they also cater to similar demographic with largely similar products. Same in the U.S. about Mc
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by spodek 9y ago
The article lists protein density in grams of protein per cup or ounce, but a more relevant measure is grams of protein per calorie. Most people's health issue is too many calories. In grams of protein per calorie, many plants score hi
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by spodek 9y ago
I recommend finding out for yourself by trying each and seeing the results. It will cost you nothing in time or money. I guarantee you will learn more about yourself than you would imagine and develop skills applicable throughout life. I re
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by spodek 9y ago
Joel Runyon's Cold Shower Therapy is an awesome introduction, at least for certain types, which includes me. https://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy I've taken cold showers regularly for years. One of the bes
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by spodek 9y ago
What happens to a person that he or she will hurt a nation of people, against his or her job description, for what? ... a few dollars? I think my empathy skills are good, but I struggle to understand Ajit Pai. What is redeeming to this cour
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by spodek 9y ago
Eben Moglen's FreedomBox project -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox -- is more democratic. It would enable social media functionality without privately-owned central servers. It needs work, but what part
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by spodek 9y ago
The title normalizes inactivity, which I prefer to consider normal, making exercise abnormal. Everyone is free to define normal for him or herself, but I'd normalize activity and say lack of exercise atrophies the brain. Logically the
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by spodek 9y ago
Does http://sidcha.com help?
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by spodek 9y ago
I prefer chalkboards so much more. Reason #1: You can tell how much chalk is left. Reason #2: Not filling up landfills with plastic.
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> Rob DeSalle is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City Nothing against the author, but when I see "Sackler," I think of that family&

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