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by spodek 5y ago
Calling them tech associates them with inventors and people who want to improve life. The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma is a more accurate association. They purport to help and in some situation they do. We all love cat videos and notes
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Do they circumcise boys without anesthetic under similar pretense?
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The fastest, most effective way to transition from fossil fuels is to limit their supply. Any parent knows you can read all you want about how to raise a child before it's born, but the real learning starts at birth. Within seconds you
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I'll add that my individual action has led through my podcast to working with CEOs, politicians including four of New York City's mayoral candidates, and leaders in sports, arts, and other areas, as well as other podcasts within t
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I'm going with Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson. If British when he started, American when he finished.
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We can dance around our environmental issues all we want, we'll always reach overpopulation and overconsumption driven by cultural beliefs. Until we act on values other than growth, efficiency, comfort, convenience, extraction, and ext
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Exactly. Tragically, people think individual action doesn't achieve anything, but they measure the wrong thing, that one person's impact on one or two actions. Our greatest impact is in leading others, which multiplies. To lead ot
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For reference, humans drank only water after weaning for several hundred thousand years. Today we act like only water is deprivation.
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You left out refined sugar in its many forms. In total deaths and disease as well as cost to society dwarfs everything. The combination of being legal, advertised, and by some measures as addictive as any others is tough to beat.
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The author of the book is Tom Murphy, a Caltech-trained physics professor at UCSD, author of the Do The Math blog https://dothemath.ucsd.edu . The book compiles that blog into a textbook for a course for non-science majors. I&#x2
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The Science Book of the Decade: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet(joshuaspodek.com)
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For documents longer than a page or two, I start with a mindmap. I used to start with an outline, but once I got the hang of mindmaps, I consider them essential software. Amassing and organizing ideas is different than writing and benefits
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Sad that a person who spoke wisely so many times is tarnishing his legacy with such powerful ignorance. It's tempting to say the world is changing outside his horizon, but he has the resources and potential to understand. No one else c
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The refined powder of a plant that gives a jolt of pleasure and leads to craving seems similar whether coming from beet, sugar cane, poppy, or coca leaf. I don't know what drugs should be legal or not, or how regulated, but if any are
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I find this passage from a couple millennia ago most helpful. Other translations may give different nuances. People have struggled to handle death since the first people. --- “Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condole
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A great way to clean our water is to ban what creates the pollution going into it, especially single-use plastic, factory farms, and a lot of packaging. If they want to take baby steps, use proper accounting -- that is, charge manufacturers
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Did his wife consent? She may have, but if she didn't and he publicly vowed monogamy to her, it calls his character into question.
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Can you describe the power imbalance? Within the company, in principle he has authority, but for one thing, he can't act with impunity. He's responsible to the Board and shareholders, so if he promoted, demoted, fired, or otherwis
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For a somewhat contrarian view, most Americans who shop at these places may claim to want authenticity and variety, but probably ignore the authenticity and variety of what local farmers grow. How many buy radishes, turnips, and cabbage fro
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Also watch The Devil We Know, which you can watch free at ThoughtMaybe: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-devil-we-know . The Intercept and New York Times cover the issue well. Robert Bilott's book Exposure https:/&#x2
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Agreed. Plus ". . . in their lifetime" is a pointless affectation.
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Knowing the origin of the word helps choosing and deciding. The hard part isn't figuring out which choice you like more, it's which you're more ready to kill, but most people focus on which they like more. I wrote a series of
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> Society expects five nines Since each increase in uptime costs so much, requires peaker plants, and makes intermittent renewables harder, I experimented with living more resiliently. After all, the reverse works too: each decrease in u
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> I just hope the future finds a way to undo so much of the damage. Future? We can undo it now -- just with life improvements and simplifications, I've dropped my emissions 90%, according to online calculators. I take two years to f
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HCFCs are refrigerants that deplete ozone. They are not made from corn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
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Future generations will see our use of plastic like we see asbestos, HCFCs, and leaded gasoline. Nobody denies its utility. It just kills people and wildlife. Once we ban at least single-use plastic we'll recoil with horror at what we
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Want a great green infrastructure project? Start taking down highways and roads. Don't build new ones or put plastic on old ones. Building roads leads people to adjust and fill them with congestion. People will adjust to fewer roads to
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I recommend James Suzman's recent book Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots , which examines our relationship with work from our evolutionary beginnings to modern day. The interplay of most of our human past f
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I don't think he likes Open Source things. As I understand, he prefers Free software.
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I hope they let the land revert to prairie, forest, swamp, or what was there before.

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