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Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for the green revolution and understood the misguidance of efficiency as a strategy better than anyone. As a tactic it works under the strategy of managing population, as he said in his acceptance sp
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Not a gamer, but sounds like the makings of a game that might teach some biology too. I wonder how they'd render the fighting.
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> The environment is not an immediate effect. Every Day 10,000 People Die Due To Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/03/10/every-da... WHO reveals 7 m
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> MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE ... Bolsonaro, Johnson, Modi, Trump, Putin, et al. for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can. We
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Nature's resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness underscores how much we have to pollute it to cause so many extinctions, deserts, and wastelands. How much beauty do we have to see or lose to change our values from growth at all
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I saw her speak at West Point about a year and a half ago. In a room including colonels, generals, and cadets, she riveted the audience with humor, stories, wit, and insight. My favorite insight was her sharing her friendship with Scalia. T
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Do I misunderstand their motives or should we remove Huckleberry Finn and Mein Kampf from libraries and school curricula too?
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> hauling millions of bottles around the world I haven't used a bottle of any sort for water for at least ten years. Not everyone has access to safe water, but billions do and billions more would if by not thinking we can fall bac
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Future generations will look at our wanton use of single-use plastic like we look at leaded gasoline or cigarettes and wonder what took us so long to legislate banning poisoning our environment. A bubble barrier moves the plastic around, it
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Nearly everyone says we know what to do, we just lack the will to do it. We lack leadership -- not telling people facts, figures, doom, gloom, and instructions. That's management, which is important, but leadership -- helping people do
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I have a PhD in physics but work on sustainability -- what I consider the most important role for someone who understands nature today. I constantly meet people who are surprised to find that turning on a light in their homes causes fossil
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The opposite of my experience. A couple weeks ago I got as many heirloom tomatoes as I could carry. They were slightly bruised. Most of the time, people buy beets, cauliflower, etc and ask the vendor to keep the leaves or the vendor takes o
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Moreover, they will become disposable and landfills will fill up with them, as I wrote in more depth in another post here.
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Just before this article went up, I had posted to my blog: "Prediction: cars will become disposable" https://joshuaspodek.com/prediction-cars-will-become-disposa... Then I saw this article and followed it up: &qu
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Regarding beverages, things changed a lot when I learned that for most of human existence, after weaning, our ancestors drank only water. I've come to see how I used to look at other beverages as entitled, the result of marketing. I dr
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I posted a video on my blog here: https://joshuaspodek.com/year-emptied-garbage This post explains more: https://joshuaspodek.com/emptying-my-household-garbage-for-t...
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> the focus should've been on producers not consumers on producers AND consumers. They're not exclusive. Producers have deceived, but consumers have been all too happy to suspend skepticism when buying things once the producer
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The Hacker News and geek community is weird. Ask them about reaching Mars or fusion and they say it's inevitable. They're unqualified good results. Suggest we have fewer children for a few generations and consume less and it'
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I'm 49 and for as long as I can remember, every American that knew economics, when talking about France and Japan, would say the nations would fall apart economically soon and would have to reform to market-based approaches -- less soc
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It's not. People used to believe we couldn't go to the moon. They just didn't see other models, or benefited from old models. Even more than economic growth is growth in standard of living, quality of life, health, and other
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Also emails the sender when the receiver downloads it.
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Science works so much better than "thoughts and prayers". I hope we learn to apply it everywhere on the environment, especially conservation.
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Google helping on ethics: the blind leading the blind! Some fun history: I thought the phrase originated with the Christian bible: > "when the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" but Wikipedia https:/&
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What else can this piece be but propaganda? Covered over is not clean. This piece is disgusting. Is it really trying to claim that because it has green plants that it is clean? The author must consider Chernobyl lovely too.
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Two points worth noting: 1. Factory farming breeds viruses -- one of the main reasons people have been saying "when, not if" about pandemics for decades. We happened to get a coronavirus this time, but factory farms will produce a
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I was thinking like a food co-op instead of a regular store or credit union instead of a bank.
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In the short-term, while Uber and Lyft leave the market, any shared-ride service may be better than no shared-ride service, so a replacement may have a low bar for "good enough." Then it can improve over time. Of course, where pos
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The drivers exist. Uber and Lyft are abandoning them, so it seems they have time and incentive to replace the missing service.
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> what compelling reason could be offered that a.) entices drivers b.) entices endusers c.) technically feasible d.) sustainable The big compelling reason seems Uber and Lyft suspending operations while drivers are hurting from a lockd
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What you wrote is why I asked not only about programmers but also entrepreneurs -- people to handle relationships and beyond the tech. Speaking about the right time, Uber and Lyft proposing to leave the market seems like a great time to pra

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