Consumption, Not Population Is Our Main Environmental Threat

[Peikko 1,575]

At an individual level FP, I may already do more than you for all you know. As it happens, I pretty much cycle to work every day, and not because I can't afford the gas. What do you do?

[Peikko 1,575]

An individual response is not the answer though. If only the hippies reduce consumption (the people who are unlikely to be over consuming in any meaningful way already) then that is hardly going to put a dent in consumption, and without a reduction in populations, we are all headed for the subsistence dust bowl

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

At an individual level FP, I may already do more than you for all you know. As it happens, I pretty much cycle to work every day, and not because I can't afford the gas. What do you do?

Are we going to have a gay off?

The latest event in the VJ Olympiad... who can be gayer? It's Steven "I live in a straw hut" Fancypants vs Madame "Thigh Master" Cleo!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You said a lot but I want to respond to one particular thing - cash crops in Third World Nations. Cash crops have been shown to actually contribute more the poverty of local communities than help them. These crops tend to rape the soil of nutrients, use a tremendous amount of water and leave little good soil for self sustaining crops. There is a movement in this country (USA) to grow more foods locally. Large scale agriculture was sold to us as the most economical way to produce food, but the evidence has show otherwise. What I think is needed is an ever growing awareness that sustainability on a small scale is what this world needs desperately. And it is achievable. That isn't to say that all importation and exportation will cease, but it's just returning back to a more sensible approach towards locality and sustainability. We've become way too interdependent and in doing so, left a world in perpetual state of extreme volatility.

I agree wholeheartedly that small scale is what is needed. Ever notice that in a recession more people develop their own vegetable patch?

My major intent was to show us that there a whole host of things that every single one of us can be doing to make a difference. One person's contribution is negligible, but a billion's will make a noticeable difference.

To try and feel despair at the overall failure is hard, but it's better than the guilt of not trying at all, right?

Amen and hallelujah!

[Peikko 1,575]

Exactly, it's a meaningless exercise but quite funny all the same.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

At an individual level FP, I may already do more than you for all you know. As it happens, I pretty much cycle to work every day, and not because I can't afford the gas. What do you do?

Are we going to have a gay off?

The latest event in the VJ Olympiad... who can be gayer? It's Steven "I live in a straw hut" Fancypants vs Madame "Thigh Master" Cleo!

She wins.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

To try and feel despair at the overall failure is hard, but it's better than the guilt of not trying at all, right?

Guilt? What guilt?

At an individual level FP, I may already do more than you for all you know. As it happens, I pretty much cycle to work every day, and not because I can't afford the gas. What do you do?

Are we going to have a gay off?

The latest event in the VJ Olympiad... who can be gayer? It's Steven "I live in a straw hut" Fancypants vs Madame "Thigh Master" Cleo!

She wins.

Of course she does. The tender reeds of your straw hut are no match for her superior tone!

[Peikko 1,575]

Well, it's not going to be 'white guilt' in your case, that's for sure

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Did I say tender? I meant limp!

Well, it's not going to be 'white guilt' in your case, that's for sure

No guilt at all. I have enough trouble keeping afloat. The do gooders can kiss my azz.

[Peikko 1,575]

Good for you, live a guilt free life. I am all for that.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

*crumples a soda can and throws it in Steven's yard*

[one...two...tree 2,762]

*crumples a soda can and throws it in Steven's yard*

That'll feed my South American Foster child for one week. Thank you.

[GaryC 7]

*crumples a soda can and throws it in Steven's yard*

That'll feed my South American Foster child for one week. Thank you.

Jeez, why would you change your name to a character in a 60's Peter Sellers movie? Oh what...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Oh that's Fancypants? Just when you thought the gaywad couldn't get any gayer.................

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh that's Fancypants? Just when you thought the gaywad couldn't get any gayer.................

Prepare to die for your insolence.

Edited April 15, 2009 by Col. 'Bat' Guano