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Posted By Eagle_Eye 1 year, 9 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThe environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack-concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. share your story read stories Teresa Heinz Kerry and John Kerry describe how these issues unite people across ideological, geographic, and cultural lin
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lfergie8121 year, 9 months ago
Jon Stewart asked Kerry if he was a little kidding way if he was peeved at Gore beating him to the punch. LOL
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 9 months ago
Me To!! In fact it will be on again in a few minutes. I love the Daily Show and Colbert Report, best news source ever!
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not2needy1 year, 9 months ago
Thanks EE, You are on a roll now!
Whether it's due to human interference or if it's just the normal evolution of the earth, anything we can do to preserve our environment is worth the effort.
For people to just sit complacently and avow that there is nothing that we are doing that is harming the environment, therefore there is nothing we can do to stop the natural course of the earth's changes is out of my realm of understanding.
But of course the fact that Kerry had something to say on the issue will become the focal point for many on this, SAD!
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not2needy1 year, 9 months ago
That's true, but it's going to take more than the two of them, it's going to take a whole planet! Wow, that's a huge undertaking!
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amazed1 year, 9 months ago
I agree that the environment should be a concern to all. But to say, "now more than ever....". If you look around, things have been cleaned up considerably since I was a kid. The air is cleaner, the rivers are cleaner (often just plain clean) the great lakes have been cleaned up, Long Island Sound is now clean.
Great improvements have been made since the first Earth Day in 1970, but too here many of these environmental advocates tell it, you would think that we are stewing in more filth than ever.
When was the last time you heard of a river catching on fire?
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 9 months ago
I agree with much of what you are saying, but the fact remains to trade carbon credits to those who keep polluting is not the way to go.
For the last 6 years the current administration has their apointies in the EPA who have been silently undoing many things we haven't seen in the media.
We have made great strides but it is not enough yet to effect change. Personally I feel it is to late in many cases and within the next decade we are going to see many more species go extinct.
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amazed1 year, 9 months ago
If you think that change has not yet been effected, you must be very young. As far as this administration undoing stuff -- many of the EPA regulation are not only ineffective, but onerous.
Cradle-to-grave liability. If I dispose of my hazardous waste with a licensed company and follow all the rules, and this licensed company does something wrong with my waste -- it still comes back to me.
If I follow all the rules in effect today and the rules are changed tomorrow, I not only am responsible for any cleanup, I can be fined large amounts -- although I did nothing wrong and followed the gov't's rule -- see MTBE additive to gas. The refineries fought putting it in gas, gov't said you must. Turns out it's really bad and now the liability, including some superfund fines, are back to the companies that didn't want to use it in the first place.
Thanks to the EPA, for all practical purposes, I can never sell my commercial property.
It's overboard.
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4cprocess1 year, 9 months ago
I agree with your statement about the carbon credits. This will only allow the "elite" to continue to pollute.
As far as saving species from going extinct, I respectfully disagree because as I see it, the only way to bring the natural selection process back to normal levels is to stop the advancement and reproduction of the human species. The reason I say this is because I believe that it's the #1 contributing factor. Population control is more of a socialist idea isn't it? I believe that would be a hard sell in a "freedom" based society such as ours.
In God We Trust
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amazed1 year, 9 months ago
we need to continue what we're doing. As far as doing more, it needs to be cost effective. If you say to the power companies you need to put all these new technology scrubbers on your stacks. It will cost you about $1 million per scrubber, but it will clean up your emissions by an additional 2% -- and will result in a 15 cents per KW hour charge to your customers. That's probably not a good idea == the cost-benefit ratio is not good. But if you can get scrubbers that will cost the $1mm per scrubber, increase the cost 15 cents per KW hour and it will result in a 25% or 40% decrease in emissions -- that's probably a good idea --UNLESS the current scrubbers are working efficiently enough that even a 40% decrease in emissions is pretty neglibible in absolute weight.
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eugenegerard1 year, 9 months ago
The Bush administration has done its best to dismantle regulatory effects in every level of government. It is going to take years to fix the damage these plunderers have done. They've got corporate shills in every niche of enforcement. Their only concern is for big business not to be responsible for anything but making money.
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bruhaha1 year, 9 months ago
You mean putting industry lobbyists and cronies at the heads of every level of government, changing reports on the environment and science to reflect the administration view that everything is peachy, cutting funding for enforcement of environmental laws....
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CovalentBond1 year, 9 months ago
You know I don't buy man caused global warming. I think it is a natural cycle that like all natural cycles should not be interfered with.
However with the N.Y.Times hit piece on Al Gore soft though it was, some interesting reading in the paper over the weekend. Regarding some countries staking claims over thawing islands in the north. It was an AP story titled: As ice melts, Arctic land disputes come to a boil. It's a long and interesting read.
((The U. S. Geological Survey estimates the arctic has as much as 25 percent of the worlds undiscovered oil and gas.))
My take is as India, China, and other countries modernize there is a profit to be made. Selling oil.
I personally believe the man caused global warming theory is about to become road kill. It's in the way.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories. But good old fashioned greed, well you figure it out.
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CovalentBond1 year, 9 months ago
As I said I don't buy the man caused global warming theory. But I really do believe we need to wean ourselves of our oil dependency. And if they keep finding oil that just won't happened.
Ethanol still puts carbon in the air. Raises the price of corn. The poor will riot. Put a few pictures of starving third world kids in the news. Throw in a few other factors. And we will be told that for now we'll have to back to oil. nice and neat.
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ETproductions1 year, 9 months ago
The question isn't really about any one person and whether you personally like them or not. The question is, are we able to burn over 7 trillion tons of fossil fuels a year, destroy the remaining rain forests with slash-and-burn farming techniques, over-fish the oceans and constantly encroach on wildlife habitat without any adverse impact to us.
By now, the answer is a pretty obvious NO! And shooting the messenger won't change that one bit,
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KingOfTruth1 year, 9 months ago
Good what are you doing personally to stop other countries from burning fossil fuels, destroying the remaining rain forests with slash-and-burn farming techniques, over-fishing the oceans and constantly encroaching on wildlife habitat..... we have massively curtailed much of that here in the US to the point that the fishing fleets in San Diego and elsewhere are almost gone, we are using many other methods to generate energy, we are not destroying any rain forests in the US, and we have restored or preserved huge chunks of the US for wildlife habitat....we only live on or farm or otherwise use 5% of the US land.....
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ETproductions1 year, 9 months ago
You're right. There isn't a whole lot I can personally.
I religiously recycle paper, glass, tin cans and plastics. I have replaced all the incandescent light bulbs in our house with low-energy, longer lasting fluorescents. I have a car, but being I live in Boston I mostly use the MBTA. I make one run every two weeks to Costco to shop. So I put well under 1,000 miles on the car each year.
Aside from those minimal changes, I can't do much except to raise my voice with others to call for sane environmental policy worldwide. Perhaps if enough of us do that we can collectively find ways to lead poor slash-and-burn farmers to better farming methods. Maybe we can place International limits on drag-net fishing and move more toward fish farming while letting the open oceans recover.
The way we WON'T fix the environment is by immediately criticizing anyone who speaks in favor of fixing it.
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Amazing11 year, 9 months ago
The more people concerned with the environment the better. Clean air and water are never bad things. Whatever the reason for the release of this book, I do like that it points out the efforts of a disparate group of people from many parts of the earth.
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4cprocess1 year, 9 months ago
I may be off base here but what I see and read between the muttled lines here is this...
If the Kerry's want to do something positive for the environment, and I mean really "do" something, then provide or make this book available online. That's what really gets me so ******ed about these so called environmentalist! If they only knew the amount of natural resources that it takes to "print" a book and not only that it's also the amount of man made chemicals involved int the production also. Such as inks, toner, plates (must be produced with vigin aluminum), glues, plastics, solvents ect.
Oh but then they would have nothing to sell. Anyone ever thought that maybe money might come into play here?
In God We Trust
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4cprocess1 year, 9 months ago
I've been in the printing industry (once the world's #6 industry) for over 30 yrs. My grandfather started a printing company during the depression so I have grown up around it. I have seen many changes over the years as far as "responsible environmental stewardship" goes such as recycling and such. But a lot still hasn't changed except that most of this industry is going overseas because there are less restrictive environmental laws and with the advent of computers and the internet this once great industry has fallen to somewhere in the 20-25th ranking among industry as a whole.
The one thing that has troubled me the worst throughout all this latest (technological advance) is that with the digital revolution I have witnessed the greatest wake of hardware disposal (old computers, monitors, analog equipment, scanners, cameras ect.) than I can recall since my childhood. The main reason being....
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4cprocess1 year, 9 months ago
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GREED. Pure and simple. Software manufacturers constantly upgrading software. Computer manufacturers constantly upgrading computers and so on and so forth. And I not just talking in terms of years but only months. So if anyone here want's to support true environmentalism then push all the "book" promoters to go digital. This may mean the end of my own livelihood but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Are they?
In God We Trust
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4cprocess1 year, 9 months ago
That's true but why couldn't you download the audio version to your MP3 player? LOL
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