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on A Conversation with Bill McKibben
Right on.
We need to focus on the BIG ISSUE ..... PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE. We need to focus on the COMMON DENOMINATOR to most of the world's problems. That common denominator being Population (Over-Population).
Car makers are not making cars for the fun of it. They are making inexpensive carbon emitting cars because large numbers of PEOPLE want them.
We need leaders to take a bold stand and address this issue. Why are so many leaders blind to the obvious?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on A Conversation with Bill McKibben
But most of people in these "Third World Countries" want to live like Americans.
What is going to happen when every Chinese wants a three car garage, a 2500 square foot house. A Hummer. A refridgerator, A big screen TV. A computer. A hamburger for lunch? A vacation home? Travel by airplanes. Etc. Etc.
Not everybody can live in the WOODS or want to. What would happen if every Chinese and/or American wanted that 10 acre home?
(Even if every Chinese did not want the American way of life. Lets say, half of the Chinese people wanted the American way of life .... thats over 600,000,000 people. Its all in the NUMBERS)
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on A Conversation with Bill McKibben
THE REAL ISSUE IS PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE
The common denominator to most (99%) of the world's problems is Over-Population..... once we address this issue and control it, we can control climate change.
If we can control Over-Population, we can manage or get a handle on most of the world's other problems.... Pollution, Garbage, Air Quality, Disease, Starvation, Poverty, War, Urban Sprawl, Shortages of our Natural Resources, Over Fishing, Etc., Etc.
I admire your work .... but we must ask ourselves how many more people can this earth support today .... tomorrow?
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on Driven to Distraction?
HELLO!!!!! HELLO!!!! CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!!!!
Tow Trucks should be held to this law also..... Especially when they are heavier than the average vehilce. Being heavier, they can be more of a killer than the average vehicle.
Last June 2008, A 21st Century Towing Truck ran a red light on TV Highway and narrowlly missed me. He was so close that I could see the fine print on his side door and I noticed he was on his Cell phone. Had I not been in a habit of looking both ways before proceeding on a green light, I would not be here today.
No.... tow trucks need to be paying attention to the road just as much as anybody else .... Hands free phones work in tow trucks too.
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on From the Conventions: The Parties From Afar
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on Measure 49 - How's that working out for you?
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