If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
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Looking at all the data in the graphs seems to show that we have very little to worry about.
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Over the past 100 years, we've had less than a degree of variation in the temperature. Expand the graph to take in the past 5,000 years, and you will see that the Earth has done far more than this in the past. This is why the link between human activity and change in global temperatures is so weak.
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If people want drastic changes in economies, they are going to have to explain how the benefits outweigh the costs. In other words, compare the economic impact on people's lives (jobs being lost, higher cost of living) to the benefits (the decrease in temperature).
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We need goals, measured not in a decrease CO2 emissions, but in benefits to earth.
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Big business, on the other hand, are extremely familiar with the concept of making short term sacrifices for long term benefits.
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This may be done through oil getting more expensive (for example, if we were to run out of oil), or from other methods becoming cheaper (such as a viable fuel cell, or nuclear fusion).
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Although alarmists have been predicting that we will run out of oil for decades now, I am beginning to suspect that this may not be the case. We know now that oil may not in fact be a limited resource, but may be created naturally under the ground. If so, this may explain why our reserves have lasted so much longer than we've thought they should, and why we keep finding new sources.
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Some see pollution as reason to eliminate humans (or certain races) from the earth. I see it as the motivation to advance humanity and make us all better off.
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
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Cow flatulence
It has been estimated that 9 to 12% of the energy that a cow consumes is turned to methane that is released either through flatulence or burping (Radford, 2001). A huge number of factors affect methane emission, including diet, barn conditions and whether the cow is lactating, but an average cow in a barn produce 542 liters of methane a day, and 600 liters when out in a field (Adam, 2000).
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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The other night I hand a dream that in an instant all the oil in the world disappeared, I had to travel home from India to the UK by horse. It was a happy dream.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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I think there is a high probability that as vegetarianism increases, any decrease in emissions from cows , will be off-set by increased emissions from bean eaters.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
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Just read this in the New Scientist: Canada possibly pulling out of Kyoto, or at least asking for "more flexibility", whatever that means (possibly do less now and try and catch up in 20 years time??)
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by: Stone
I think there is a high probability that as vegetarianism increases, any decrease in emissions from cows , will be off-set by increased emissions from bean eaters.
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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I think there is a high probability that as vegetarianism increases, any decrease in emissions from cows , will be off-set by increased emissions from bean eaters.
the major difference it would make would be the reduction the deforestation of the amazon for animal rearing.
the deforestation of the rainforests is a far, far bigger contributor to the levels of carbon in the atmosphere than human created co2 emissions are.
cole. x
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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yeah, instead it would be deforested in order to grow large scale agricultural crops
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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The Arctic used to be a subtropical paradise:
https://apnews.myway.com/article/20060531/D8HUVKSO0.html
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: colemanWritten by: NOn
yeah, instead it would be deforested in order to grow large scale agricultural crops
that suggests you believe that:
[the area that the cows are grazed on] + [the area that the cow feed that they eat is grown on] = [the area required to grow vegetables that could directly replace the cows in the human's food supply]
i'm fully prepared to accept this if you can show that growing human-edible crops takes up nearly twice as much area as the cow-edible crops.
cole. x
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
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