03-08-2008, 05:01 AM
What continues to amaze me is that no one addresses the root problem any more: rampant world population growth. Forty years ago one read about Zero Population Growth everywhere. Editorials in small town newspapers were written about it. What the heck happened?
It seems that everyone has adopted the attitudes of the Right -- we need more consumers, we need people to support social security and medicare, we demonize abortion under all circumstances and even other birth control, growth is good. Money sets the tone for all political and environmental discourse at levels where it really matters: at the levels where a difference can be made--the highest levels of power.
I am not talking about any posters on Punaweb per se, just conventional thought in general. So no attacks, please.
Every time a Republican administration enters office, the first thing they do is curtail the availability of birth control of any kind to Third World countries. This has been happening for decades.
Anyone who takes offense to my reference to political orientation: I am only speaking the truth here, thus it should cause no ire. And this subject is nothing, if not political.
Meanwhile I am recylcing, driving seldom, hardly ever taking a plane and use very little energy and have done this all for my entire adult life. In the grand scheme of things don't you sincerely think we need to quit blowing things up in Iraq? And shipping tanks, weapons and personnel across the world? How about factories belching CO2 and contaminants here and in China? How about consumerism?
Help me, Rhonda.
Thanks, Jay, for the clear-cutting orientation. I need to make this fit a desert locale... I did some of it. I wonder how much CO2 a Joshua tree washes.
April
"When the world is winding down, make the best of what's still around." Sting
It seems that everyone has adopted the attitudes of the Right -- we need more consumers, we need people to support social security and medicare, we demonize abortion under all circumstances and even other birth control, growth is good. Money sets the tone for all political and environmental discourse at levels where it really matters: at the levels where a difference can be made--the highest levels of power.
I am not talking about any posters on Punaweb per se, just conventional thought in general. So no attacks, please.
Every time a Republican administration enters office, the first thing they do is curtail the availability of birth control of any kind to Third World countries. This has been happening for decades.
Anyone who takes offense to my reference to political orientation: I am only speaking the truth here, thus it should cause no ire. And this subject is nothing, if not political.
Meanwhile I am recylcing, driving seldom, hardly ever taking a plane and use very little energy and have done this all for my entire adult life. In the grand scheme of things don't you sincerely think we need to quit blowing things up in Iraq? And shipping tanks, weapons and personnel across the world? How about factories belching CO2 and contaminants here and in China? How about consumerism?
Help me, Rhonda.
Thanks, Jay, for the clear-cutting orientation. I need to make this fit a desert locale... I did some of it. I wonder how much CO2 a Joshua tree washes.
April
"When the world is winding down, make the best of what's still around." Sting
april