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Humans are a very primitive species we do not understanding that without the big self the little self dies or becomes extinct .We are the little self the planet and its systems are the big self .The big self serves us with Oxygen and we pre serve the big self by breathing out C02 . That is we preserve life by simply breathing in the pure oxygen that the lungs of the planet provide and we serve them with exhaling C02.
The problem is we do not understand that the trees have needs , the needs are not as great as humans .But they have to be our top priority or we are FINISHED .
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"Pot is a doorway drug. When you smoke it at home, and walk through a door, you forget why you're there. There's a solution to the problem of short term memory loss. Put a bong in every room, and then you'll know why you're in that room". Tommy Chong
"Transporting data now uses 50% more energy than aviation", and this amount is growing exponentially (from a segment on today's WNYC Brian Lehrer Show). So, if we get rid of the internet, world aviation, the cows, the plastic wrapped around the hay bales for the cows that we won't need anymore, that will give us enough CO2 breathing space to do what Humans love best - BREED exponentially! Time to get with the program!!!
I would imagine that the great loss of life in the cities led to a relaxation of serfdom, so that the cities could be repopulated quickly. Before that, immigration to cities would have been slow.
Great Article. It almost seems like a conspiracy to destroy the planet.....
Don't forget Athens and Rome. Julius Ceaseer was assassinated to preserve the oligarchic control which led to 400-500 years of autocratic control. Julius Ceasser was empathetic to the men in his army and wanted the proper "justice" for them after France. That was the reason he passed over the Rubicon.
Chuckles, Kris Kristofferson in his song 'Me and Bobby McGee' defines freedom as 'nothing left to lose'. What is your definition of Freedom? When you WUL'S are confronted with facts, you try to distort them. I'm not surprised. Let me repeat the residents of Singapore are happy, as the UN report shows. I feel pretty safe in saying I don't think the people of Singapore care what you think.
Alice, you could get a job on Fox 'News'.
Oh come on people... PROFITS are EVERYTHING! Long as the Almighty Oligarchs can make their tidy profits, who the hell cares about rainforests anyway? And who needs clean air and water? You liberals have your priorities all screwed up. It's a New World Order now. Time to get with the program!!! Rainforests and oceans and clean air are for sissies, tree huggers and New Agers.
leighmf -- I love the details. Thanks.
Ou812 -- I forgot to mention I have been to Singapore a couple of times. Somehow it seemed like a police state to me.
Ou812 -- I do not see anything about freedom in your list.
Dont' forget 50% of the CO-2 carbon converted to oxygen we breathe comes from plankton on ocean's surface. These critters are begining to suffer due to increased ocean acidity and unable to form their shells. Every other breath of air you inhale is the product of ocean plankton.
Mark S -- I forgot to mention that it almost took a hundred years for this iron law of labor to work through the economy. I need to mention that I really do not know much. I just listen to almost every minute of Thom on podcast. I am presenting my interpretation of what he says.
Mark S -- The plague reduced the labor force. Innovation helped make up for some of the loss. Also part of the effect was to increase the aggregate demand. Innovation usually requires a concentration of the populace (AKA a city).
LysanderSpooner -- You should read "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkerson. There is also a TED talking floating around by him. Economic inequality is the most wrong thing per se. By that I mean, it is the most correlative metric to the ills of society.
Free markets always fail. Free markets reduce the ability of people to start their own businesses. For example, try to start a office supply store with Staples and Office Depot in the neighborhood. When Walmart moves into an area, 5 years later there are 137 fewer businesses on average. Walmart and Staples are on their way to becoming the feudal lords.
Reagan raised tax rates on the middle class and lowered them on the rich.
How can you say reagan was a protectionist when the rate of our trade deficit increased dramatically during his terms in office.
I, personally, have never heard or see how it can be the plague that caused the rise of cities. If anything, it seems to me, plague would cause people to flee cities, as densely populated areas would be centers for epidemics.
PFNelkak -- There is a way. Repeal reagonomics. Especially, the part of reagonomics enacted in 1998 (?). That is, the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act.
Mark S -- You forgot to point out the cause of the rise of cities and the middle class. Thom has said it was the plague which wiped out much of the labor force. I prefer labor unions to provide power to labor, not a plague.
The Chief should be fired, and replaced as well.
wonderful written now is the time to heal the planet hopefully its not to late. thanks thom
Oh, yeah. I didn't put it together that he was talking about getting back from the Blue State Ball and having Ian Millhiser on. I must have missed a chunk of the show that day.
It's from day before yesterday if it's the same show as the first hour. He's saying Bi Bi Netahnyahu is speaking to Congress "tomorrow".
Comment for 3/5/2015: Have we gone into a rerun? I'm hearing Thom talk about protests being forbidden outside the Supreme Court again.
oneworldatpeace, the rich today are, in fact, the bourgeouisie, the merchant class that was the middle class in feudal times but became the ruling class when it overthrew the feudal aristocracy, and it remains so today. Like almost every successful revolutionary movement, however, their revolutionary ideals, the liberal democratic reforms they felt so strongly about during and just after their revolutions aren't such a priority for them anymore after they've ceased to be the insurgency and been the ruling class for a while.