tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post8645910275149537398..comments2024-03-28T03:10:51.807-05:00Comments on Julia Sweeney: Julia Sweeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02459682985438227986noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-41318707929252651432012-05-19T12:11:55.966-05:002012-05-19T12:11:55.966-05:00I found a great deal of helpful information above!...I found a great deal of helpful information above!mbiencegrouphttp://www.mbiencegroup.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-74729166174692968782011-05-10T03:40:51.411-05:002011-05-10T03:40:51.411-05:00you get to go to TED? I'm super dooper jealous...you get to go to TED? I'm super dooper jealous...Have fun! and think happy thoughts!coach outlethttp://www.coachmarker.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-51328471399288564692009-10-23T10:36:25.417-05:002009-10-23T10:36:25.417-05:00If you haven't already, you'll be hitting ...If you haven't already, you'll be hitting Stewart's controversial views on nuclear power. He was also nice enough to endorse my novel on nuclear that provides an insider's perspective of the good and the bad. "Rad Decision" is available free online at <a href="http://raddecision.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">RadDecision.blogspot.com</a> and is also in paperback online. Coverage of this issue has been limited to pundits, academics, advocates and journalists - which is a bit like reporting on a war without talking to the soldiers. My book is meant to rectify that while being an entertaining read. (See the homepage reviews.) It has zero corporate sponsorship and I get zero royalties.<br /><br />On the War thing - I see a lot of parallels between the past, when this little chief or king attacked someone nearby, and the present - when this little CEO isn't content running a nice business and starts taking big risks to make things more interesting. Just boys being boys, for the most part. Another reason the glass ceiling sucks.James Aachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08762006792617588325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-75345068456569569872009-10-22T15:56:55.277-05:002009-10-22T15:56:55.277-05:00Yeah, I'm thinkin' we're too far '...Yeah, I'm thinkin' we're too far 'round the bend to make any significant difference at this point, so I just hang on to the ol' v-6 Ford Explorer. I really don't go anywhere tho so only have to fill it up like once a month. I was watching the British 1960 version of "HG Wells Time Machine" recently. The movie starts in 1900. EVERY TIME he would stop the time machine; in the teens, the fortys, the fifties, people were at war. He'd be so amazed by whatever new technology there was at that time and run up to people like, "Good GOD man! Can you BELIEVE how LUCKY we are to have come so FAR!?" And everyone would respond the same; "What? Whatever! You're nuts! I'm busy doing something IMPORTANT! Fighting in a war!" Finally, thousands of years later he ends up in what appears to be Nirvana. Hardly any people left, but everyone there is blond and blue-eyed (like Children of the Corn). Sitting alongside a river idly chatting and laughing. A girl who evidently can't swim goes drifting by, screaming "help me!" and maybe a few turn to see what's causing the noise, but NO ONE thinks to get up and help her. The star of the movie yells, "Isn't any one of you going to get up and help her?" and they were like, "Um. Why?" That complete apathy that I see in so many 'fellow citizens' today scares me more than worrying about the future. (shudder). So...yeah! You may want to add that movie to your 'uplifting' list. :-)jen duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13958846152696432140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-30215030164058638932009-10-22T13:01:47.579-05:002009-10-22T13:01:47.579-05:00I really want to read that book. Thanks for the r...I really want to read that book. Thanks for the recommendation, Julia.<br /><br />A friend of mine used to lecture me on the looming de-industrialization of society. Like our time is a brief, luxurious fluke that will burn out eventually. <br /><br />I need to educate myself a bit. The vegans say meat eating is wasteful. The primal eaters say mono-cropping is destroying the soil. Makes me feel guilty to eat anything. And don't even get my buddy started on the depletion of water sources from indoor plumbing. ( *shrug* I'd get arrested if I used the grass outside like my doggies do :)<br /><br />Maybe local poly farming, plus the reestablishing of grass fed herds will become the norm. Sure would be healthier for people and the earth! Out houses? eeeww.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-34725121683462052362009-10-22T09:03:48.991-05:002009-10-22T09:03:48.991-05:00As a take-my-own-bags to the grocery store, recycl...As a take-my-own-bags to the grocery store, recycling, CFC-using, green-thinking, Prius driver, I like to think that if each one of us does everything we can, it isn't too late. And certainly the warnings in books like that are meant to make us extremists, not defeatists, yes?<br /><br />Will you and Jill be performing at TED? I am very jealous.<br /><br />: ) PPetrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644395385612078883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-67464708556513718982009-10-22T07:32:26.888-05:002009-10-22T07:32:26.888-05:00Well, I continued to read the book tonight and in ...Well, I continued to read the book tonight and in terms of population, it seems to be naturally leveling off just like Woozle here says. Much of this, apparently is part of the move to cities, the urbanization of people. In cities, children are luxuries compared with the country. I had never made that particular connection before. Anyway, I agree Woozle, it's true too, we need to be more sane! We need an outbreak of sanity!Julia Sweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02459682985438227986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-62203445510163104032009-10-22T06:20:57.848-05:002009-10-22T06:20:57.848-05:00Thinking of the current relative state of peace as...Thinking of the current relative state of peace as a "pocket of time" is, it seems to me, a mistake. Unless there are other reasons we might revert to an earlier state of combativeness, then all we have to do is <i>make sure we don't run out of resources, ever</i> -- which is the very core of the (liberal) "sustainability" movement.<br /><br />Also, I need to find the link for this, but my understanding is that the birth rate is currently decelerating, and the world population is expected to plateau sometime around 2050, then go down a little. If we can survive until then, it seems to me we then have the opportunity to reduce it still further (by natural attrition!) until we get to a level we like.<br /><br />Certainly that won't be easy, but there are many untapped tools which could help us get there. For example, an encouraging thing I <a href="http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A403155" rel="nofollow">read the other day</a>: organically-raised food has about 80% of the yield of conventionally grown food. Okay, so that makes organic sound like a waste of land in an increasingly-crowded world -- but when you look at the zillions of dollars of research and equipment that go into conventional food and remember that most organic food is "done on a shoestring", it seems clear that organic could easily surpass the overall yield of conventional. And that's not even getting into the economic gains of having more stuff grown locally so it doesn't travel as far (fresher, less fuel...).<br /><br />That's just an example essentially at random. The point is that we <i>do</i> have tools for solving the problem; what is desperately needed is for civilization to become more sane -- for the processes by which we make important decisions (laws, wars...) to be more based on rationality than on political expedience.<br /><br />There are people working on that, too. The creation of the blogosphere is helping a great deal, but there needs to be better organization.<br /><br />Ok, done rambling...Woozlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948248776908775080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16654170.post-51567779439737397612009-10-21T21:04:45.970-05:002009-10-21T21:04:45.970-05:00you get to go to TED? I'm super dooper jealous...you get to go to TED? I'm super dooper jealous...Have fun! and think happy thoughts!Kaleenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16592417119719913439noreply@blogger.com