Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:23 pm
http://www.thecouchforum.com/comments.php?id=2251
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The economic system we live in today is a marvel of interdependence. Production is given over to efficient and specialized centers which distribute goods in exchange for money.
The most basic goods fundamental to survival are bought and sold, while people go about their lives investing in a types of work which are rewarded with many times the purchasing power needed to satisfy their most basic needs (food, water, shelter, clothing).
The cheapness of food, its quantity and variety, is astounding today when you consider how much work it took for a people to extract calories from the ground before the rise of industrial agriculture.
Wild food resources are vastly more easy to exploit than tilling the ground, waiting months, hoping for good weather, battling pests and all the other unforeseen contingencies that making basic farming really tough. I'm tempted to envision hunting foraging as the primary mode of life under which we acquired our big brains.
Efficient agriculture has major problems, as with all kinds of industrial production. These are externalities: soil erosion, nutrient run off, vast water resources needed, carbon dioxide and methane emission. A popular circulating fact is that it takes 10 calories of fossil fuel input for every 1 edible calorie extracted from the ground by the time it gets to our mouths. The food system is responsible for more green house emissions than our transportation system, and this is likely due to our preference for eating meat.
Shouldn't we try to reform our consumer ways in relation to the true cost of the edible calorie? Does this not apply to any-kind of industry and its resultant consumerism which exploits all kinds of resources unsustainably, including workers?
Why don't we care enough about other human beings to object to their exploitation by our own hands?
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Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:53 am
Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:37 am
lavender orchid wrote:
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it's a real foggy morning with about 30m view ahead. thoughts tend to focus on winter solstice a lot. occupied with body-mind reality and an awareness for different energetic arrangements ....
http://travel.cnn.com/visiting-bhutan-268086
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Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:59 am
Kepler's research was slow to gain widespread traction during his lifetime, but it later served as a key influence on the English mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and his law of gravitational force. Additionally, Kepler did important work in the fields of optics, including demonstrating how the human eye works, and math. He died on November 15, 1630, in Regensberg, Germany. As for Kepler's calculation about the universe's birthday, scientists in the 20th century developed the Big Bang theory, which showed that his calculations were off by about 13.7 billion years
Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:56 pm
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Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:19 pm
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Subject: Re: Quotes of the day Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:57 am
for more cold play, please see .... http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/european-commission-move-away-from-climate-protection-goals-a-943664.html
Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:45 pm
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