"Green"...WTF?

[pam0284]

Okay, so maybe this belongs on the Craigslist rants n' raves site, but, am I the only one getting tired of this word "green" getting thrown around everywhere? Everyone keeps talking about "green" this and "green energy" that like it's the answer to the world's problems. Just yesterday I was watching the news and this reporter says, "If everybody

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[tropicalghoti]

'I mean, there is a LARGE percentage of the world's population that doesn't even have safe food and running water

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[pam0284]

First, I do appreciate that you took the time to respond to specific statements in my blog. I'm not sure what other rants I've raved, but I reserve the right to rant and be obnoxious about something that annoys me if I want to. I’m not the first person to be whiney on livejournal………besides, I enjoy having others take an opposing position, I can learn something

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[tropicalghoti]

I don't think you and i will ever see eye to eye on these issues because I don't think you see connections in the same places I do. I, by the way, am not saying your way of seeing is wrong, I'm saying we see progress, responsibility, and quality of life in completely different ways than one another. Where you see a connection between poor living conditions poor economic/ political conditions (which is absolutely the case) in the third world, I see those factors plus US businesses using it's economic might in an abusive way to ensure that policies made and resources available support their business agenda rather than improve conditions with their business. Incidentally, I was responding to your specific statement about food and water, which has definite and strong connections with our country's waste and agrobusiness. You would be amazed to learn just how connected these things are. Read Micheal Pollen's books, the Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. He is really readable and really thorough. Also, where you equate a growing

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[pam0284]

Oh yeah, it was about the media. It was the Jon Stewart show that set me off. Damn u Jon!!!
Do you ever get the feeling that one organism on this earth can't live well unless another lives...not well? I'm not sure if that makes any sense but I'm not good at putting my thoughts into words. 'Sort of' like the idea of a competitive economy. Like one organism can't succeed unless another fails. Do you think it's the same with humans vs. animals or humans vs. earth? Sometimes thinking about this makes me sad. Do you think it's possible that the quality of life can be good AND continuously improve for all organisms on earth overall?