"Of the world’s 100 largest economic units, 51 are corporations and 49 are countries" (Czech 2008)

I just offset the carbon from my car and my home for the year 2011, by buying credits from here. Good feelings all around. :)

In other news, I've been neglecting email and LJ responses, but I promise to get back to you soon.

Warren S. Thompson, writing in 1935 on The Optimum Population: " I rebel at being considered merely part of a producing organism, a fighting organism, or a breeding organism. Such treatment is not consistent with human dignity"
pg. 198, in the commentary section of a 1976 publication of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population

"We can't wait for the storm to blow over, we must learn to work in the rain"

Quotes from Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict, by Schnaiberg and Gould, 1994 ( Read more... )

Form Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, by Mark Dowie (1995 ( Read more... )

This quote links back to an earlier discussion I had with lyght:

"Most of the 'services' living systems provide cannot be duplicated by people and thus in effect cannot be monetized. They are irreplaceable necessities; money cannot remedy damage to them."
In From Apocalypse to Way of Life by F. Buell, 2004.

I took a bus to Chicago to visit family for Thanksgiving instead of a plane, partially because I'm sick of planes and pissed off at the TSA, and partially to get a giant load of work done. When I'm stuck on a bus with nothing but work to do, I'm highly productive! So here are quotes from 2 books that I read and took notes on during the trip ( Read more... )

"The Greenpeace people are multinational media professionals." (pg. 45)

"Greenpeace is also a smithy turning out political symbols." (pg. 46)

There are a lot of reasons why I don't like World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck (1999) - phrases such as "politics of politics", "whenever expert rationalities come into contradiction, there are indicators of institutionally constructivistic 'objectivity' of the hazard indicators" (pg. 129, and without explanation of the terms used), the fact that ( Read more... )