" 'There is a very common mind-set right now which holds that all that we’re going to need to do to avert the large-scale planetary catastrophes upon us is make slightly different shopping decisions,' said Alex Steffen, the executive editor of Worldchanging.com, a Web site devoted to sustainability issues."

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    "Believe it or not, nuclear reactors have existed since long before man, and a fossil natural nuclear reactor was recently discovered in Gabon, in Africa. . . . Thus life probably began under conditions of radioactivity far more intense than those which trouble the minds of certain present-day environmentalists. . . . The present dangers are ( Read more... )

Sometimes they print articles that aren't that funny, though they have funny bits in them. This one was too well-written to pass up ( Read more... )

If you've watched the movie Advertising and the End of the World and were confused by the graph showing the curves representing "natural resources" and "production" intersecting in about the year 2070, here's an explanation ( Read more... )

I think the problem with some people who deny that there is an environmental crisis, or that its solution requires any drastic societal change, is that they value freedom too highly ( Read more... )

A Basic Trend

1. According to modern “scale” economics, producing more and selling more results in more profits. As a result, corporations tend to produce as much as they can, as fast as they can.

2. Continuing technological development ensures that the maximum production rate keeps going up.

3. The living natural resources used by corporations to ( Read more... )