tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441522.post9192095796649827284..comments2007-12-04T22:13:51.739-08:00Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08864034317167670223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441522.post-53086533308436165172007-12-04T22:13:00.000-08:002007-12-04T22:13:00.000-08:00...I'm ready! Give it to us straight!Urban Barbarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02517999966269612656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441522.post-58085185591945724202007-12-03T09:26:00.000-08:002007-12-03T09:26:00.000-08:00Norm's comments are actually the topic for my next blog. So get ready to be depressed.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08864034317167670223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441522.post-58405240729296737752007-12-02T10:00:00.000-08:002007-12-02T10:00:00.000-08:00So I was listening to the first installment in a series on Marketplace called "Consumed" where they look at the consumer economy. They visited this family who was super, super eco friendlly -- the dad took 3 hours to commute to work so he could use mass transit. The mom walked down the street to her teaching job. The family of four lived in a 1000sqf house so that it would cost less to heat and cool. They composted. They recycled. They cooked organic meals at home. They set the thermastat to 69 and wore sweaters. They did a TON of shit that I will probably never do. At the end of the story Kai Rizdal measured the amount of resources the human race would need to sustain itself if everyone on the planet lived like this family. The answer? We would need two and a half Earths. So if we all conserved and srimped and saved and used out own shit to fertilize the garden where we grew our own food -- we'd still be consuming too much to sustain ourselves. So then I thought, well, shit, at least I'll be dead by the time the planet goes all Thunderdome. But then they brought this guy on who basically said we could run out of resources, FUCKING RUN OUT, in as little as thirty years -- and get this -- India and China (the majority of the world's population), their consumer economies are just now coming on line....<BR/><BR/>We are so fucked.Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761036220893488857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441522.post-37114452069417402222007-12-02T09:44:00.000-08:002007-12-02T09:44:00.000-08:00Steve,<BR/><BR/>Great article -- intelligently presented, and sound reason. So sad that so many people still reflexively think that any cost to big business is anti-American or even anti-profits. Sometimes you gotta pay to play...greebshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10945022888968961800noreply@blogger.com