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Old 05-02-2013, 09:20 AM   #791 (permalink)
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A good way to frame the false dichotomy of the environment VS the economy is that the economy is a SUBSET of the environment. The economy is totally and utterly dependent on the environment.

We cannot eat money, and we cannot drink gold, and we cannot breath the GDP.

I live in New England, and the fishermen are mad at the fishing restrictions and the catch limits - as if those are the government being needlessly mean.

We are massively overfishing, and we are poisoning the water with mercury and stupid nitrogen fertilizer etc. etc., and we are causing it to be more acidic, and we are causing it to be too warm - remember cold water is rich and life giving because it holds more oxygen and more nutrients. And we have spread invasive species of plants and animals that are taking a heavy toll.

And that's just one of the myriad of things that we humans are doing. Factory farming where we pump growth hormones and antibiotics into our food and spray poisons on the crops, and everything is designed for the dump, and oxymoronic "disposable plastic", and genetically modified foods, and we put endocrine disruptors into lots of things - and we force the people who are hurt by all these things to prove that they are hurt; rather than making the people who profit from it prove that they don't hurt anything.

The default mode of business is planned obsolescence, and everything is hard sell, and Bread & Circus is the norm...

Edit: Really useful history of the science of climate change:

The Discovery of Global Warming - A History

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