How big is your footprint on the Earth?

[Anonymouse]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

Today I drove my SUV and burned alot of fuel. Yaaay.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

Today I drove my SUV and burned alot of fuel. Yaaay.

I hope it runs over your big foot.

[Anonymouse]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

I hope it runs over your big foot.

Aside from a big foot, I also have a big toe, in fact, a great toe!

[TomServo]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

You're both sons of bytches.

[Anonymouse]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

You're both sons of bytches.

Are you angry that you don't have an avatar? Be quiet or your footprint will anger the Anahita.

[Anahita]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

Today I drove my SUV and burned alot of fuel. Yaaay.

Actually, I drove my Jeep a bit today, too. I saw a couple of guys in a red Jeep while I was on my way to the music store. I came home to pick out the saplings that I'll transplant to offset at least the carbon. I'm not sure if they think about that sort of thing yet, but I'm sure they will.


(maybe minus the "barbie")

Little Steven's show is on the radio now (and will be replayed in 2 hours). What's with Eva? Hmmm... I'll find out. I so want to surf (real ocean surfing--not internet surfing) again.

http://www.madison.com/mmm/

[Anahita]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

Jesus is pissed off about what Christianity has become! Jesus, for example, works very hard to protect wild nature. He 'retired/resigned.'

I am not a Christian, nor is JESUS.

[Anahita]

Re: The Ankap Thread

When you did the google image search for 'tree hugger,' for my new avatar might have also seen the image of Glen... http://forests.org/images/gbarry-tree-hugger-lg.jpg

He is a great guy. He has a PhD and lives off charitable donations for his non-profit in order to protect the Earth. He started and runs the Ecological Internet. If you've got a few extra bucks, even a small donation to him would be a help for all he does.

The Ecological Internet (his work) includes:

EcoEarth.Info -- http://www.EcoEarth.Info/
Climate Ark -- http://www.climateark.org/
Forests.org -- http://forests.org/
Water Conserve -- http://www.waterconserve.org
Rainforest Portal -- http://www.rainforestportal.org/
Ocean Conserve -- http://www.oceanconserve.org/

[loseyourname]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

By comparison, the average for Sonoma County [CALIFORNIA] residents is 22 acres. http://www.sustainablesonoma.org/key...footprint.html

Whatever. I live in Sonoma County and I scored a 9.

As long as we keep Africans, Southeast Asians, and South Americans in poverty, without access to large vehicles, processed food, electricity, and running water, we'll be fine. Their footprint has to be damn close to 0.

[Anahita]

Re: How big is your footprint on the Earth?

As long as we keep Africans, Southeast Asians, and South Americans in poverty, without access to large vehicles, processed food, electricity, and running water, we'll be fine. Their footprint has to be damn close to 0.

I would say that a bit different, but the point is similar. (This is to everyone, your post is a good point to start from...) This is a simplistic analysis for our purposes. Right now, there are corporations with grand dreams of everybody having an industrial lifestyle--cars, air conditioning, etc. They are trying to do that. That is a BAD idea--even for those who might get that. In that process, millions of people die (most where that is 'imposed.') I can later explain some of that process, too.

The industrial lifestyle isn’t sustainable as it is, even for those who have it. Rich derive/d wealth off of extraction from the rest without. [THEY all take 'from me.'] Those have an absolute obligation—without question—to at very least provide basic sustenance like: food, basic medical care, basic education, and many other basic human needs—and the means for people to provide for their own (not just handing out a dependency check, but giving people the real means to provide their own food security). Right now, the ‘right wing’ is doing the exact opposite of that. That is horrible.

Take a family in India who is adequately feeding the family—yet in need of some aid for education and basic medical care. Then, they are forced (economically--based on foreign policy) to leave a sustainable lifestyle and ‘work a job’ for a company in order to buy food (that is often Monstanto GMO deadly food, too)… etc.

Tiny family farmers (with land security) who grow food to feed themselves or themselves and a few other families take care of land. They keep watershed forests. They know that chemicals kill the insects that naturally pollinate the plants. Giant predatory corporations will clear every inch, drain it of ‘capital’ and move on to other land.

Light electricity is possible for all (with wind power.) Solar ovens are something everyone could have for cooking and water purifications, for example. Basic (NEED) medical care and prevention of disease is an absolute HUMAN RIGHT.