Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Nevada Sagebrush - » Cyclist culture wastes time and hurts others
I’m sick of hearing bikers proselytize their hobby like it’s a religion. ...when a new “cause” becomes cool, bikes will be left curbside like Christmas trees.
Amazon.com: A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming: Sallie McFague: Books
Climate change promises monumental changes to human and other planetary life in the next generations. Yet government, business, and individuals have been largely in denial of the possibility that global warming may put our species on the road to extinction. Further, says Sallie McFague, we have failed to see the real root of our behavioral troubles in an economic model that actually reflects distorted religious views of the person. At its heart, she maintains, global warming occurs because we lack an appropriate understanding of ourselves as inextricably bound to the planet and its systems.
Vermont Tiger: Carbon Cop Out
Enviros can harmlessly amuse themselves by prancing around the state house lawn in polar bear suits, but this is serious business. Vermonters, whose state gave Barack Obama such a huge margin of victory, might want to suggest to the new President that this economy-wrecking madness ought to be thrown out along with other unpopular policies of the departing Bush administration.

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