[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', ' ')Advertising consumption is loss of resources anyway.

[SolarDave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', ' ')Advertising consumption is loss of resources anyway.

[LoneSnark]

^^ Well, there goes open-air television. I guess the poor really didn't deserve entertainment anyway, wastes resources I hear.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e advertise what we have (commercially) rather than what we want/need

[Waterthrush]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t seems to me, just to be fair to the rest of the world we should be using 1/5 of the resources we're currently using in the US. But even then it would not be sustainable, so, our goals should be even less than that.

[DavidFolks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'N')o more disposable containers of any kind. This includes grocery store containers for mustard, mayo, etc.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'N')o more disposable containers of any kind. This includes grocery store containers for mustard, mayo, etc.

[DavidFolks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'N')o more disposable containers of any kind. This includes grocery store containers for mustard, mayo, etc.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', ' ')I don't think you have a grasp of the scale of disruption these changes would cause. Or the cost to the economy.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', ' ')How about the increased cost to ship?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', ' ')Advertising consumption is loss of resources anyway.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', '
')As long as we're looking at pie in the sky responses to peak oil, I have a single change that would change the entire world paradigm of consumption.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', ' ')How will you get this ban promoted and enforced?

[Nicholai]

WARNING, some viewers my find this disturbing!
Taken from an exceprt of George Monbiot's blog.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the new summary published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), you will find a table which links different cuts to likely temperatures(6). To prevent global warming from eventually exceeding 2°, it suggests, by 2050 the world needs to cut its emissions to roughly 15% of the volume in 2000.

I looked up the global figures for carbon dioxide production in 2000(7) and divided it by the current population(8). This gives a baseline figure of 3.58 tonnes of CO2 per person. An 85% cut means that (if the population remains constant) the global output per head should be reduced to 0.537t by 2050. The UK currently produces 9.6 tonnes per head and the US 23.6t(9,10). Reducing these figures to 0.537t means a 94.4% cut in the UK and a 97.7% cut in the US. But the world population will rise in the same period. If we assume a population of 9bn in 2050(11), the cuts rise to 95.9% in the UK and 98.3% in the US.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '[')

In other words, a Manhattan project for a paradigm shift in our thinking about the world around us.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'g')et oil producing countries to disclose actual reserves so we can plan in accordance.

[LoneSnark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow are you promoting and implementing this "Manhattan Project"? Who are you working with to promote and implement it?

[DavidFolks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', '
')As long as we're looking at pie in the sky responses to peak oil, I have a single change that would change the entire world paradigm of consumption.

[Ludi]

What methods and pathways to education do you plan to implement to further these proposals? How do you see us "educating people" or how are you yourself educating people?


I'm trying to get this as specific and as less-vague as possible.


Thanks.

[Iaato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidFolks', 'A')s long as we're looking at pie in the sky responses to peak oil, I have a single change that would change the entire world paradigm of consumption.

All it would require is that every nation on earth adopt a single currency, the watt.

Everything would be priced by the total embodied energy to produce it. People would be paid by the total energy they expend, or save.

This single change would affect everything, and shift us to an energy sustainable paradigm.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hat methods and pathways to education do you plan to implement to further these proposals? How do you see us "educating people" or how are you yourself educating people?


I'm trying to get this as specific and as less-vague as possible.