HOW ABOUT CUTTING BACK ON EMISSIONS AND GARBAGE PRODUCTION?

YOU MAY BE OVERLOOKING HOW MUCH GLOBAL WARMING GAS POLLUTION COULD BE ELIMINATED BY YOU, BY  CONSUMING LESS FUEL. 

IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES WHICH CUT DOWN ON WASTE COULD CUT GARBAGE PRODUCTION WHICH IS FILLING OUR LANDFILLS. REMOVE ORGANIC MATERIAL FROM THE GARBAGE  THE LESS BIOMASS THAT ENDS UP IN THE LANDFILL THE LESS METHANE IS PRODUCED. 

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ANYTHING THAT COULD ROT SHOULD BE COMPOSTED INSTEAD OF LANDFILL USE.

PLEASE, EVERYONE, PARTICIPATE.

BOG WATER

THE ONLY SOLUTION TO INFLATION AND THE LOSS OF PURCHASING POWER WHICH ACCOMPANIES IT IS NOT TO INCREASE ANY PORTION OF TOTAL COST BUT TO FIND WAYS TO MAKE GOODS AND SERVICES MORE EFFECTIVE. PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS WOULD HAVE TO WORK AND ACT CONSERVATIONALLY TO DO THIS.

GET SERIOUS ABOUT THE PERIL WE FACE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE.

 

THE ONLY WAY TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE IS TO STOP THE CONSTANT EXPANSION OF THE ECONOMY.

THE EMPHASIS OF GOVERNMENT MUST BE UPON SUSTAINABILITY. THE ONLY WAY I CAN SEE TO DO THIS IS TO KEEP OUR SOCIETY FUNCTIONING WHILE WE CUT BACK ON THE USE OF MATERIALS AND ENERGY. 

EVERY BIT OF ENERGY USED BECOMES MORE GLOBAL WARMING AND THERE IS  ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE EMISSIONS FROM THE PRODUCTION OF ENERGY.

NEARLY EVERYTHING WE MAKE FROM RAW MATERIALS BECOMES GARBAGE.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

THIS IS A RE-POST OF A TWO YEAR OLD BLOG. THE CONCEPT OF DE-GROWTH IS EMERGING IN DISCUSSIONS ON TV.

 

GDP IS NOT THE HOLY GRAIL IT IS MADE OUT TO BE

Sunday, May 16, 2021

THIS WAS THE MEADOW AT OTTER POINT BEFORE IT WAS ADDED TO THE GDP BY STRIPPING THE SOIL, TRUCKING IT OFF AND SELLING THE TOPSOIL.

THIS IS IT "AFTER".

 GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT DELUSION

EVERY BIT OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IS COUNTED UP AND TREASURED AS IF EVERY EXPENDITURE WAS AN EXPRESSION OF REAL WEALTH BEING CREATED EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT SOCIETY. TRUE WEALTH FOR ALL IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM A PROCESS WHICH ACCUMULATES MONEY FOR A PERSON OR CORPORATION BUT BOTH OF THESE AND MANY OTHER TRANSACTIONS ARE COUNTED IN GDP.

THE COST AND THUS THE QUANTIFICATION OF MATERIALS USED OF MANY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES IS A PLUS, ADDING TO GDP.

SOME POLICING AND INCARCERATION IS UNAVOIDABLE BUT A LOT OF THAT ACTIVITY DOES NOT ADD TO REAL WEALTH BUT IT IS COUNTED AS PART OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT.

A LOT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES ARE NECESSARY BUT MANY ARE NOT NECESSARY AND ARE EXPLOITATIVE AND IN REALITY THEY CREATE A LOSS OF WEALTH AND SERVICES FOR CITIZENS BUT ALL OF THE COSTS ARE COUNTED AS AND JUDGED TO BE A CUMULATIVE VALUE ADDED TO GDP.

THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF A GROWING GDP IS MORE:

ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE

DEPLETION OF RESOURCES

DESTRUCTION OF NATURAL HABITAT

THE DISPLACEMENT OF ANIMALS

THE DISPLACEMENT OF HUMANS

A CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH                IN THE HOLDINGS OF THE RICH

MORE MONEY AND RESOURCES            FOR UNNECESSARY MILITARY EQUIPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE,           AND MILITARY ADVENTURING

AND THEN ALL THAT SHIT GETS ADDED IN TO THE GDP LIKE THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE STARS AND LIKE IT WAS MANNA FROM HEAVEN. 

TIRES THAT WERE CUMULATIVE IN GDP 

ANOTHER MISLEADING STATEMENT FROM THE OPPONENTS OF A LOGICAL SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE.

REPUBLICANS IN THE US "WE HAVE TO BRING DOWN PRICES. OPEN UP ALL THE ENERGY PRODUCTION RESTRICTIONS."

THE NEW ENERGY WILL BE VERY COSTLY. THERE WILL BE EXPLORATION GRANTS FROM THE US GOVERNMENT. THE CREATION OF NEW GAS AND OIL WELLS WILL HAVE TO BEAR COSTS AT TODAY'S HIGHER THAN EVER PRICES.

THE ONLY ANSWER IS TO RESTRICT CONSUMPTION OF GAS AND OIL AND COAL. BECAUSE THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE COST LESS THAN NEW PRODUCTION FACILITIES WOULD COST, PRESENT DAY PRICES COULD BE REDUCED IF DEMAND FOR FOSSIL FUELS DIMINISHED. THE LESSER CONSUMPTION WOULD BENEFIT OUR ENVIRONMENT WHILE INCREASED PRODUCTION WOULD ADD TO THE CARBON DIOXIDE INDUCED  GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE. 

  

WASTE NO ENERGY.

THE INSULATING BLANKET OF GASSES WHICH  ARE A BY PRODUCT OF ANY COMBUSTION IS HIGHER THAN EVER IN CARBON DIOXIDE GAS, WHICH IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE RETAINER AND RE-RADIATOR OF THE HEAT OF THE EARTH.

KEEP YOUR OLD CLOTHES a blog from LINDON COLLARD

I BOUGHT THESE SHIRTS 33 YEARS AGO. MY AUNT ANNETTE GAVE ME $1000 TO BUY CLOTHES. MY HOUSE WAS BURNED DOWN IN 1980 AND I STILL HAD NO CLOTHES, ONE PAIR OF SHOES AND I ALWAYS DROVE $500 TO $900 CARS. I HAD MY HOUSE WHICH MY HORRIBLE SIBLING FAMILY AND MY WIFE HAD PUT ME INTO DEBT OVER SO I DID NOT REALLY OWN IT. 

THE UPPER SHIRT WAS USED 500 TIMES, WASHED OVER AND OVER,  AND THE LOWER SHIRT ONLY A FEW DOZEN TIMES.

BOTH SHIRTS ARE STILL PERFECTLY SERVICEABLE ALTHOUGH THERE ARE HOLES IN THE HEAVILY USED ONE FROM SNAGGING IT WHILE I WORKED.

I HAVE THE HEAVILY USED ONE ON NOW. I HAVE A NUMBER OF SIMILAR SHIRTS MY SONS WERE DISCARDING. ONLY A FEW OF THEM FEEL AS NICE AS THE COTTON SHIRTS FROM MANY YEARS AGO. THIS SAVES MONEY. IT IS ALSO A VERY GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AS NONE OF MY OLD, STILL IN USE, SHIRTS HAVE ENDED UP IN A LANDFILL.

THE ONLY WAY TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE IS TO STOP THE CONSTANT EXPANSION OF THE ECONOMY.

THE EMPHASIS OF GOVERNMENT MUST BE UPON SUSTAINABILITY. THE ONLY WAY I CAN SEE TO DO THIS IS TO KEEP OUR SOCIETY FUNCTIONING WHILE WE CUT BACK ON THE USE OF MATERIALS AND ENERGY. 

EVERY BIT OF ENERGY USED BECOMES MORE GLOBAL WARMING AND THERE IS  ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE EMISSIONS FROM THE PRODUCTION OF ENERGY.

NEARLY EVERYTHING WE MAKE FROM RAW MATERIALS BECOMES GARBAGE.