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- T-Dot is a 31 year old woman in a relationship from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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i am a vegetarian, politically-minded, peace-loving/Bush-despising, medium-grade Star Wars geek (there are many much worse than me). i practice a unique blend of Hinduism, Wicca and Buddhism. i love astronomy, astrology, sociology (self-proclaimed anti-capitalist, Marxist, socialist). i have a keen interest in alternative healing of all kinds, and i practice Reiki, and meditate regularly. ...and i tell the worst jokes ever...
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I love David Suzuki... :)
thestar.com/News/article/283829 [thestar.com/News/article/283829]
From the page:
"In June of 1988, five months before the federal election that year, delegates at the International Conference of the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto agreed that human activity was causing the world's temperatures to rise, and called for a 20 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1988 levels in 15 years...........
Had we acted, by 2003 Canadians would have been reaping savings of tens of billions of dollars, according to a government-sponsored study. The truth is that emissions also have many costs. Savings would have come from reduced health care needs, thanks to people breathing cleaner air. Improved public transportation, had it been funded, would have reduced emissions, energy consumption, traffic accidents, and congestion. Cleaner air even reduces the cost of maintaining buildings. The potential for benefits, from improved efficiency, is considerable. Energy that is not consumed is the cheapest, and cleanest, of all...........
According to the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we can be 90 per cent certain that human activity is responsible for global warming. If we aren't galvanized into action with a 90 per cent certainty, must we demand 100 per cent certainty? Each year, without complaint or question, we pay for insurance against theft, fire and accidents that are far less than 90 per cent certain. Each year, Canadians spend more than $15 billion for defence against threats far less than 90 per cent likely to happen.
We are often told that although we must work toward such targets, we can't jeopardize the economy. But our world is finite and fixed. We can't add any more air, water, land or biodiversity to the earth. Surely the biosphere ought to set the conditions and limits for our activities.
The Canadian economy is booming and government has announced a massive surplus; we can afford to act. What more do we need?
And we can be pretty sure that in the process of acting we will make discoveries that will move the economy, and humanity, forward.
We can learn too from our elders. They remember a time when "disposable" wasn't part of our lexicon, when we lived with far less but family and community were the keys to happy, fulfilled lives.
.......The words ecology and economy both come from the Greek word oikos, meaning "home." Ecology is the "study of home," our biosphere. Economy is the "management of home." Ecologists try to find out how life flourishes on the planet, what conditions and principles govern life's well-being. Shouldn't economists work on how to live within the constraints of our home? Let's put the eco back into economics."
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