Companies That Destroy The Environment

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  1. Fairlight

    Fairlight Banned

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    Energy grows on trees

    A free lunch for you and me

    They don't own the sun

    And the sea belongs to no one.
     
  2. thefutureawaits

    thefutureawaits Members

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    The building of nuclear power plants was a very ambitious and short sighted achievement. Mankind creates things that kill. Wow, go figure right. Beat your swords into pruning shears.
     
  3. themnax

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    not a fee lunch certainly. those dwell in the same magical land with dragons and unicorns. but a far less expensive one in real terms, and envirnoment is a real term of human existence.
     
  4. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    The Clamshell Alliance will be pleased


    Hotwater
     
  5. scratcho

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    The pollution is bad, but the continual, unabated conversion of resources into products is the real problem. Pollution is naturally concomitant and can only get worse.
     
  6. themnax

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    only it isn't real products. as i was pointing out, that's less then 20% of it. the bulk is from energy and transportation, both of which are perfectly capable of being done in other ways that don't. other ways that aren't, for the single reason that greed benefits more, from the needlessly familiar.

    we HAVE the means, to produce ALL the energy we need, and that includes for transportation and manufacturing, as well as all the domestic consumption we take for granted, without the use of combustion (to produce energy), and that includes without the need to mine and enrich uranium.

    this ISN'T an inevitable result of demand. it is a combination of demand, population, and just plain fat headed stupidity.
     
  7. scratcho

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    The means of producing alternative energies have been around for quite a while. The means to ending world hunger exist. The will to do these

    reasonable, LONG RANGE and unquestionably sensible goals cannot be done under the presently "accepted" paradigm under which we were born and under which many, many suffer.

    Millions and millions of tons of chemicals in our food. Endlessly fighting wars over this and that-(who cares what--it will ALWAYS be

    something=check human history).

    Intransigence by greedy, power hungry individuals and societies, preclude any changing from the reckless, short term thinking of the human

    psyche that sees--for example--that Ayn Rand had it right. Go along with the program or suffer. Or die.

    AS far as I'm concerned, humanity took a wrong turn somewhere back in the mists of time. History, as written by future historians,

    will show that the present culmination(?) of how humanity immersed/es itself into a dead end way of immaturity,will only result in ever

    worsening conditions for earth and all sentient beings, extant.

    This little blue ball hurtling from somewhere to somewhere else could be, or COULD HAVE BEEN arranged for the benefit of all, instead of a

    relative few.

    Companies that destroy the environment are secondary to the mind set that encourages the continuance of our present ways. The whole rig

    needs changing. But of course the main thing is: BUY MORE. BUY MORE NOW.
     
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