http://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-ants-mating-dying-half-eaten-queen-154803809.html
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FRISH
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
What passes as good news among climate scientists...
The "good news" has nothing to do with "the scientist's surprise"...
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V15/N11/B3.php Sponges will supersede us...
FRISH
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Republicans and Limbaugh brewhaha, LA Times Letter
Dear Republicans:
You object, religiously, to birth control? Fewer kids may be just what this world needs most.
Every one of us has the ability to act morally; it is up to the parishioner to do what's right.
Deciding that certain medical procedures are so sinful that they cannot be paid for is total bunk.
I'm beyond morally outraged, having paid taxes in support of "an elective war" in Iraq.
Please consider that the availability of birth control diminishes the power that men have over women.
I hope that's not too outrageous for anyone's religion.
Frish
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Let's continue to let corporations poison us en masse...
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/diet-soda-addictive
Sure, all the talking head TV doctors SHOULD talk about how tap water is better for you than anything in a plastic bottle.
Here's the real story, we've let corporations obtain total control
of the creation, use, and disposal of unique chemical substances.
http://www.iss.it/binary/publ/cont/ANN_08_04%20Binetti.1209032191.pdf
"The number of new chemicals synthesized and marketed increases exponentially.
The database CAS REGISTRY at present contains more than 33 million organic and inorganic substances. However, the little information regarding the potential hazard associated with a large amount of chemicals is an old known problem in the European Union and also in the United States."
Wherever you live in the world, politicians that give the right answer about people versus corporations must be in office.
If only we could get our stuff together enough to make it happen, we really could take back some of it.
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FRISHTuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Invader species welcomed into Great Lakes
My "Onion-Worthy" subject is actually true. Unfortunately.
So called "Property Rights" trumping science trumping economics trumping common sense trumping logic trumping sustainability.
On the bright side, I can just hear the advertising jingle now:
"Carp, get used to it, we're carnivores"
Aren't all those "resources" ours after all?
FRISH
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Fame, how bad do you want it? (now casting, soon to be autopsying...)
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/tfr/2819847441.html
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Life is far more flexible than we are, luckily
http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2012/02/deep-sea-hydrothermal-vent-community.html
This is good news.
There is a lot of life on Earth we know nothing about.
We are taking our best shot, but we probably can't exterminate everything...
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FRISHWednesday, February 22, 2012
Famous Last Words Example #739...
http://news.yahoo.com/radiation-detected-400-miles-off-japanese-coast-133824136.html
"This is good news," he said, adding that scientists expect levels to continue to decrease over time.
"We still don't have a full picture," Nies said, "but we can expect the situation will not become worse."
I'm not that reassured, honestly. FRISH
Monday, February 20, 2012
Meat, it's coming out of a vat near you soon!
In 1985 I had a discussion with a friend who was "morally opposed to the eating meat due to the suffering of animals" even as she admitted "I love bacon!"
Asked her if she'd have an objection to test tube meat. She didn't.
Took longer than I thought at the time but...
http://news.yahoo.com/first-test-tube-hamburger-ready-fall-researchers-003035452.html
Unless it comes with built in contraception, can't see how this will help reduce population pressure on the rest of the planet...
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FRISH
Asked her if she'd have an objection to test tube meat. She didn't.
Took longer than I thought at the time but...
http://news.yahoo.com/first-test-tube-hamburger-ready-fall-researchers-003035452.html
Unless it comes with built in contraception, can't see how this will help reduce population pressure on the rest of the planet...
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FRISH
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Improving photosynthesis...
Way too much research is going into "higher yield crops" and... Energy Production... instead of describing how human nature might be changed...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120217145755.htm
Without social science of the highest order, chasing MORE FOOD and MORE ENERGY simply means MORE PEOPLE, and Earth's interconnect set of energy and chemistry that supports life will more quickly degrade.
FRISH
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120217145755.htm
Without social science of the highest order, chasing MORE FOOD and MORE ENERGY simply means MORE PEOPLE, and Earth's interconnect set of energy and chemistry that supports life will more quickly degrade.
FRISH
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Best comment re: Rick Santorum's "Win"
"The GOP has truly relocated to CrazyTown!
A mythical place where Newt's the cranky old libidinous Mayor,
Mitt's the anal retentive, dictatorial Comptroller,
and Rick's the dim-witted dog catcher. "
(Stolen by frish. Many thanks to the poster, Juno100, who caught the gist of the evening.)
Haiku to Santorum (by Frish)
Corporations ain't folk!
Gay marriage isn't illegal.
Earth needs shepherding...
It's important to explore...
Here's something unsustainable that has unintended (not necessarily unforeseen) consequences...
Let's open up and thereby pollute this insanely scarce "resource", while allowing whatever has been sequestered down there to invade up here!
Next year's headline: "Surviving THE LIFE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD...!
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"FRISHTuesday, January 31, 2012
Past Climate change caused chaotic civilization chops
http://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-helped-bring-down-cultures-215100214.html
The Earth's Climate is changing faster than ever before.
Actions do speak louder than words, and having no children by choice says a lot!
Denialists cannot accept that our traditional way of coping with Nature (throw technology at it) will NOT work.
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FRISHFriday, January 27, 2012
Iran - to bomb or not to bomb (My Jewish Journal Editorial debut)
MY LETTER TO THE EDITOR PUBLISHED IN THE JEWISH JOURNAL. COOL BEANS...
In reply to a point/counterpoint from two policy wonks debating the merits of military or diplomatic means when working with Iran.
"When did elective war (or act of war) become an acceptable means to an end?
Can anyone explain a moral basis for a "preemptive attack" on Iranian assets, especially when no one really knows that they are building bombs?"
Frish
Friday, January 13, 2012
How not to do social network engineering..."4 people you might know on Google+"
Oh, how wonderful are email blasts.
Go out and touch your customer...this is what passes as relationship building in the age of mass mobile marketing.
Cost to google? $zero.
Loss of trust in Google as a whole? almost complete
Value to google: Much Less Than $Zero
Why "force" the network connections? Just bring us an infrastructure that's compelling and we're yours.
Let's see, might I know any?
No
No
Yes
No
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Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM
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It seems WAAAAY too much like the couch in the frat house in Animal House, four guys who will NEVER get into that frat...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
On 2012
I'm having a better than average start to a year, on every possible level.
If you hadn't heard, I'll share my 30 years (base 19) of observation that informs me:
The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment you can.
Happiest possible remainder of 2012 and beyond - to all!
Peace, FRISH
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Poster Child for NRA (and her mom too!)
...snip...
McKinley, who had been widowed less than a week before, placed a couch in front of one door and went to the bedroom and put a bottle in her baby's mouth before calling 911...
...snip...
FRISH
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
"Taking back America" *per Rick Santorum
Dear Editors:
"Taking back America" - Santorum says it.
Doesn't sound very inclusive.
He talks about dismantling every significant safety regulation and eliminating corporate taxes.
Why isn't he talking about "Sharing the goodness of America with those who are not yet benefiting enough?"
My fervent hope is that God, to whom Rick claims he owes so much, sets him straight and soon.
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FRISH
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FRISH
Monday, January 2, 2012
Yes, "INJECTION WELLS" caused earthquakes in Ohio...here's some of the oil industry apologists
"He said 177 deep injection wells have operated without incident in Ohio for decades and the Youngstown well was closed within 24 hours of a study detailing how close a Christmas Eve quake was to the well.
The industry-supported Ohio Oil and Gas Association said the rash of quakes was "a rare and isolated event that should not cast doubt about the effectiveness" of injection wells.
Such wells "have been used safely and reliably as a disposal method for wastewater from oil and gas operations in the U.S. since the 1930s," the association's executive vice president, Thomas E. Stewart, said in a statement Monday.
The real and near term issue is FRACKING, which is so obviously destructive without our being able to counteract the damage.
Why would anyone be nervous?
FRISH
Sunday, January 1, 2012
To 2012, may reason and truth guide our way
Happy New Year 2012 - in the spirit of having more fun in 2012...
YAHOO Science set of headlines 1/1/2012 at 8pm or so PST...
NASA marks 2012 with twin probes in moon orbit
(They are the ones with PROBES...maybe the ETs get it from NASA!)
Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA
(Thanks to the mystic Mayan Power Cloak!) http://soul2soultreasures.com/mayan_cloak/
Mysterious lights spotted on Christmas Eve explained
(Someone can't keep a secret!)
Hunt for meteor clues in 200-million-year-old murder mystery
(Talk about a cold case...!)
New Year Brings New Attacks on Evolution in Schools
("Join The Fight to Reclaim America!" - Bachmann Campaign Slogan)
China reveals its space plans up to 2016
(That's when they run out!)
Top 10 Health & Happiness Lessons of 2011
(Yeah, right. That's sooo last year!)
Show Less Science
(Seems we've been doing that for a long time!)
Time is not a renewable resource hope I didn't waste yours.
XO and much love to all!
-- FRISH
Unintended Consequences: Demand for "Organic" Food causes environment degradation
Organic Food - It's what's for dinner...Oh, can't get a fresh tomato this week? It's criminal I tell ya!
It only makes sense, there are so many of us buy local can't happen (year round).
We'd have to eat what was in season, near us.
Or things that were canned, frozen, dried or otherwise prepared to last through non-harvest seasons...
Like Grandma used to do (or Great Grandma perhaps...).
Consumers aren't really in charge of much...or knowledgeable, or concerned...
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FRISHTuesday, December 27, 2011
As seen on a Personals site: "I am unique in my onw way"
Could she be unique in any way but her own?
Did she know that spelling OWN - ONW only has 3,000,000 hits on the web.
So, how unique is she?
Did she know that spelling OWN - ONW only has 3,000,000 hits on the web.
So, how unique is she?
It's a mad mad mad mad world..."Location Scouting" to the max!
Obsessions on the internet are manifested in various and sundry ways.
This photo montage is probably the most complete documentation of movie location ever attempted.
It's a mad world indeed...
-- FRISH
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Mary, in this age, you have choices...
Open letter to Mary:
Before giving birth to the first Metrosexual, think about how much impact (over a couple millennium) your child will have..
Mostly being used as an excuse to "save savages" (thereby destroying indigenous people and culture) and commit atrocities (like institutionalized child
molestation, wars of convenience, and loads more...) I'm happy to see the concern on your face, do the right thing...save us from the savior PLEASE!
FRISH
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
one liner tech story
"Meg Whitman, who took over as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s chief executive officer two months ago, used her first earnings conference call to tell investors they need to lower their expectations." (Business Week, 11/22/11)
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FRISH
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Nano Particles additives and your liver...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111117141157.htm
I mean the story is so rife with material...but the best line:
"...they show dose-dependent toxic effects on the liver. Our next step is to determine the mechanism of the toxicity."
How about determining that the chemical additive not be used at all, instead of trying to accommodate it?
And peoplel think we're smart enough to avoid the looming disaster...
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FRISHSunday, November 13, 2011
letter to editors of Time regarding their "report" on overpopulation.
Okay, I get it, you bring us to the edge of our seats, with the certaintude that a huge extinction of other species is going on, our population growth is unsustainable, we're polluting and destroying our "habitat" (It's OUR PLANET...) Yet, somehow, we'll be able to feed everyone too...if politics *(pesky stuff politics) gets out of the way...and some future genius' show us the way out of our predicament.
Life is an interconnected set of chemistry and physics.
Extinctions of species is a problem, since ecologies are made up of groups of species.
Extinction creates chaos in those systems.
Take a peek at Humboldt Squids and Sharks...no more sharks, and loads of squid...eating things we'd like to eat, like salmon, the population of which is plummeting.
Do you really think we can have all these people on the planet, and still live in total harmony with the environment, so we don't continue to destroy our own nest?
I'm not suggesting, BY ANY MEANS, that anyone who is already alive should have anything but a long and enjoyable life.
I can make the case, however, that IT IS IMMORAL FOR ANYONE ON THE PLANET TO HAVE CHILDREN, ANYWHERE, ANYWHEN.
We've ALREADY caused enough destruction to preclude our continued existence, past 100 years from now, or less. Few of us have reached this conclusion, that flies in the face of every societal norm, since the total purpose of a society is it's continued existence, and we're suggesting extinction, in a totally non-coercive way, by voluntarily not having offspring.
Check this out, if you've read this far.
We're vehement (and serious too!)
FRISH
Statement of the UN Sec General
If this has already been posted, sorry about that,
Time Magazine is a pretty mainstream organ for overpopulation coverage...
and such and intriguing report...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said:
"Yesterday I spoke to students, pupils of a public high school [in Manhattan]. I was very much moved. Everybody brought small and big placards reading: "7 Billion, I'm a Part of 7 Billion."
It was quite moving; I saw very strong signs of hope."
To which one might say: "Huh?"
To which one might say: "Huh?"
Oh, sorry, if the Sec Genr'l isn't the ULTIMATE DIPLOMAT he's in the wrong job...
This is one part of the Time magazine online special section on overpopulation...
find the selection bar and visit other fascinating insights into the population of humanity on Planet Earth.
Here's the main article, all about how populations of humans and other animals may not be a comfortable fit.
Seems the animals are losing!
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FRISH
FRISH
Republican Candidates tortuous torture theory
Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both say they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.
Considering that all legal precedent in the US says waterboarding is torture (see definition of torture), it's fascination how the rule of law is interpreted...
Best yet, torture doesn't work during interrogations.
This isn't guesswork by some bleeding heart liberal, it is documented by those who actually endured torture...
any answer you want to hear will eventually be discovered,
The victim finds ways to appease the abuse by making stuff up.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Torture...and his response to it.
They waterboarded KSM 183 times in a month, and he either never got asked about couriers guarding OBL, or he avoided answering the question honestly. Had KSM revealed that detail, Bush might have gotten OBL 8 years ago.
And just as importantly, the whole time KSM was shielding Abu Ahmed's true identity while being waterboarded, KSM was also lying to the CIA about where OBL was. When asked what things he lied about under torture at his 2007 CSRT hearing, KSM specifically said he first said he didn't know of OBL's whereabouts, and then confirmed false locations for him, in response to the torture.
President [of the Tribunal]: What I'm trying to get at is any statement that you made was it because of this treatment, to use your word, you claim torture. Do you make any statements because of that?
[snip]
KSM: I make up stories just location UBL. Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaida which I don't him. I say no. They torture me.
So at the time when KSM was guarding crucial information about Abu Ahmed and with it OBL's location, he was making shit up to get the torture to stop.
They characterize this forced drowning as acceptable.
They risk the lives and safety of US soldiers taken prisoner, without any benefit.
The litmus test of beliefs about torture
(not to mention the no Tax Pledge - anyone who refuses to consider fiscal options ought not be able to be in political office at any level!),
differentiates legitimate candidates from the rest.
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FRISHSunday, November 6, 2011
Question to volunteers
Life up until now played no favorites. Operating across POPULATIONS over time, evolution allows life to establish and utilize energy niches.
CURRENT bio-technology allows for any string of dna components (AGTC) to be created via a dna generator essentially.
We're only beginning to see what all genes can do.
So, we're in a bit of a race against time, perhaps.
Can Bio engineering, a nascent science, (didn't want to say "embryonic" aren't you glad?!)
be enough for us to establish a human-centric ecology?
Are we smart enough to continuously generate biological tools to ameliorate our deprecation...
(Can we create artificial biology to suit our needs, since we can then create any life we desire...that which cleans up after us, grow our houses with food on the shelves, etc...)
Are we smart enough to do ANYTHING in a sustainable fashion? Maybe we won't have to...
I only know we've not been trying...
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FRISHOh the fragility of our global supply chain...so many weak links
How the effects of "global warming" (aka, Human Caused Climate Chaos) affect you.
From Fry's website...
Notice to Customers: Due to the flooding in Thailand and the foreseen shortages on hard drives,
Fry's Electronics is limiting hard drive sales to a quantity of one per customer at this time.
"Three months of intense rainfall have fueled Thailand's worst flooding in half a century,
swamping much of the country since July and leaving 506 people dead, according to the government."
I'm think I'll go "Occupy Fry's" until they'll sell me a second disk drive...
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FRISHSaturday, November 5, 2011
Pets and environmental impacts
"Companion Animals" aka pets are a welcome addition to millions of households world wide.
Googled "environmental impacts of pets" and found this article
which is pretty thorough, in terms of identifying the areas impacted by pet ownership.
(Food, shampoo, toys for pets, pet poop, etc. etc. etc.)
Which, if one can wade through it, is a serious attempt to quantify impacts of pets.
I get along great with pets and kids and have ABSOLUTELY NO DESIRE for any...
Pets are the outcome of domestication of animals altogether,
our brilliant neolithic predecessors finding animal "husbandry" a useful addition to the tribe.
*(evidence for dog domestication is certain at 7000bc, and may be as much as 30,000 years ago!)
These days it seems natural to enjoy the company of other species, even while suspending our disbelief,
since the pleasing behaviors we find in pets are behaviors we've bred into them.
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FRISHThe best pics ever...
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/earth-from-space-1320348799-slideshow/nasa-handout-photo-shows-earths-airglow-seen-oblique-photo-181358986.html
FRISH
These are all cool...my interest probably stems from many early mornings watching Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo liftoffs with my father...
Shot number 7 is like, beyond the outer limits...
Gotta love the internet...
("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.")
-- FRISH
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2011
One 1%er
Dozens in a group of 99%ers who were chanting and holding banners
One guy dressed as a QR Code - hilarious..
One Billy Mays (also Hilarious - TV Pitchman who died last year..)
One Billy Mays (also Hilarious - TV Pitchman who died last year..)
Lots of Mad Hatters
Lots of Pirates
Lots of Super Heroes - Thor, Green Lantern, Captain America and thousands of Batmen and Robins!
On street for 6.5 hours, that was enough!
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FRISH
FRISH
Friday, October 28, 2011
Another "unintended consequence" we need to "accommodate" to ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/us-climate-crops-idUSTRE79N07420111024
There are strategies for coping with the not very distant human die off on our soon to be uninhabitable planet.
One is "adaptation" -- do things that allow us to cope with it.
In the world of industrial agriculture, Monsanto is the head and shoulder's leader in genetically modified ecologies...
Seedling Haiku
Hello Monsanto
IT'S THE HEAT NOT THE MOISTURE...*
Get your best on it.
Oops, almost forgot!
Profits have no morality...
They've no need for speed.
I think, in my utopia, those two industries, and telecom (to control virus' etc., has to be centralized and distributed both(!)) all ought to be "free" for users.
I'll take death panels, no meat animals and free internet over what we're doing now. LOL
--FRISH
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The world's most crowded place
Slideshow. 130,000 peeps in ONE SQUARE KILOMETER
= 1,000,000 square meters
1,000,000 sq meters / 130000 people = about 7.69 square meters...
About 80 square feet per person.
Not surprisingly, they had to go vertical!
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FRISH
FRISH
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Screams lead deputies to man stuck under tree
Screams lead deputies to man stuck under tree
Firefighters are trying to remove a man who became trapped underneath a tree near a creek bed.
LAGUNA HILLS – Screams for help led deputies down a creek bed to find a man stuck underneath a tree Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Deputies discovered the man trapped at about 10:30 a.m. after receiving reports of someone screaming and conducting a patrol check near Los Alisos Boulevard and Paseo de Valenica, said Lt. Roland Chacon of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
"The subject is stuck underneath the tree, and part of his body is underground as well," Chacon said.
Firefighters were also called for a mental health check, said Battalion Chief Kris Concepcion of the Orange County Fire Authority.
Authorities are not sure how the man became stuck underneath the tree, officials said, but have requested heavy equipment to get him out.
As of noon, the man was still trapped under the tree, Chacon said.
(That's as of noon today, about an hour ago!)FRISH
How to cope with fewer people...
http://news.yahoo.com/next-challenge-not-too-many-people-too-few-112046879.html
I find the entire premise hilarious.
Some journalist trying to spin their treatment of "declining birth rates..." to create a titillating headline.
No discussion regards the state of the rest of the world due to our continued interest in eating...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Ben and Jerry's new rum flavor offering is being denied shelfspace
(Some Mississippi based do gooder group is out to kill their new flavor, and the url tells more, but here is the takeaway...
"The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive. Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket," the organization's website says.
But some are — including Gina Ragusa's 14-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter, whose mother said Thursday
they all eagerly await the day when they can find Schweddy Balls in a supermarket near their home in Davie, Fla.
Ragusa, 44, said they find the name and the skit itself to be just harmless humor, and she checks for the item almost every time she stops at her nearby Publix store."
(((Where else would you attempt to find Schweddy Balls?)))
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FRISH
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FRISH
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Meet your 7 billion neighbors
The numbers behind the numbers: Meet your 7 billion neighbors by Lisa Hymas 23 Sep 2011
http://www.grist.org/population/2011-09-23-numbers-statistics-population-meet-your-7-billion-neighbors
Yeah, yeah, you know -- the world population is hitting 7 billion this year. Here are some facts about the world's people that you might not already be familiar with.
50,000 -- years it took for the human population to reach 1 billion, in 1800 1
12 -- years it took to add the latest billion, in 2011 2
12 -- projected number of years it could take to add the next billion, by 2023 2
9.3 billion -- potential world population in 2050, according to the U.N.'s medium projection 3
10.1 billion -- potential world population in 2100, according to the U.N.'s medium projection 3
15.8 billion -- potential world population in 2100 if fertility rates don't fall as much as expected, according to the U.N.'s high projection 3
158 -- people added to the planet every minute (births minus deaths) 4
227,252 -- people added to the planet every day 4
82,947,000 -- people added to the planet every year 4
100-1,000 -- factor by which the extinction rate of species has increased since Homo sapiens came onto the scene 5
15-37 -- percentage of existing species expected to be pushed to extinction by 2050 because of human-driven climate change 6
60 -- percentage of key ecosystem services (freshwater, air and water purification, etc.) degraded or used unsustainably by humans over the last 50 years 7
350,000 -- number of Endangered Species Condoms the Center for Biological Diversity gave away in 2010 8
100,000 -- number of Endangered Species Condoms the center plans to give away this fall, with your help 8
5.0 -- number of children born to the average woman in 1950 9
2.5 -- number of children born to the average woman today 4, 9
2.0 -- number of children born to the average woman in the U.S. 4
0.9 -- number of children born to the average woman in Taiwan, the country with the world's lowest fertility rate 4
7.0 -- number of children born to the average woman in Niger, the country with the world's highest fertility rate 4
215 million -- number of women in the world who want to prevent or delay pregnancy but don't have access to modern contraception 10
$16.9 billion -- estimated annual cost of providing family-planning services to all women in developing countries 11
$20.8 billion -- amount Wall Street firms paid out in bonuses in 2010 12
1.25 billion -- number of people living in more developed countries 4
5.75 billion -- number of people living in less developed countries 4
100 -- percentage of future population growth expected to happen in less developed countries 13
1.35 billion -- population of China, the most populous nation on earth 4
1.24 billion -- population of India, the second most populous nation 4
312 million -- population of the U.S., the third most populous nation 4
4.5 -- percentage of world population living in the U.S. 14
18 -- percentage of global CO2 from fossil-fuel burning emitted in the U.S. 15
1 -- rank of the U.S. in terms of energy consumption 16
18 -- number of languages the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement website has been translated into 17
http://www.vhemt.org/
0 -- chance of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement achieving its goal
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Sources:
Hat tips to Vicky Markham and Laurie Mazur.
1. "What If Experts Are Wrong On World Population Growth?" by Carl Haub, Yale Environment 360.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/what_if_experts_are_wrong_on_world_population_growth/2444/
"Scientists Rough Out Humanity's 50,000-Year-Old Story," by Nicholas Wade, New York Times Learning Network.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20001115wednesday.html
2. "Population Bulletin: The World at 7 Billion," Population Reference Bureau.
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2011/world-population-data-sheet/population-bulletin.aspx
3. "World Population to Reach 10 Billion by 2100 if Fertility in All Countries Converges to Replacement Level" [PDF], United Nations.
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Other-Information/Press_Release_WPP2010.pdf
4. "2011 World Population Data Sheet," Population Reference Bureau.
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2011/world-population-data-sheet/data-sheet.aspx
5. "Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve, say experts," by Juliette Jowit, The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/extinction-species-evolve
6. "Extinction risk from climate change," by Chris D. Thomas et al., Nature.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6970/abs/nature02121.html
7. "Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis" [PDF], Millenium Ecosystem Assessment.
http://millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf
8. "Endangered Species Condoms," Center for Biological Diversity.
http://www.endangeredspeciescondoms.com/
9. "9 Billion?" by Leslie Roberts, Science.
http://video.sciencemag.org/SciOriginals/1084573072001/1
10. "Facts on Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health" [PDF], Guttmacher Institute.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-AIU-summary.pdf
11. "Population policies, programmes and the environment," by J. Joseph Speidel et al., Philosophical Transactions B. Correspondence with J. Joseph Speidel, August 2011.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1532/3049.short
12. "Wall Street bonuses," The Economist.
http://www.economist.com/node/18231330
"Wall Street Cash Bonuses Fall, Despite Strong Profit," by Brett Philbin, The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703775704576162731016064512.html
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http://www.unfpa.org/pds/trends.htm
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http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
15. "List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions," Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
16. The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
17. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement website.
http://www.vhemt.org/
Augie
Live Simply So That
Others May Simply Live
FRISH
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Bootprints
Eco_h2o wrote:
What about our present abusive bootprint on the extinguishing bodies and habitats of thousands of innocent, nonhuman, beings?
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What about our present abusive bootprint on the extinguishing bodies and habitats of thousands of innocent, nonhuman, beings?
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Eco, as usual(!) we are in violent agreement,
not much can save many of those habitats or those bodies headed for extinction.
Doubt we are doing this ecological damage on purpose, it's "western civilization going global" on purpose.
Bear with me...
I founded a software firm and created a tool used to prepare tests that improve management plans.
How do 24/7 operations respond to "low probability, high impact" events?
Those contingency plans require testing to ensure they will perform when the real thing happens.
Item 12 on the list is the hugely steaming 15 lbs of POLITICS stuffed in a 10 lb bag...and points out why we failed, not for lack of trying, but because of the "political" exposure using our product produces!
Continuous process improvement is attainable,
and could even be placed into existing governmental processes to make them continuously better.
Defining "Better" entails setting goals, those goals are what politics is all about!
Government, "by the people", has the power to do the right thing.
If "by the people" we mean those who live and breathe, not corporations for example.
THE PEOPLE can motivate both corporate moguls and government bureaucrats to do the right thing,
if we can agree on what GOAL we are setting out to achieve.
We VOLUNTEERS are doing our part,
each of us denying our peculiar genetic information from continuing within the human genome.
Seems a good compromise, since never has a government formed
for the purpose of assisting those governed in non-propagation, so as to vanish from the Earth.
As I see it, we volunteers, by our unique natures, can have only one common political purpose.
We must establish (where necessary) and continuously assure (everywhere) the freedom to "just say no" to childbearing.
Frish
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