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POPS'Smart Planet' Report - U.S. Water Consumption Down Despite Population Increase This clip comes to us via "Smart Planet" and suggests that U.S. water consumption is down despite a 30% increase in population. The article shows an interesting breakdown of our water usage, revealing that the bulk of our water use is in irrigation and thermoelectric power generation. Only 1% of our total water use is on domestic use. Think how much lower we could drive the 49% use for thermoelectric power generation if we upgraded our badly-antiquated power grid?
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POPSNot Evil Just Wrong | Documentary, Movie Not Evil Just Wrong: One of the questions came from Phelim McAleer, the director of 'Not Evil Just Wrong' (2008), a documentary about how certain extreme environmentalism can ... Not evil just wrong, not evil just wrong documentary, phelim mcaleer, not evil just wrong movie.
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POPSNOT EVIL JUST WRONG After they are Finished Crashing the American Dollar The new Dollar The Amero will be Back by nothing else but the carbon credit.. the Carbon credit how the world is going to be forced to pay the Elites for nothing
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POPSWhy Europeans are Turning Against Obama
Third: With the cradle to grave security guaranteed by government and the lack of job creation, the level of permanent unemployment has remained in the double digit range and the birth rate has so declined that in most countries it is below replacement levels. Fourth: Nearly all Western European countries are now faced with inevitable bankruptcy due to the excessive entitlements. In the past ten years, some in Europe have begun to wake up and realize this path can no longer be sustained and changes had to be made on a gradual basis. However, as long as the United States was there, not only to defend Europe but also to be the dominate economic power in the world, time was certainly on their side. President Obama's policies have now begun to open the eyes of the most hardened socialist in Europe and the reality of world without the United States being the economic and military super power thus potentially ushering in the demise of Western Civilization
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POPSGreen toilet wins city approval Composting toilets should not just be permitted, they should be mandatory. I have one in 'my' woodland. It works perfectly with less smell than the water closet system.
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POPSLawsuits filed over wolf hunting in Rockies http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31073035/ This disgusts me. In one paragraph it says that there are about 300 wolves left in Wyoming. THEN it goes on to say that the population has completely returned. That is absurd.
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POPSGreen Indoctrination Happening At Our Schools Now I know the “s” word gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it seems pretty clear to me that environmentalism is all about indoctrinating kids into socialist thinking. In the past socialism hasn’t got in in free western societies because, well, the fruits of freedom and free market capitalism are just too tasty for anyone to want socialism. But with environmentalism as a vehicle for socialism, suddenly it becomes a lot more appealing. Suddenly it’s not about dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator. It’s not about subjugating the individual for the good of the collective. Suddenly, it’s about saving the planet lest we die in an ice-cap-melting armageddon! This an effective tactic, and it’s exactly why the government shouldn’t have a monopoly on education any more.
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POPSEnvironmental skepticism exposed
The Big Picture... Two factors in the early 90s pushed the environmental movement to center stage. One was the vacuum produced by the disappearance of a favorite right wing bogeyman, the "international communist menace." The other was the growing global environmental movement, most conspicuously on display at the Earth Summit in Rio, 1992. Globalization was well underway and "free-trade" for the CTTs meant trade free of any constraints -- constraints on how workers were treated and paid, how the environment was treated and paid for, how consumers were treated and how much they paid. You can get a glimpse of the power of the moment by watcjomg the show stopping 5 minute performance of 12 year old Severn Suzuki at the 1992 Rio Summit. If you've never seen it, take a look. It represented the kind of developing political and ideological power the Right feared most. In 1992 it wasn't yet feasible to destroy the government mechanism of environmental protection by executive fiat. Reagan t
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POPS(No) Drill, Baby, Drill But when Costa Rica put one minister in charge of energy and environment, “it created a very different way of thinking about how to solve problems,” said Rodríguez, now a regional vice president for Conservation International. “The environment sector was able to influence the energy choices by saying: ‘Look, if you want cheap energy, the cheapest energy in the long-run is renewable energy. So let’s not think just about the next six months; let’s think out 25 years.’ ” As a result, Costa Rica hugely invested in hydro-electric power, wind and geo-thermal, and today it gets more than 95 percent of its energy from these renewables. In 1985, it was 50 percent hydro, 50 percent oil. More interesting, Costa Rica discovered its own oil five years ago but decided to ban drilling — so as not to pollute its politics or environment! What country bans oil drilling?
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POPSEnlightened Environmentalism corporations wanted to dump all the externalities on the community; taxing others for their abuses--good thinking Costa Rica! Instead of welfare for corporations, let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps and pay all their costs.
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POPSFor Environmentalists, Nature Has Become Their GOD
This environmental fatigue doesn’t suggest a belief in man-made global warming, or even that Earth’s current temperature is alarming. Personally, I think most global warmists are misguided cultists eager to swallow the religion of environmentalism. Jonestown, here we come. To all the various people and agencies who’re trying to force their faith down my throat, do something significant or shut up. I am not even railing about the hypocrisy of the wealthy celebrity warmists whose lifestyle makes a daily carbon footprint as large as one of China’s coal-fired plants. I’m not going to tsk-tsk about the well-off residents of Martha’s Vineyard like Walter Cronkite or the Robert F. Kennedy, JR, who have rejected a wind farm in Nantucket bay because it will spoil their view. I could care less that Al Gore has made a bigger mess of the environment with his nine concerts than years of single toilet paper use by the entire population could compensate for.
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POPSCzech President: Global Warming Imposing A Global Tyranny Worse Than Communism We're not sure how effective it will be, but it's certainly ambitious as it seeks to reorder the world economy in a de facto repeal of the Industrial Revolution. Under the supervision of the U.N., free trade would die, industries that survived could be relocated across borders, and we would have mandatory carbon offsets and cap-and-trade imposed on a global scale. Part of the "framework" of this new and more draconian Kyoto pact is a new kind of tariff known as a "border carbon adjustment" that the note describes as "a levy on imported goods equal to that which would have been imposed had they been produced domestically." In other words, if the exporting country does not impose a carbon tax, the importing country will. Under this global climate regime, tariffs would be allowed "as protective barriers to shelter producers of climate-friendly goods." The note endorses subsidies for producers of goods that are deemed "environmentally sound."
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POPSPoverty Is The Answer - Environmentalism But you can bet that he and his co-believers would strive mightily to stifle development in now destitute areas of the world--dooming perhaps billions of people to lives of continued squalor, disease, and lower life expectancies. More to the point of what we discuss here at SHS, human beings are a logical species: We take our ideas where they lead! (Thus, once Americans accepted the verity of Jefferson's "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."it doomed slavery, because servitude and equality are incompatible.) For the same reason, once we accept the fundamental premise of the piece--that we must sacrifice human prosperity to "save the planet"--the misanthropic ideology of Deep Ecology--humans as a viral infection afflicting Gaia--with radical depopulation as the cure--consider the genocidal implications--become a logical next step
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POPSThe gods of Liberalism Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor. While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art, its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar. The worship of “fertility” has been replaced with worship of “reproductive freedom” or “choice.” Child sacrifice via burnt offering has been updated, ever so slightly, to become child sacrifice by way of abortion. The ritualistic promotion, practice and celebration of both heterosexual and homosexual immorality and promiscuity have been carefully whitewashed – yet wholeheartedly embraced – by the cults of radical feminism, militant “gay rights” and “comprehensive sex education.” And, the pantheistic worship of “mother earth” has been substituted – in name only – for radical environmentalism.
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POPSOVER POPULATION. Can We Continue to Ignore It? It is the achilles heel of democracy~ no one is likely to vote for a politician that might tell you how many children you can have, but if there are no leaders to tackle the problem then would we rather rely on natural causes to regulate the human population? Like so many things, the longer it is ignored the harder its going to be to deal with. I believe the problems of resource abuse and population could both be addressed by a willingness to realise when we have enough~ enough clothes, or enough cars, enough houses, or enough children. And then stop acquiring more.Some believe that if contraception was available to every woman, that alone would prevent the population from increasing, as the indigenous populations of developed countries are often found to be in decline. But that still requires the ability to say 'Enough' ~ is enough....
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