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Benno Hansen

How the 1% Pillage the Environment | AlterNet - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • when there’s money to be made, both workers and the environment are expendable
  • If you are a CEO who skims millions of dollars off other people’s labor, it’s called a “bonus.”  If you are a flood victim who breaks into a sporting goods store to grab a lifejacket, it’s called looting.  If you lose your job and fall behind on your mortgage, you get evicted.  If you are a banker-broker who designed flawed mortgages that caused a million people to lose their homes, you get a second-home vacation-mansion near a golf course.
  • The 1% are willing to spend billions impeding democratic initiatives, which is why every so-called environmental issue is also about building a democratic culture.
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  • If you drag heavy fishnets across the ocean floor and pulverize an entire ecosystem, ending thousands of years of dynamic evolution and depriving future generations of a healthy ocean, it’s called free enterprise.  But if, like Tim DeChristopher, you disrupt an auction of public land to oil and gas companies, it’s called a crime and you get two years in jail.   
  • Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin. 
  • The desperate effort to grow the economy to solve our economic woes is what keeps Timothy Geithner at the helm of the Treasury and is what stalls the regulation of greenhouse gasses.  It’s why we are told we must sacrifice environmental quality for pipelines and why young men and women are sacrificed to protect access to oil, the lubricant for an acquisitive economic engine.
  • we have built an all-encompassing economic engine that requires unending growth.  A contraction of even a percent or two is a crisis, and yet we are embedded in ecosystems that are reaching or have reached their limits.
  • Like so much else these days, the crash, as it happens, will not be suffered in equal measure by all of us.  The one percenters will be atop the hill, while the 99% will be in the flood lands below swimming for their lives, clinging to debris, or drowning.
  • Degrading the planet’s operating systems to bolster the bottom line is foolish and reckless.  It hurts us all.  No less important, it’s unfair.  The 1% profit, while the rest of us cough and cope. After Occupy Wall Street, isn’t it time for Occupy Earth?
firozcosmolance

TOP 5 DOG FRIENDLY CAFES IN DELHI NCR - Gossip Ki Galliyan - 0 views

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shared by firozcosmolance on 17 May 19 - No Cached
  • firozcosmolance on 17 May 19
     
    Dogs are the cutest creatures on earth and we all adore them and want to pet them but sadly most parents in India don't allow their kids to get a dog as a pet by saying their standard favourite line; "Only one dog can live in this house"! We can relate to that frustration of yours on not being able to get a dog, but don't worry we've curated a list of top 5 dog friendly cafes in Delhi NCR which are always flooded with dog parents and you can go there with or without a pet and enjoy your day! Whether you're a dog parent or not, you must visit these 5 cafes to give yourself some pup therapy
Benno Hansen

How to adapt to climate change : Nature News - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 25 Feb 09 - Cached
  • They're also growing vegetables — rather than crops like wheat — on floating gardens. They use a bamboo frame and load it with water hyacinth, which rots and makes a bed for vegetables to grow. Then when the flood water rises, they can still harvest food.
attayaya yaya

Global Warming, what's all the fuss about - 2 views

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shared by attayaya yaya on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • attayaya yaya on 24 Jun 11
     
    they don't fuss
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