Comments on: Defending Ourselves by Defending Our Environment

By: Danpa Nyee's Singing Bowls

Danpa Nyee's Singing Bowls — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:21:12 +0000

It is very hard to talk these days about prisons, about educating criminals. In order to better understand things one should definitely practice self defense.

Regards,
Danpa Nyee Ma

By: Bill Souza

Bill Souza — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:33:09 +0000

I agree with what you say about people being let out of prison and they just commit the same crimes again. I think the prison system should pay the victims for the crimes committed aginst
them and their familys.

I also think we have to educate the people to protect themselves. Most people think that the crime victims are always the other person. I have always said “protect you and your family, if you don’t then who will?”.

By: Sara Cowgill

Sara Cowgill — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:37:00 +0000

LAWS don’t work, anyway, they just cahnge them so they can keep polluting- consider the Clean Water Act, for example, change the word waste to fill and now they fill all the streams with “overburden” which is fill laden with heavy metals but not exactly Waste- BS
BUT IT IS DENIAL to think that by having a bigger yard, only using the dishwasher once a day and changing to florescent lightbulbs that the Mountain Top Removal of Coal in Appalachia is going to stop.
You may be right- we may have to take matters into our own hands.
I would pull the balls off a man trying to rape me. I would kill him if I had the chance– so what will I do to the comapnies that rape and ravage my land? I think violent thoughts, and I feel a hatred that I try to dispell with spiritual mantras, prayers and meditation, seeking guidance– how to wake America? How to take the sheep skin from the wolves? How to educate the ignorant overnight? How to tell a man not to go to work– he doesn’t want to trash his hunting ground, but he got to put meat on the table- easier from Walmart thatn going hunting???

i can’t stand what they are doing. I Love my mountains. The whole state is a mountain, a big voluptuous, curvatious beautufl set of ridgelines, all covered in lush deciduous forests

Help me defend myself! learn who to Boycott, learn who to write, learn what laws, if any ARE worth writing, and enforcing– Capitalism depends on Men of Honor and Integrity== these men have neither and I will be glad when they are dust and gone

By: MyCul Nord

MyCul Nord — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:06:36 +0000

Too much water has been remove from nature’s control. When the Americas and Europe release most of their captured water back to its true owner (the Earth) global warming, the process by which the Earth replaces water (mistakenly removed from the planet’s control by some unauthorized activity, will no longer be necessary for the Earth to fully comply with rule number one. Global warming will be reversed and the planet will get back to full complience with rule number two.

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:30:45 +0000

I agree with your post, however I must warn you against making utilitarian comparisons. As you may know, value comparisons between individuals are actually impossible, and so any such statement is invalid. Let’s just keep out of utilitarianism.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:19:54 +0000

Very intersting. We have to change the way we think instead of forcing people do to do the right things by punishing them. Under the current situation I am not sure if we can really get away with continuing to make laws that much of the time are only put up so the government can take more money out of the pockets of those who need it. The world is something that is ours and something each of us has to treat as if it is our own little backyard and not something that is just there. It is to be respected and loved and not destroyed. But as the saying goes, “Laws and rules are meant to be broken.” Many times people are good but they hate laws so much and the feeling of being controlled by these laws so much they feel the urge to break them at any and every opportunity.

By: Ashley Darby

Ashley Darby — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:12:21 +0000

Great blog, very well written, and I love what you say about trying to regulate corporations that are polluting our environment, and even more importantly regulation the government monitoring how much pollution they chuck out into the atmosphere – along with many other things! Everyone and anyone needs to get involved by showing people that the planet needs to be protected, and making sure that we can all stand up and do something against what is (or isn’t) being done right now.

By: Andy Sheridan

Andy Sheridan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:39:55 +0000

I came across the following pdf the other day. It’s a summary of the international policy for global warming, as ermerged from the G8 development ministers meeting in Japan over the weekend. May be worth checking out to find out what the G8 are upto on the subject. I haven’t had chance to check through it fully myself yet, but will do once I get the time. From a quick glance it seems (unsurprisingly!) to be all about mantaining economic growth, whilst attempting to tackle climate change. Haven’t read the details of this though yet. Have to say though, I am, at present, one of those who thinks economic growth and environental disaster go hand in hand, like two sides of the same coin.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/environment/warm/cop/policy0803.pdf

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:42:37 +0000

A lot of interesting points which are important to discuss. I also agree that laws will not help, with the current state of international governance and laws, just look at the many governments around the world that act above international law already, which in itself is almost a joke. Corporations are even worse, penalties for breaking such environmental laws are hefty fines, and as far as corporations are concerned it is merely a question of profit margins to them. If the fines are less than what they will gain by breaking them, then of course they will break them. As well as this we already have examples of nations buying and selling allocated carbon limits as if they are trade-able commodities themselves.
On the issue of boycotting, it is kind of a grey area to me. I am not sure where I stand on boycotts, I suppose each case is different. My worry is that boycotts may be intended to harm a corporation but ultimately that harm will be passed down to the bottom. Workers will be laid off, have their wages cut or their working conditions worsened in order to preserve wealth further up the hierarchy. I am yet to be convinced on boycotts. Although of course we must do something, spreading awareness is vitally important. The sad truth is that we have a huge battle in protecting the environment under global capitalism, because it is so self-destructive due to it being structured around short-term goals and gains.
I look forward to reading more.

By: Elaine O'Hehir

Elaine O'Hehir — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:07:26 +0000

This is a great read you have put a lot of effort into it. The article on Bullies I found particularly interesting as it happened to my children and was quite hard to deal with. Keep up the great work I look forward to reading more.