Environmentalism

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idea posted by Taylor Mon, 2007-05-14 00:24

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Title	Author	Category	Thoughts
Global Certification	BulbMedia	Interest	Idea Group: Environmentalism Idea Category: Interest The Global Alliance How to address the global crisis By Richard Hilton Over the past 500 years, the population of humans on Earth has grown from half a billion, to 6 and a half billion. Technology, the global market place, and powerful corporations are thriving and have given rise to a more globally connected planet. These powerful forces have also introduced new environmental and social problems on a global scale. The solution to this global crisis, is a global alliance. The global alliance I propose would consist of prestigious intellects, and respected thinkers from different cultures of the earth. This round table of great thinkers would come to ethical and environmental decisions on how humans should live in the 21st century. The goal of the global alliance is to prolong the survival of life on earth over thousands of year. The organization will do this by spreading awareness of ideas, ethics, businesses, and products that abide by the set of standards that do not damage or abuse future life on earth. The global alliance would be able to certify individuals and business, that are aware of global issues, and are actively involved in decision making that prolong life on earth. An individual or business can become certified by first being educated on the major issues of our time. Second the individual or business will need to pass a multiple choice test that addresses the major global issues. If an individual answer a question that the global alliance does not agree with, the individual would be educated on the subject, and will be given an opportunity to answer the question again. Thirdly, the individual or business will voluntarily agree to choose to live by the ethics presented by the global alliance. Businesses that are certified by the global alliance will be required to pay a nominal fee, and would be able to display the Globally Certified Logo for the public to see. Globally certified intelligent people will naturally support Globally Certified businesses over heartless self centered businesses. Globally certified individuals and businesses would be educated in a variety of topics such as: Population regulation, voter turnout, environmentalism, diet, garbage, pollution, and destructive market trends. Earth conscious businesses will be promoted, while destructive heartless corporations will be boycotted or avoided. Certified individuals and people will need to be re-certified each year. The global alliance could potentially unite the planet with wisdom, and promote decision making that prolongs life on planet earth. As each individual realizes that by being educated about the current issues, they can do there part in to protect the planet. As the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world." ‹ Groups up Ideologies ›
Environmentalism	kiva	Belief	Idea Group: Environmentalism Idea Category: Belief I'm down with the trees and they are down with me.
Ice Age A Comin'	Agent Pugsly	Belief	Idea Group: Environmentalism Idea Category: Belief I feel the evidence provided implies that an ice age is coming. I'd love to hear both sides but science(?) isn't happening.
Environmentalism	maluithil	Belief	Idea Group: Environmentalism Idea Category: Belief The plants of the earth provide the air we breathe. Plants and animals provide the food we consume. Biodiversity contributes to maintanance of diverse ecological systems which only as whole units can provide specific organisms essential to our survival, comfort, and progress. Thus I say: the earth is important. Preserving the earth, or limiting some human interests to maintain biodiversity and retain the natural wonders around us contributes to our survival, comfort, and progress. For example, the rainforest around equatorial America contains an extremely high biodiversity; some of the rare organisms found there have been used to make breakthroughs in medicine and chemical science; these forests are being demolished, but restriction of those who would do so would perhaps contribute more to the global economic and technological markets through science and medicine than through lumber, coal, and cattle. Thus I say: those who say environmentalists are anti-humanist are wrong and perhaps foolish. Besides the concrete ways the natural world in its biodiversity can specifically aid the survival of humans, nature is just pretty, and life for everyone is simply much more pleasant with natural areas than without. The vistas of the natural world are endless sources of wonder and awe, inspiring and teaching us. I wish to protect the earth not just because we need it for our survival, but because it is wonderful independant of its use to us. I love the earth, nature, nearly every organism. My love compells me not to think of what it can do for me, but what I can do for it.

The environment is essential to human life and we must take care of how we use it to protect our health.

Nature is the essential ultimate provider of everything all living things like us need to survive. People’s actions have consequences and if we don’t take care not to spoil and destroy the natural order of life on earth, not only do we drive other species extinct but also we threaten our own species with ultimate extinction. Damage to our environment affects our health when the poisons we dump into the water, air and food filter back into our bodies to make us sicken and die.

If you are tired of having a bureaucratic companies feed you jargon that they are taking the actions to making a healthier environment,

then join this group, and institute change in your area. Please use this group to bring up concerns, post pictures, create missions, etc.

towards bringing awareness about the environment. There are too many companies that say that one thing is happening, and doing another.

It's time for the lies to stop!

Related Ideas: Anti-Pollution, Anti-Ozone Depletion, Anti-Global Warming, Anti-Acid Rain, Anti-Species Extinction, Regulation, Safety, Anti-Deregulation, Anti-Greed, Planning, Community, Democracy, Human Rights, Dissent, Litigation, Activism

Quotes

“We didn’t inherit this land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”

—Lakota Sioux Proverb

“I was probably pre-disposed toward conservatism since I was raised in a military family and grew up in Texas, a state that has a low tolerance for unionism and a high tolerance for guns and the death penalty. Nonetheless, in my 20s I had a small streak of liberalism that manifested itself in Sierra Club-like activities. This was due to an extensive amount of back country hiking and wilderness backpacking.”

—M. Mosher (ask)

Sun-drying Laundry

It’s a simple way to save tons of energy.

Conservationism

People should campaign for, support, and work toward the preservation, management, and care of the environment's natural resources, especially of the countryside.

“Thank god they cannot cut down the clouds!”

—Henry David Thoreau

Environmental Activism

Development of health problems because of industrial waste. Chemicals. Asthma, epilepsy, depressed immune system, leukemia, blood problems... Disadvantage. Pollution/toxin system.

“It’s my fault, I made a decision that I would wait for someone else to do something about this, what kind of a responsible mother would I be to sit back and wait for my kids to be poisoned... I knocked on my neighbor’s doors and found 56% with birth defects like serious mutations... There are many people out there who are not doing this because of professional growth but because children are dying. If somebody somewhere gave a permit which is a license to kill as far as I’m concerned, they have to be stopped.”

—Louise Gibbs, Tragedy at Love Canal 2. 10:30

If you remove people from exposure they can become well. Diseases recover. They said its chronic – it’s not, the situation was chronic.

Fighting companies for money to move away.

Connect industrial waste into environmental effects on characters.

Tree Sitting

One way of stopping logging is to take to the trees as a human shield. http://www.tree-sit.org/

Trigger: Anti-Logging,

Conservationism, Environmentalism, Courage, Self-Sacrifice, Non-Violent Direct Action, Media Spectacle, Confrontation, Anti-Corporatism

Anti-Extinction

quote from suzuki E O Wilson The idea that extinction is natural, and so has it ever been,... denial”

Overpopulation Control

“Present birth rates are bringing too many people into the world. The planet is filling to carrying capacity. If people do not reduce the number of children they have, we will face serious environmental consequences. By choosing to limit the number of offspring we have, we reduce the burden on our resources to more sustainable levels, ensuring a better future for the children we do have.”

—http://www.populationconnection.org/

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.”

—Frank Herbert, Dune

Supportive Ideas:

Conservation

Energy Conservation

population stabilization

Opposing Ideas:

Anti-Environmentalism

Stop E-Waste

a mission (something you can do) posted by Taylor Mon, 2008-03-03 18:11

Groups: Environmentalism, Santa Barbara Infoshop, Environmentalism, Ethical Consumption

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