Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Global Climate Change, Etc.

I support:


carbon taxing (including taxing gasoline/other fossil fuels to rapidly get them to $8++/gallon);


conservation, efficiency; ecological economics/pricing schemes to reduce electrical usage;


policy/practices to increase Natural stable soil organic matter (increase the fixing of carbon/carbon dioxide into living organisms/complex organic compounds);


policy/practices to increase the Natural health of worldwide bays, estuaries,and other rich biotic areas of the ocean (and hopefully to increase fixing carbon/carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate and related compounds);


biodiversity;


small (homes, work places, farms, ...) and slow (buses, trains, ...);


weaning ourselves from conventional hot water heaters, clothes dryers, air-conditioning, lighting;


Nature, rural and small towns vs. urban/suburban;


policy-programs to move toward more walking/bicycling/mass transport and ridding the world of automobiles;


moving to an ecologically-sound steady-state economy; an anti-stimulus package; much of what is in the Green Party platform;

policies/actions that redistribute wealth/power toward the poor/powerless of the world;


policies for retrofitting the homes of the poor toward efficiency and conservation of energy;


small local neighborhood/rural schools that develop local and global ecological literacy in a holistic/transdisciplinary; hands-on fashion;


policies/programs for local food/fiber/shelter production/processing;


universal health care;


not dwelling on how much better others are than we are (because we are truly "the same");


a diversity of robust scientific endeavors/policy approaches that attempt to deal with the complexity of what we need to know for good socio-political/economic (ecological) decisions (because we know so little);


scientific research results, policy proposals, opinions that are written succinctly and well, and that are published in referred journals;


local community action, collaboration and "stick-to-itness";


critical thinking that is holistically based on ecological principles/processes;


my spouse, my kids, my extended family, many cultural traditions/customs, sense of place and community, Natural spirituality;


prudence;


caution and tentativeness;


humility
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