Comments on: Climate Camps Vs. Suicide Pacts: The 100 Months’ War For Survival http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:17:34 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: sona http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575252 sona Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:21:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575252 <p>excuse me but coal is not pollution free and clean coal does not exist - resources wasted on capturing carbon from burning coal is better invested in developing alternatives - besides, what do you do if an earthquake releases all that carbon in one hit? pumping for coal is not very smart and we, as humans, are capable of being smart enough to solve our problems that we have created even if you, personally, are not</p> excuse me but coal is not pollution free and clean coal does not exist – resources wasted on capturing carbon from burning coal is better invested in developing alternatives – besides, what do you do if an earthquake releases all that carbon in one hit? pumping for coal is not very smart and we, as humans, are capable of being smart enough to solve our problems that we have created even if you, personally, are not

]]> By: victoria http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575220 victoria Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:47:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575220 <p>Individual conservation measures are important, but like spitting into the wonderful, energy-packed wind if we don’t have good policy. NOW. We don’t have the luxury of time any longer. We are at, what, about 400 PPM right now, and must get back to <350, fast. </p> <p>Great video here: <a href="http://www.350.org/en/animation" rel="nofollow">http://www.350.org/en/animation</a></p> Individual conservation measures are important, but like spitting into the wonderful, energy-packed wind if we don’t have good policy. NOW. We don’t have the luxury of time any longer. We are at, what, about 400 PPM right now, and must get back to <350, fast.

Great video here: http://www.350.org/en/animation

]]> By: victoria http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575217 victoria Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:43:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575217 <p>Essentially only doing laundry on sunny days and hanging wash on line. Dryer hasn’t been used in ages.</p> Essentially only doing laundry on sunny days and hanging wash on line. Dryer hasn’t been used in ages.

]]> By: victoria http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575212 victoria Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:37:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1575212 <p>Greenpeace Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniWdP0MO7s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniWdP0MO7s</a></p> <p>You Only Get What You Give. How can this fail to inspire?</p> Greenpeace Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniWdP0MO7s

You Only Get What You Give. How can this fail to inspire?

]]> By: tw3k http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574820 tw3k Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:44:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574820 <p>keep up the good work then. Just don’t look across the heartland.</p> keep up the good work then. Just don’t look across the heartland.

]]> By: tw3k http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574811 tw3k Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:40:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574811 <p>It’s not just the showcase McMansions tho it’s all the housing developments deisgned to consume from Big Carbon.</p> It’s not just the showcase McMansions tho it’s all the housing developments deisgned to consume from Big Carbon.

]]> By: CarolynU http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574799 CarolynU Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:35:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574799 <p>Don’t think so. We take it kind of seriously here. Don’t mistake my inability to adequately describe what’s going on as the measure of what people are doing to live sensibly - and sustainably here in Vermont. </p> <p>I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, we really take care of our surroundings. That’s why people travel from out of state or other countries to visit here, because we haven’t fucked it all up. Vermonters have always been stewards of the land, it only makes sense when the land give you life. And now we’re putting more thought and energy into it than ever before.</p> Don’t think so. We take it kind of seriously here. Don’t mistake my inability to adequately describe what’s going on as the measure of what people are doing to live sensibly – and sustainably here in Vermont.

I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, we really take care of our surroundings. That’s why people travel from out of state or other countries to visit here, because we haven’t fucked it all up. Vermonters have always been stewards of the land, it only makes sense when the land give you life. And now we’re putting more thought and energy into it than ever before.

]]> By: CarolynU http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574784 CarolynU Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:29:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574784 <p>Hey, we have our showplace homes here too. Enormous 8000 square foot mansions at the top of a mountain, all 40 foot ceilings and wall to ceiling glass to take in the views.</p> <p>My feeling: have fun heating them this winter. I bet they’ll increasingly be lying empty, in years to come. People will be huddling in good old fashioned new england farmhouses with low ceilings and fat wood stoves.</p> Hey, we have our showplace homes here too. Enormous 8000 square foot mansions at the top of a mountain, all 40 foot ceilings and wall to ceiling glass to take in the views.

My feeling: have fun heating them this winter. I bet they’ll increasingly be lying empty, in years to come. People will be huddling in good old fashioned new england farmhouses with low ceilings and fat wood stoves.

]]> By: tw3k http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574779 tw3k Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:28:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574779 <p>yup! Your “green” building in VT sound more like marketing hype than sustainable design.</p> yup! Your “green” building in VT sound more like marketing hype than sustainable design.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574775 dmac Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:27:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/climate-camps-vs-suicide-pacts-the-100-months-war-for-survival/#comment-1574775 <p>yep.</p> <p>forgot to mention, there are quite a few ’straw bale’ houses here, too.</p> yep.

forgot to mention, there are quite a few ’straw bale’ houses here, too.

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