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he highest rates of growth – global population increases above 1.8% per year – were seen briefly during the 1950s, and for a longer period during the 1960s and 1970s. The growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, then declined to below 1.1% by 2012.[7] Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 138 million,[8] and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 134 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.[9]
I see the anti-green living posters are still alive and well on the green living thread. Man, this forum needs a sticky.
OP: Get involved in an organization in your area. Take Action to Protect Rivers & Lakes | Freshwater Conservation | The Nature Conservancy
Here is a site full of things you can do if you are interested in preserving fresh water. Don't worry about the nay-sayers, just put them on your personal ignore list. It can't hurt to assume you need to live a clean life with less of a foot print. Even if all the information you get is wrong and our fresh water is not in danger, at least you are living less of a damaging life to nature and not polluting your environment. That's a good thing.
You're fools to believe you can change another human beings God given right to have a child.
Or save the world with "Green" BS,they are false economies selling you on "we are better than you" because ...
It's ludicrous, move on with you're lives people,it's too dam short to worry about this BS...
You're fools to believe you can change another human beings God given right to have a child.
Or save the world with "Green" BS,they are false economies selling you on "we are better than you" because ...
It's ludicrous, move on with you're lives people,it's too dam short to worry about this BS...
So, the atheist forum has an awesome policy where they delete posts by users who try to tell them that they're going to hell or try to convert them. I suggest that this forum have a similar policy.
It's not really a Green Living forum. It's a forum where people ask questions about environmental issues and a bunch of losers come by and insult them.
So, the atheist forum has an awesome policy where they delete posts by users who try to tell them that they're going to hell or try to convert them. I suggest that this forum have a similar policy.
It's not really a Green Living forum. It's a forum where people ask questions about environmental issues and a bunch of losers come by and insult them.
No. There are a number of posts that are fairly obviously by people who have drunk the corporate and extremist kool-aid that certain actions are "green" and good, and others are evil. There used to be some quality and integrity when environmentalists were fighting the major battles, like getting lead out of gasoline, stopping the dumping of PCBs, and other horrendous practices. I applaud those efforts.
What has happened more recently is that environmentalism has turned in part into a flaky religion, where science and logic are lost to the idea of saving anything cute and furry and claiming that humans have no place on the planet. Such is common in second or third generation movements of any kind. Certain values get lifted to Godhead status and competition to that is quashed.
To use your own metaphor, you are asking for the removal of posts of those who do not think we are going to hell in accordance with the dictates of the "green" religion.
Want to help stop global warming? Start from your home. The biggest step you can take to save the environment is to control of your energy costs, save water and make your home more comfortable and healthy.
You are far too impressionable and willing to listen to spoiled children with a guilt complex, whose only motivation is resentment against people who live better than they do (usually through their own efforts), and whose principal goal is to hamper us all by building a bigger bureaucracy.
Pick up the trash known as environmentalism, and flush it down the nearest toilet.
Hi,
Currently I am in the North Indian city of Rishikesh. Last month due to extreme rainfall the Ganges river over flood. The city, and many around it were almost submerged. Few thousands were dead and the infrastructure damage is irreplaceable. It is estimated that it will take the state government 30-50 years to get the system back on track.
However life goes on. This place is a hippie haven, a major tourist attraction and the yoga capital of the world. The people on the streets are thankful but that is it. And I don't blame them....who really cares right?
One of my friends sent me an email which went like this:
Rishi,
I just asked a holistically thinking engineer: "How do you perceive the "reality" of theTehri Dam lake risk? The Indian government is giving alerts as the lake's water level is so high and might flood Rishikesh, Haridwar etc. Even Delhi would be affected. Is that a realistic scenario?"
Answer: "The risk is not there at present. But in some later future, we cannot predict about earth's requirement to neutralise the weight created by humans in concentrated spots, imbalancing the earth movement and energies.I would give 50-100 years for that."
Somehow I am worried. The calamity around me has hit hard. I was always into living green. I don't even drive, but now that I am so near to everything it effects me.
But what can I do?
Logically speaking. I am a scriptwriter and write for movies here in bollywood. I have ideas of making a film like Chinatown with the dam issue in the foreground but those are just dreams.
I could come to study something in school again...perhaps environmental science and go from there. Right now money isn't really a concern. I mean I want to earn but I hardly live like a king. But if I dedicate my life to this passion, I think it will make me more happier.
I don't know much about India, except that poor people still live in shacks and poop in the Ghanges. Before you go worrying about recycling your Birkenstocks, maybe you should work on some plumbing issues.
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Man, this forum needs a sticky. 
