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POPSUnintended consequences will cook us! Radioactive materials in oil and gas drilling - makes sense but I expect no one gave it any thought. Glad I did not grow up next to Long Beach's oil fields. Then again, it could explain why honky tonk music out of Tulsa and Bakersfield is so hot!
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POPSAvoid Genetically Modified Organisms - Why? How. The why for me is simple. 1. GMO enables humans to rapidly alter an eco-system by introducing a new plant, insect, microbe, or animal population in large scales. When nature - the large system - senses over-population within any sub-system, it assumes something is wrong; out of balance. That triggers a reaction to restore balance, most often with what we call a disease, unintended consequence, or predator that acts to restore the balance. Humans make believe we are smarter than nature and can always "outsmart" nature. 2. GMO is dramatically different from traditional means of creating hybrids. Traditional creation of new hybrids takes enough time to see if unintended negative consequences were missed and enough time for the natural system to not over-react to a perceived imbalance.
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POPSPower to the Pedal People! Home of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts is also home to people powered hauling. college towns - gotta love em and it's my hometown too.
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POPSHow Many times Has Your Burger Been Nuked? Before you even get a chance to cook it too much or too little, it may have been irradiated numerous times because it's "cheaper" for them to nuke it instead of making sure the packing and grinding process is clean!
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POPSPlanet Killing Opps? Plastic Bags + Plankton = ? Talk about a major unintended consequence? Better start demanding quick switch to biodegradable plastic bags or how about carrying things in your own bags! Got to be one of the dumbest and laziest ways to kill our planet and ourselves!
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POPSThumb in Eye of Trashiest Eco-Corporate Terrorist! In the name of short term advantage, hoped-for-profit, and self-delusion many corporations are spending like crazy and lying up a storm to convince political leaders to be as dumb as they are. Here's a chance to point out who you think is the worst. My personal favorite is Monsanto with its Round-up ready genetically modified food. The crux of it is that thay are betting that they are smarter than nature and that flooding the world with round up (which originally debut in Viet Nam as Agent Orange) willdo us no harm and that nature will never figure out how to attack is monoculture crops. Go ahead and think about it a bit and then vote.
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POPSA Step Climber solution to watering crops - cool! Keep fit and water your crops at the same time - cool. Wonder if some savvy and mechanically inclined investor can buy up step climbers people no longer use - grin - or never really used and retro fit them - recycle - as water pumps for third world use!
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POPSRacism + White Nationalism = What % of Anti-Immigration Reform? It is going to be hard to figure this one, since John Tauton and his ilk have been practicing for more than ten years how to hide within and behind causes and organizations that seem to not be racist or white nationalists. The closer we get to real reform, the easier it will get - the specks of foam on their suits, the more outlandish their claims and the increase in hate crimes. The ugliest part will begin to resemble the break up of the former Yugoslavia - when people were urged to take part in torture and mass killings to serve the "cause" of ethnic cleansing.
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POPSHelp Save The World with Your Computer - Interested? Long ago, I participated in a global network doing computations for the genome project. Now you can lend your down time on your computer to fight AIDS, MS and work on clean energy. IBM is hosting. Window, Linux and Mac systems welcome!
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POPSUS 49% fish toxic - what do you think global toxicity is? We do not protect our water as well as we should but we do a better job than most of the areas we are importing fish from, I believe. Wonder if they sell portable kits so you could test your meal before ordering at Red Lobster is you still kill fish - er eat fish. Sorry, I am a vegan - grin.
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POPSWe Owe Veterans and Active Duty Warriors Better Than This Cheney's old firm let their sub-contractors expose US soldiers and Iraqi's to a burning toxic waste pit that will cause years worth of injuries and illness. Cotracting out is good for profiteers like the former- Vice President and his buddies but an evil brew for our troops.
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POPSWorld Economic Crisis = 30-50K more kids may die by 2010 I am worrying about paying property taxes, others are planning on buying less for Christmas, some are wondering what comes after unemployment runs out. Thousands of thousands of women in Sub-Sahara Africa are wondering which babies, if their baby will survive. If you knew one of the women, whose baby will probably die if nothing changes - what would you do? Sorry, I had to ask but I have to.
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POPSUS Troops Risk All for Safety of Chinese and USA imperialism? At first blush, the story sounds win-win: China "invests" in Afghanistan, hires out of work Afghans, helps stabilize economy. US troops make it safe for Chinese "private" company to exploit mineral resources. Exploit is the right word. Two thirds of the economies in the developing world are still structured by past imperialistic dictates to supply North America, Europe, and Japan with raw materials to make products for themselves and to sell worldwide are greater profit. So Afghan copper profits will go to Chinese banks and when copper runs out, what do Afghans have? In a number of African nations who have sold such rights to Chinese, they did not get the jobs either; the Chinese brought in Chinese workers. Imperialism 21st century style is no kinder than it was in 18th century.
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POPSMama said: "there'd be days like this." Hopeless Hopi What I like to know is where do you go to report a planetary rapist, pimps for Peabody Coal, and the ravaging of land held sacred for thousands of years by Hopi and Navajo who only walk with us as spirits now? The sickest of criminals and lifelong bullies are those who commit crimes against humanity just because they can - aka: Peabody Coal.
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POPSBrazil: Slash, burn and kill capitalism I know President Lula has hands full but the slash, burn and kill "cowboy" capitalists need some sort of lesson from the President to change their ways of have their holdings nationalized. Endangering people and the planet is no longer an option folks!
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POPSAmerican Companies Using Trafficked Labor So where's the list that the Department of Labor was supposed to draw together in 2005? Gee, it was here someplace. Maybe someone sent it to the wrong address? The dog ate it? I think someone spilled unfair traded coffee on it.
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POPSAgribusiness and British Government Pull GM Food Trick They will always have a good reason for trying to fool the public and nature with profit of their bosses, not the public or farmers at the root of their experiments. They may be able to fool the public but not nature - and therein lays the problem. When the incentive is profit, rather than safety, sustainability and system impact, then the risk of unexpected and perhaps crop killing consequences goes up!
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POPSDolphins do good without even trying - smile Great story of what a young girl learned from an encounter with a dolphin. Wouldn't it be nice if wannabe nature engineers "learned" as much from their encounters with nature. Then we wouldn't really have to worry about alligator-tomato mutants eating Cleveland.
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POPSRoundup May Harm Unborn Babies One of those unintended consequences or unforeseen effects because someone was focusing first on making a profit and killing/controlling "weeds" without wanting to also be sure that no other harm was caused to any living things.
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POPSCorporate Agi-Science a Planet Killer? The drive to get the world's farmers to be dependent forever on companies for seeds of people's basic cereal foods could open up world to first global crop failure! Do you want to risk that? Read up some on subject yourself and then you will join others with an OMG something has to be done - then do it!
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POPSMilwaukee Selling Water Birthright Cain would be proud of Milwaukee! Finally someone else is selling their birthright! The beer that made Milwaukee famous - you want someone else to own the water you make beer with?
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POPSSomething to Really Worry About - A New Form of Ebola How to humans normally get new forms of influenza? From birds to pigs, then to humans. How do people usually get ebola? Not quite sure but it is thought from primates (monkeys). So if pigs now have a new form of Ebola, do we have something to worry about? Yes! And watch carefully. Why? New flu used come out of South Asia, now - because of the global poultry and pork markets - it can come from anywhere. Get the point? Globalized markets means everything is now globalized faster, and faster, and...
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POPSEco-Car Show in London, UK Wandering up to City Hall on another Green Tour, we noticed the green, leafy park actually looked more like a car park. Then the penny dropped - Love London's off with a bang! Love London is London's annual green festival – three weeks of all kinds of activities, from workshops to help people make their communities greener, to recycled sculpture shows, to the World Naked Bike Ride :) Investigating a little more, it turned out we'd chanced across the Revolve Eco-Rally, meaning every vehicle there was some kind of awesome, high-tech eco-vehicle.
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POPSSlaughtering the Amazon and the Earth When you lace up your favorite pair of shoes, you could unknowingly be unraveling the Amazon rainforest. It turns out leather coming from the Amazon rainforest is being used to make a number of consumer products, perhaps even the Nike, Adidas, Timberland, or Reebok shoes you're wearing right now. Take Action NOW >> Tell Adidas, Nike and others that every step counts when it comes to saving the Amazon, so it’s time they step up.
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POPSExport your pollution by traveling to see nature! This has to be one of the most nonsensical, ironic bits of profit making for "good" that I've seen. You can travel thousands or even hundreds of miles to see nature, without doing it and yourself harm by the pollution created by your unnecessary travel!
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