Comments on: Downshifting Hijacked by the Green Movement http://bassdrumbooks.com/blog1/2007/04/22/downshifting-hijacked-by-the-green-movement-2/ A family chose a different lifestyle... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:29:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Administrator http://bassdrumbooks.com/blog1/2007/04/22/downshifting-hijacked-by-the-green-movement-2/#comment-1350 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:00:53 +0000 http://bassdrumbooks.com/blog1/2007/04/22/downshifting-hijacked-by-the-green-movement-2/#comment-1350 Sorry about the delay in accepting this post. We are getting so many spam posts that it is difficult to sort it all out. Many good points here and even though I am green and put green policies into effect around our home, I think it is definitely the case that there is a lot of nonsense talked by the green movement generally and in many cases they get it wrong so that we end up expending more energy and valuable resources implementing non sustainable green ideas. Sorry about the delay in accepting this post. We are getting so many spam posts that it is difficult to sort it all out. Many good points here and even though I am green and put green policies into effect around our home, I think it is definitely the case that there is a lot of nonsense talked by the green movement generally and in many cases they get it wrong so that we end up expending more energy and valuable resources implementing non sustainable green ideas.

]]> by: iritana http://bassdrumbooks.com/blog1/2007/04/22/downshifting-hijacked-by-the-green-movement-2/#comment-1109 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:30:17 +0000 http://bassdrumbooks.com/blog1/2007/04/22/downshifting-hijacked-by-the-green-movement-2/#comment-1109 HOORAY! A SANE person! Some notes on GREEN that get right to the heart of the matter, YES, 'expensive' it sure is. Especially as it is expensively WRONG! I understand solar needs several times the land area of the city to run it. And only during daylight summer hours. Covering valleys in silicon is not green! But if you really do think so why not ACTUALLY ‘do it’ instead of being against just about everything. Like, start a company / venture fund to deliver EXACTLY the thing you like (On time and at a cheaper price mind!) Also other planets in the solar system have ice cap shrinkage at this time. Did WE cause that? I doubt it. Ethanol needs hundreds/thousands/millions of times MORE land horizontally in every direction than vertical mining or drilling: and drives up the price of food for the poor. What is the good of that? Ever hear that SOME glaciers are GROWING, on the shady sides of mountains. And that EASTERN antarctic ice is THICKER by hundreds of feet. HOORAY! A SANE person!
Some notes on GREEN that get right to the heart of the matter, YES, ‘expensive’ it sure is. Especially as it is expensively WRONG!

I understand solar needs several times the land area of the city to run it. And only during daylight summer hours. Covering valleys in silicon is not green! But if you really do think so why not ACTUALLY ‘do it’ instead of being against just about everything.
Like, start a company / venture fund to deliver EXACTLY the thing you like (On time and at a cheaper price mind!)
Also other planets in the solar system have ice cap shrinkage at this time. Did WE cause that? I doubt it.
Ethanol needs hundreds/thousands/millions of times MORE land horizontally in every direction than vertical mining or drilling: and drives up the price of food for the poor. What is the good of that?

Ever hear that SOME glaciers are GROWING, on the shady sides of mountains. And that EASTERN antarctic ice is THICKER by hundreds of feet.

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