"an inconvenient truth"

[Dennis Mac Leod]

    Part of the problem is that in a lot of cases we don't pay  the true costs of our economic decisions.  Some costs are moved to society  as a whole, or to government, or to future generations.  This makes some  products, services, or processes look cheaper than others, but in the end the less  expensive choice ends up costing us all much more!
  
  Dennis
  
    

Jo Clute <josepi at doitnow.com> wrote:         v\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) }    st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                      This so sounds like John Stossel's "Give me a   break".   One of my favorite books.  I agree with you 100%.    Until then lets just hope this movie actually effects normal people to just act   within their own capabilities:, effecting the market by deciding where to spend   their own money. (buying from local producers, not buying inneficient cars,    buying the right lightbulb, buying the tankless waterheater..... free   market moves a helluva lot quicker than politics.  Walmart's are taking   over the planet because we shop there 24/7
   
  I do know that up until I saw it, my building   decisions were based on economy and not morality.  That has shifted.    Its expensive to put dual cooling in.  Now it just has to happen.  And   one can usually never recoup an investment of higher than average insulation in   a home.  But now, it just has to be done.  The legacy of the structure   can not contribute to,  in theory or otherwise, the continued erosion of   the earth's natural balance.
   
  on PBS a few weeks ago, I saw, that during 911,   when all the planes were grounded for those three days, climatologists measured   the earth's average temperature and found that it actually rose three degrees   during this time.  The explanation is that the particulates and pollution   emanating from all of the aircraft in the air actually refracted some of   the sun's radiation-hence cooling the earth.  So, ironically,   it is the world's pollution that is keeping the temperature   down.  But on the flip side, decreasing pollution must coincide with   decreasing green house gases otherwise, the "actual" temperature increases of   the earths global temperature will show its true reading which would be even   higher had the pollution not existed.  
   
  I always use to joke and say well, nothing really   matters when it comes to the evolution of the human species a million years from   now. But '50 years from now' is no inconceivable evolution., That is with in my   lifetime.  We will actually see this happen.  The most devastating   thing about this movie, in my opinion, is that we have the technology today to   end it.  and more irony?.......The American auto manufacturers are actually   losing money and consequently  doing huge layoffs (hurting our national   economy) because they are acting "immorally" and using irresponsible   technology  AND maintaining our dependence on oil, foreign   or otherwise.  But for why?  I mean,how much frickin money does   one human being  (i, e, a ceo of these conglomerates) need to where it   costs a community their entire work force, the nation, a unbalance of   trade, which pushes us to seek cheap labor from other countries to compensate,   and more importantly our earth's very
 stability.  I am not a doomsday-er, I   believe it can be fixed, but if not with little ol' us,then who?  We just   don't have time to sit and wait for policy, we need to act with our own pocket   books starting now.
   
  Please please go see this movie :-)
   
  Clute
   
   
   
  www.climatecrisis.net 
      ----- Original Message ----- 
    From:     Wayne Murray 
    To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info     
    Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:02     AM
    Subject: RE: "an inconvenient   truth"
    

        The future is humans     living in urban centers, and in energy efficient, environmentaly friendly     sustainable high rises.  The only way that it is going to happen is if     developers are encouraged to move the US towards this lifestyle.  It     will not be easy and it may also take a generational adjustment.  In a     free country it is the developer and businessman who brings about this change     in the most cost effective using market analysis to determine the desire and     need.  NOT the government.
     
    At a recent meeting     it was suggested that governmental incentive money be spent to bring in     residential retail downtowm.  The government will certainly get its money     from the people who make profit.  Why not leave the developer free to     keep his profits and build the high-rises and fill downtown with people who     “live” not visit for a game or ASU.
     
    If there are     govenmnetal incentives to build businesses, the kinds of businesses requiring     people to make them successful will not be there,  Remember the     Mercado?
     
    If left to the market     the large number of people living downtown will be the “incentive” for     business (the good kind) to open their doors and better yet to stay in     business

hey and it didn’t cost the government anything but the “do gooder     politicians” who would have set up the incentive     zones.
     
    W
     
            
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    From:     central-city-discuss-bounces at gcna.info     [mailto:central-city-discuss-bounces at gcna.info] On Behalf Of Jo Clute
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:37     AM
To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
Cc: Sherilyn Orr
Subject: "an inconvenient     truth"

     
        I can honestly say-that in my own     life-I have never been so altered, so overwrought-so permanently     transitioned-and now, so inspired to change the way I live,, as I am     after seeing this movie-An Inconvenient Truth.      

         

        Its a life changing experience,     one that you can't recover from, --at all     costs--.

         

        It has created a new degree of     intensity in my plight for urban living, building responsibly, buying local,     riding bikes, just being home.....

         

        Please PLEASE go see this     movie.

         

         

        www.climatecrisis.net     


        

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