although i am opposed to trading carbon offset credits on the open market (see this post for the reasons why), today i accepted Brighter Planet’s 350 Challenge and added the badge to my blog. why? because this is, as BP freely acknowledges, simply a way to focus attention on the growing threat of climate change. this blog, in and of itself, is using neither more nor less carbon than it used before i posted the badge; however, the badge itself is a call for change that others may see, acknowledge, act on and propagate.
350.org, the inspiration behind Brighter Planet’s badge program, is an online agent for positive environmental change. i urge you to visit, sign up, brainstorm and perhaps start an action of your own. i’ve got one in mind that will get rolling as soon as i am able to make the time.
still, i am about to unnecessarily burn a bit of carbon this morning by driving to a memorial service that i would prefer not to attend. why not? it’s a family thing. the woman being memorialized was my first cousin and, at this point in our (mid)lives, a near-total stranger. i’d laid eyes on her exactly twice in the last twenty-something years, and spoke to her on the phone exactly never. she was a good and friendly woman, it’s not that we didn’t get along, it’s simply that our lives and interests did not intersect. we might have passed each other on the street without knowing it — unlikely, though, as we lived a few thousand miles apart.
so why am i going? quite simply because, if i don’t, i will be in a world of shit with my aging father, who will take it as a personal slight. why am i dreading going? because there will be other cousins in attendance whom i would rather not see. cousins whom, if they were afire, i would not spare the piss to quench. in short, it’s not likely to be an especially pleasant day, and the fact that i’ve got to waste gasoline to do it is just an extra spoonful of sadplanet icing on the cake.
but hey, i got my badge.
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I just fell in love with you. I believe this evening will be quite sleepless as I read each of your posts. Refreshing
Welcome to her blog directory thanks for the ’support’. I stumbled I read I fell in love !
~K
“cousins whom, if they were afire, i would not spare the piss to quench.”
Can I tell you how much I love the structure of this sentence?
Am Communist Party wrote a book, “We will never surrender” (named = but historical analysis of old austria hungary, was sold in few copies)
Completion
We can not survive without neoliberalism (am project = information, force, its own responsibility, etc).
Sex, violence and work.
Then, it is the Jewish question - many Jews in the labour movement (selling in intellectual solutions that kommunistpacket today “mass empty words without substance”).
The same mentality today = perhaps that nature is moving towards eradication. The control of some media - and similar organizations.
The Devil’s people (easy on eliminating).
Count 1 million times
What gave nybyggaranda etc
Spider, which can kill judgement
It was a jew girl who now is named Rebecca Lord
She was not horny, but well on the crafty manipulation of others (Rebecca mata hari).
She was fitted and dejected, but one day she committed suicide.
Then came a klumpedunsröv from israeli higher uni, Haifa, and would learn empiricism but then struck schizopartikeln to, and it scratched at the robber and he pulled out a hemorojd
it was shown to contain a worm that later destroyed a large part of the human world
it was late in the history books
astroillium israelis
particle =
nervous system has, of course, new data on databasförmåga (activates when the schizophrenia of us)
Tex send nano-robots and religious cultural context and play on (socialpsykologi) and then endanger humanity
threat to humanity
when you sit in a solitary confinement (by 1000 mdr who really would gone to the West-am project) and attackhund who rapes and våldsmusik
Chinese-Chinese person who he said
now gaining ground, we manchuriet
so hästarmén who was genklonad
and sold his Old Norse kýr
it turned out later that he was a little underestimated
so it impoterade a cow
(vv spread on)
Brainlaw for optional (energy used right tex alpha waves)
Props in EUrope
Obama = optional, and be able to govern, one should say have 300 iqpoäng otherwise is not optional.
Individuals should be able to control the environment (cf. chosen best in the past to defend the stem end, but today also the environment, science, art, personalities, creativity and above all the complexity).
Set is most important (based on 300 and a superstructure)
We would introduce the following countries
http://strikeforcevetansvarreligionen.blogspot.com/
Badges?! Badges?! We don’t need no stinkin’ badges. What we need to do is drive less and drive slower. Turn off lights when you leave a room. Take your shower with a friend. Recycle. And, if you can, plant a tree now and them.
Little things add up. And if you don’t believe me, you can kiss my ass.
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