“A Friend Of The Earth”
by T.C.Boyle
Futuristic funny, fantasy, realistic, amusing, and a little scary. Great writing. From the jacket:
“It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals — not to mention fish, birds, and frogs — are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living...
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Like fish? Like filet of Sole? Know what that is? And where it comes from?
A good resource for fish information is the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and they state the following:
“Some Atlantic flounder species are sold as sole; however, “true” sole only occur in the Pacific Ocean.
Many different species of flatfish live off the Atlantic coast...
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Saving for some, cost increase for others. But simple.
Require an easy-to-obtain physician’s prescription (infinitely renewable) in order to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products.
Require all tobacco product sales outlets to sell only to prescription holders.
Adjust prescription holders’ health care premiums to reflect their smoking habits.
End.
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What does the First World War, and the current Conservative and Liberal congressional polarization, plus the continuation of the war in Afghanistan, all have in common with the First World War? The answer: new technology. Here’s how.
To be specific, it’s the trench warfare of the First World War, or as it was called then, The World...
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CO2 reduction – what’s the fuss about?
Quality of life, vs. standard of living. In effect, developing nations are asking the “developed” nations to consider their predicament, that of playing catchup in standard of living while restraining the production of CO2.
Increased production of CO2 is necessary to maintain standard of living, but not necessary to...
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By James Gustave Speth
This book should be called, “A Review of Current Literature Regarding Sustainability.” With the alluring subtitle, “Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability,” Speth’s work has little in the way of original thought. It is, after all, published by an academic press, Yale, and reads like it.
Regardless of the number...
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