What, exactly, is the world coming to? How worried, precisely, should we be about the state of our climate, our energy system, our food supplies, our water, the air we breath? What really is — or might soon — be the problem with any of these?
It’s hard to keep track and easy to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pollution’
- confused this Earth Day?
Posted in environmentalism, policy, political action, tagged consumer culture, corporations, eco-anxiety, energy, food, global warming, health, pollution, resources, water on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- to pollute is to sin, says the Vatican
Posted in religion, tagged pollution, quaker, vatican on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Being a Quaker means believing that clergies are more of a hinderance than a help when it comes to leading a righteous spiritual life. And for a case study in the convoluted, self-sustaining theological bureaucracies that clergies happily make for themselves, it would be hard to beat the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary — a [...]
against golf — a trend that’s growing
Posted in leisure, tagged America, fiscal policy, golf, leisure, pollution, tax, water on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s always struck us EarthQuakers as odd that golfers have long been allowed to portray their sport as beneficial to the environment. Golf course owners are adept, for example, at receiving tax breaks, on the grounds that they protect ‘green’ space.
For sure, the first golf courses were relatively low impact. They were [...]
