Reply #64: Military is largest user of oil --

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Public transportation has the power to take almost ALL cars off the roads --

NOT a minimal thing!

Many people take showers heated with solar energy --

The sidewalks are getting hot enough to brew coffee and heat a tamale --

In fact, put some tea bags out in a jar of water and you'll get TEA!

"Meat" for lunch? Do you understand the impact animal-eating has on the planet?

If you stand still long enough, you're in danger of having someone come along and

cover you in plastic --

The meat I bought was covered in plastic and on a Styrofoam tray... came packed that way from the plant, where again electricity was used to process this. The turkeys were in an industrial facility that used pretty much a lot of fuel to take care of them, and transported them on trucks to the slaughter facility and from there to the processing facility.

Look how much of this you could skip if you stuck just with veggies -- !!

The vegies that went into the stew, I bought the other day at the farmer's market, where they had to be driven to, and where I had to drive too. They are locally grown and you and I can enter the argument on whether this is a good idea or not... but still fuel was used to process, and to transport. End of story.

Farmer's market and LOCAL production is an improvement on huge grocery chains and food dragged

from Peru, Mexico and Guatemala. PLUS if it was organic food then no petroleum based fertilizer

was thrown all over it!

You could have bought some plum tomatoes while you were at the farmer's market and sauteed them -

again skipping all you describe to deliver a jar of Marinara sauce to you!

Agree -- we need a total change in culture -- begin with patriarchy "the bird with one wing" --

let's overturn capitalism -- the core of which is exploitation of nature and humans!

Note that last time in 1992 Scientists held a press conference to WARN HUMANITY re Global Warming

and the cultural change that had to happen to address it, the press was silent -- absolutely

silent on it!


Nadin, who don't expect this to make a tinker's damn of a difference anyway.

Nadin -- there are many obvious changes you can make -- and we can all make -- to overcome

just the things you've discussed!

And, of course, we need our government to be encouraging production of electric cars!!

And, alternative forms of energy --