"Now you're growing up some more and learning that, underneath everything, there really is a deep sanity and happiness after all."
Hmm. I'll reserve judgment on that one. Still, I did wake up having slept poorly after having had an upsetting exchange with another comment poster. (Not here, I hasten to add. Most people here seem a little more chilled.) I decided that day to avoid the internet for a while. So it didn't go on until 5 in the afternoon.
In the middle of that night I got up and wrote down, "I need to break away from the unrelenting misery!"
Yes, it is all fake. Fake reasons for war. Fake reasons for lockdown and fake reasons for reducing CO2 emissions. Someone always benefits: the MIC, Big Pharma and the Green Energy corporations.
I know, some here believe in the climate change scam. Well I don't. I'm not anti conservation. I want plastics to be taken from our oceans. I want to preserve the rainforests. But I also want to preserve traditional farming practices. Selfish virtue signalling vegans want to impose their religion on us all. The media is now telling us we must all eat insects to save the planet. Ireland is contemplating paying farmers to cull their cows to reduce CO2 emissions. If you believe in all this all I can say is, wake up, for God's sake!! It's a con - follow the money!
In Scotland it was reported in 2020 that 14 million trees had been cut down to build wind farms. Go figure!
some years ago, i a novice to environmentalism had one of those aha! moments reading about three ways in which human beings (society) relate to the nature: 1) the nature as the object/resource to use, 2) the nature as the object to protect from human disruptions and extractions, and 3) the nature as the environment in which human beings (can and should) exist as its organic part. the author observed the native amazonians have lived as part of the nature for a long long time while the "civilized" societies miserably failed in "managing the nature from the 1) and 2) perspectives". mother nature including the micro-biological world continues to prove to be infinitely more complex and intricate than what human engineering can imagine, manage, change, or improve.
Interesting. Unfortunately, we are a very destructive species.
I personally do not view the "exploitation" of animals for food and clothing as bad in and of themselves. What is bad is the cynical exploitation of animals for profit.
I once experimented with vegetarianism, but abandoned it. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with eating meat. We are not the only species to do that. Similarly, I don't think there is anything wrong with drinking cows milk and eating cheese and eggs.
The key for me is attitudinal. Food is a gift of nature and to be respected.
consumption or the way of life can and should be need-based as opposed to profit-driven, i'm sure you agree. i suspect the natives like amazonians eat whatever they find (and maybe cultivate in their own way) in their environment. i'm a lifetime (since 6yo) vegetarian but it's my personal taste, not a philosophical or moral stand.
"Now you're growing up some more and learning that, underneath everything, there really is a deep sanity and happiness after all."
Hmm. I'll reserve judgment on that one. Still, I did wake up having slept poorly after having had an upsetting exchange with another comment poster. (Not here, I hasten to add. Most people here seem a little more chilled.) I decided that day to avoid the internet for a while. So it didn't go on until 5 in the afternoon.
In the middle of that night I got up and wrote down, "I need to break away from the unrelenting misery!"
Yes, it is all fake. Fake reasons for war. Fake reasons for lockdown and fake reasons for reducing CO2 emissions. Someone always benefits: the MIC, Big Pharma and the Green Energy corporations.
I know, some here believe in the climate change scam. Well I don't. I'm not anti conservation. I want plastics to be taken from our oceans. I want to preserve the rainforests. But I also want to preserve traditional farming practices. Selfish virtue signalling vegans want to impose their religion on us all. The media is now telling us we must all eat insects to save the planet. Ireland is contemplating paying farmers to cull their cows to reduce CO2 emissions. If you believe in all this all I can say is, wake up, for God's sake!! It's a con - follow the money!
In Scotland it was reported in 2020 that 14 million trees had been cut down to build wind farms. Go figure!
some years ago, i a novice to environmentalism had one of those aha! moments reading about three ways in which human beings (society) relate to the nature: 1) the nature as the object/resource to use, 2) the nature as the object to protect from human disruptions and extractions, and 3) the nature as the environment in which human beings (can and should) exist as its organic part. the author observed the native amazonians have lived as part of the nature for a long long time while the "civilized" societies miserably failed in "managing the nature from the 1) and 2) perspectives". mother nature including the micro-biological world continues to prove to be infinitely more complex and intricate than what human engineering can imagine, manage, change, or improve.
Interesting. Unfortunately, we are a very destructive species.
I personally do not view the "exploitation" of animals for food and clothing as bad in and of themselves. What is bad is the cynical exploitation of animals for profit.
I once experimented with vegetarianism, but abandoned it. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with eating meat. We are not the only species to do that. Similarly, I don't think there is anything wrong with drinking cows milk and eating cheese and eggs.
The key for me is attitudinal. Food is a gift of nature and to be respected.
consumption or the way of life can and should be need-based as opposed to profit-driven, i'm sure you agree. i suspect the natives like amazonians eat whatever they find (and maybe cultivate in their own way) in their environment. i'm a lifetime (since 6yo) vegetarian but it's my personal taste, not a philosophical or moral stand.