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Earth overshoot day.

Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 10 months ago to Culture
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According to these econonsense no industry fanatics. We used up a years worth of resources by August 2nd the earliest ever according to this group. They say we need 1.7 earths to support our usage. It is likely subjective and meant to discourage production and consumption.

On the site they have a personal use calculator.
According to the calculator if everyone lived like I did , June 18 would be the date and We all would need 2.2 Earths.
What are the other gulchers resource calculations?

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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My wife is an early childhood educator and I call here a perfect roll model . Because she prepares for her lessons to create a learning experience that you would want for loved ones.
    She won't cut corners and always integrates her wisdom to improve the cognition.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have a (so I'm told) antique flip open cell phone carried primary for emergencies but prefer my to talk on my Vonage home phones (you get three) linked to my PC. Missed phoned messages appear in my email.
    When old dino was still in my prime and cell phones were a new novelty, if anyone who told me they would some day be used to make videos or even take a photo, I would have laughed in his/her face.
    Even the Star Truck communicators that inspired the invention of cell phones could not do that.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Might be a good idea, pointing out the absurdity within itself.
    Mankind has evolved from bicameral left brain only to an integrated two brained conscious being, (maybe 50% of us anyway), and that's not the end of the story either. In order to evolve we must experience, we were never destine to be stagnate creatures, what is good for us today may not be tomorrow. We might go the hydrogen route in the future only to find we've too much, expelled too much oxygen and tipped the balance of nature and on and on.
    The key, is to learn from our experience while not putting all our eggs in one basket and being open, not reactionary, to what happens, what is and collect all the time tested truths we find along the way.
    After all, there would be no point or purpose to existence if not for an awareness of it, participation within it and ultimately, a perpetuation of it.
    We also must take heart that if all this was to be so damn easy there would of been no need for forgiveness, the learning process, successes nor failures...it's just the way things are...get over it, live it and for pete sakes...enjoy it.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for the advice. The environmental literacy is not an easy issue for me. There is a valid basis based on free radicals (an Organic Chemistry 2 concept) for ozone depletion. Ozone was at one point depleted, and has partially repaired itself; however the time scale for such repair is on the 50-100 year timeframe. There are plenty of verifiable facts to teach regarding environmental literacy, and ... there is an overwhelming amount of myth.

    I always tell my students to verify everything for themselves.
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  • Posted by Lucky 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    However absurd an idea that you introduce in class, a good many students will accept it.
    If you want to try, give some clues so there is no loss of face when the the correct conclusion comes out.

    Your course in environmental literacy- you may like this about a prof who teaches journalism, he gets his students to check on claims. This often does not require 'science' as much as honesty.

    http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/20...
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 10 months ago
    I think I beat you by a few years cause of all the drag and road racing I did...(on and Off track!) laughing...back in those days, I did everything at 200mph...except of course, my time with the ladies!
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 10 months ago
    In October, I teach a week of environmental literacy to my Intro to Chemical Engineering students. I teach it as objectively as possible, including a question about how much extra, on a percentage basis, that they would be willing to be to pay for energy that had no environmental impact whatsoever.

    Should I have students take the Earth Overshoot Day questionnaire as a homework assignment to introduce a little more humor into the class? Would it illustrate absurdity by being absurd, or ... would some people actually take it seriously?
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "...stronger more numerous quantumly entangled connections..." and "Elite on the Streets" +1

    Oh, just to stay on topic, I'm sure I must have overshot an earth or two by the time I was 25 and we're still here!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They? Is that a shoulder I saw? Yeah, so maybe there were two other guys on that boat.
    They coulda helped out but it seems shooting a video of a "friend's(?)" embarrassment for YouTube is far more important these days.
    I've seen videos of people seriously hurt with bystanders only caring about making video recordings of any incident.
    Bystanders with assorted video devices have become no better than the paparazzi.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You sure?
    When the waiter/waitress/Pepin or whomever presents the check, I'll be crossing my little allosaur arms and whistling Dixie.
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