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Food costs do not include huge externalities
You assert cheaper implies lower footprint as a rule of thumb, but that's patently absurd. There's no cost to the producer for emitting greenhouse gases, losing topsoil, antibiotic abuse, fertilizer and pesticide runoff or habitat loss. Until there's a carbon tax, restructuring of agricultural incentives, and strict control of pollution laws, the ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by joehopfield on November 10, 2009
Global Warming or Gullible Warming
I am sure that the weather has cycles within cycles within cycles. We have only been keeping records of the weather and temperatures for around 100 years. Now the media would have us believe that within 30 years the planet will be so hot that we will all be dead from famine. If the globe is warming it is not happening around here. If it weren't ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by anitabo on November 6, 2009
Warren Buffett is Warren Buffett...
But I said that myself back before there was an AOL. When I first went online with Compuserve and Prodigy and emailed people back in the early 90s shortly after moving to Atlanta, I said this is going to kill the newspaper industry, save trees and increase global warming due to radiation toxicology, which we can only hope that having more trees ...
Posted to Press Box by sspsllc on April 28, 2009
AIG and GM: A Double Standard
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. We bail out AIG and they use the money to make good on the credit default swaps they insured. (Although they didn’t call it insurance!) A lot of this money has gone to banks in foreign countries. When it comes to GM, we want to force them into bankruptcy, which means a massive loss of jobs for blue and white ...
Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on March 30, 2009
Re: What no one mentions
Oh yeah! I remember that! The way we were all on the edge of our seats back in 2000, waiting anxiously for the result of the election, to see if it was war or not. I sat there with my shotgun across my lap, caressing it. ''Nobody's gonna take you from me baby.'' The instant it GW started his concession speech, I was gonna head straight across ...
Posted to Fighting Words by enfermot on January 19, 2009
Role Models
I don't see that it's necessarily ''bad'' to choose Einstein as a scientific role model... an intriguing, brilliant, wholly human thinker who changed the scientific landscape. And the wording you provide is that the question is about scientific ''role models'' so, for the average person who isn't going to be (and doesn't want to be) a scientist, ...
Posted to Science by fncll on January 16, 2009
Hari's Flaw: Exempt Capitalism, but Heyduke Lives!
Excluding the industrial era of communism as one of the worst eras for environmental concerns wherein the Aral Sea, Caspian, and Black seas were nearly all destroyed as a result, Hari failed to extend his theories to the fundamental ideological basis of environmental impact over the past 200 years. Industrialization and modernization were given ...
Posted to Books by Usama3 on January 13, 2009
Yeah - Except, these guys ain't geniuses.
Gawd - I hate simplistic thinking! First of all Al Gore is not a techno-geek - he is a gee-wiz parrot of science written for laymen. His journalist background qualifies him to read about science - not to understand it. He may know how to spell chlorofluorocarbon, but that's about as far as he gets. Someday, we'll all be wondering how anyone ...
Posted to The Big Idea by Willisintampa on November 17, 2008
Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections
Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008
Is Landsburg for real?
As with any of Professor Landsburg’s arguments, the logic is impeccable, he’s a clever chap. But as with any logical derivation, it is the initial assumptions from which the conclusions are drawn about which we should be wary. In the case of this article, the implicit assumption revolves around just exactly who counts in future generations. The ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by moresexplease on September 15, 2008

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