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  • Typical American Motorhead POV

    Next time you visit Belarus try getting around by bicycle instead of ''spanking-new BMW''. You'll see a whole different world and you won't contribute to the decay of their society. Plus you'll get a better idea of why Belarus is a paradigm for sustainable development [onearth.org].
    Posted to Foreigners by John Roseman on October 4, 2008

  • Why aren't we seeing any suicides on Wall Street?

    It's not because the windows in modern skyscrapers don't open. It's because narcissism has evolved to the status of godliness and being above the law...or knowing someone or something that could get you out of the self-created trouble (really an unspoken code among the 'owners' of the country who bail each other out when found out). For this, ...
    Posted to Explainer by Poncia on September 23, 2008

  • Personal responsibility, people?

    This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
    Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008

  • Regarding the Wall-E article...

    ''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
    Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008

  • Fat enough

    I couldn't even finish this article. I am sure that some people can't help being fat. All your science aside I have known many people that went from an active lifestyle to an inactive one and gained a lot of weight. Period. If you don't care enough about your own body to eat right, exercise, and generally take care of the one and only thing in ...
    Posted to Green Room by digitalmonkeys on July 11, 2008

  • Re: article got it wrong

    I agree that this article got it wrong - though in a rather different sense. The movie itself does not blame obesity for the world's collapse, but rather blind consumerism. If you watch the ''Buy 'N' Large'' commercials in the film and take a look at the portraits in the captain's chambers, you'll notice that they are images of rather trim ...
    Posted to Green Room by ceciliasnightingale on July 11, 2008

  • Seriously? That's What You Got Out Of Wall-E?

    Equating obesity with environmental collapse? Wall-E is a story about consumerism not obesity. It's about a government run by the CEO of a retail chain and how profits and ecology usually don't get along so well. It's a cautionary tale about how blindly following a corporate entity that insists it can provide everything people need to exist by ...
    Posted to Green Room by Freddy-D on July 11, 2008

  • Overconsumption, Wastage, and Corporate America

    Admit it! We're played everyday by billion dollar marketing campaigns encouraging us to buy, buy, buy; eat, eat, eat, and drive, drive, drive!
    Posted to Green Room by Seamus08 on July 11, 2008

  • Bad Genetics?

    All right, the connection between obesity and environment is wrong. But if your thesis that obesity is 80% caused by genetics is correct, how comes that the US are the fattest country in the world? Just a lot of people with bad DNA? I think you grossly underestimades the effect that modern US lifestyle has on people with a predisposition to gain ...
    Posted to Green Room by Giuliano974 on July 11, 2008

  • Re: Myth of the Noble Savage

    I don't know that the view of society in Star Trek is an accurate predictor of the future. I do agree (or hope?) that it's closer to the truth than Wall-E. The thing to remember is that humans in Wall-E devolved into blobs mostly because the robots are programmed to give them everything they want, as on a luxury cruise. This is supposed to be a ...
    Posted to Green Room by Jevanyn on July 11, 2008
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