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re: What good deed would you do...

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Jacob 01:52 pm UTC 02/16/07
In reply to: re: What good deed would you do... - CultOfByron 10:42 am UTC 02/16/07

About getting less kids, I've always wondered something. How come there are very tough restrictions for adopting children, but any idiot out there can get a child the regular way? Why do you need higher salary and a better living standard in general for adopting than you need for getting kids?

> What we can all do as individuals, obviously is to use our
> cars less or double up, not as easy as all that I grant
> you, but then saving the world never is ;) Use central
> heating ONLY when we need it... Buy local produce to
> encourage this industry as opposed to produce which has to
> be tankered or trucked in from remote parts of the globe.
> Reduce the population!! This one is so goddamn simple I
> can't believe they hadn't spotted it! Have less babies
> people! Cash rewards for people who have less babies,
> penalties for those that do!!
>
> On a (slightly) more serious note, I know this is meant to
> be an age where everyone is politically apathetic, but I'd
> have to say joining or starting a lobbying group for the
> high taxation of corporations who waste energy,
> particularly oil/fuel companies NOT actively involved in
> the pursuit of alternatives to non-sustainables.
>
> It's that word that's really the key to all this -
> sustainable - this western world is all lovely and sparkly
> and shiny and stuff, that's all very well for us, but what
> about our kids? I know, let's give em Mad Max, that'd be
> cool!
>
> >
> > Awesome man, its totally against the norm. So I'd say you
> > were Bad, Hopefully for Goods ;)
> >
> > I have started a group at school, to collect a Global
> > Warming thing. People say, "Oooh There's Nothing I can do"
> > or "Its the future's problem, well the least I can do is
> > at least make it lighter for the future. So
> > I'm trying to encourage people to do things beyond belief.
> > At the same way, not to trying to sound annoying hehe.
> > I'll go Over The Top. Cause yeh, everything happens for a
> > furthering reason, we just need to drop our opinions, some
> > hehe


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