A GREAT JUMP TO DISASTER
///////////////////NYRB-in the early 1970s, developed a testable scientific hypothesis aimed at investigating Earth's lifelike properties. Known as the Gaia hypothesis, it states that life on Earth works to keep conditions at the planet's surface favorable to life itself.
///////////////.......Similarly, Lovelock views wind and conventional solar power as largely a waste of time because they are unable to deliver a consistent and sufficiently large supply of electricity, stating that "Europe's massive use of wind as a supplement to baseload electricity will probably be remembered as one of the great follies of the twenty-first century." Only nuclear power, he believes, offers us salvation. Lovelock has held these views for as long as he's been writing about climate change: they have not altered significantly as the crisis has grown, or as wind and solar technologies have improved and "smart grid" solutions for using intermittent sources of supply have developed. They read here as an increasingly ingrained refrain, ever more disconnected from reality.
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/////////////////NIGHTMARE IN SUBURBIA
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///////////////ANTARCTICA HOLDS 70% OF WORLDS FRESH WATER
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/////////////////NYT..........Even if animal rights and animal welfare advocates don’t anthropomorphize mammals and fish and birds, they want us to think about these creatures as sentient beings who feel pain and terror, and they want us to think about the horrible lives and deaths those beings suffer so that gluttonous human beings can stuff their faces with fleshy protein. The more uncompromising are against the eating of any animals. Others promote humane, old-fashioned agriculture, while denouncing the consumption of animals bred on factory farms — those awful assembly-line-like operations that raise chickens, pigs and other animals in unnatural, overcrowded conditions and pose considerable health risks to workers, neighbors and consumers.
//////////////...........Mr. Foer writes that the bioengineering of chickens (to yield more meat in a shorter time), combined with horribly cramped living conditions (eight-tenths of a square foot per bird) leads to “deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems.” He says that farmed fish suffer from “the abundant presence of sea lice, which thrive in the filthy water” of their enclosures and “create open lesions and sometimes eat down to the bones on a fish’s face.” And he contends that cattle are not always efficiently knocked out before being processed at the slaughterhouse, and as a result “animals are bled, skinned, and dismembered while conscious.”
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/////////////I.Q. is strongly related, probably more so than any other single measurable human trait, to many important educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes.”
///////////////////.........Thoreau’s antiurban musings, as I mentioned, looking for the beginning of the great divide between us and nature, between the man-made and the non-man-made, nature and the city.
///////////////Everything secret degenerates,’
//////////////////..........For the Greeks, the hypochondrium was the area just below the ribcage, the site of digestive disorder. This region of the body is where feelings of unease pool, then overflow. It is dangerously proximate to the heart; by the 16th century, the gnawing, mobile, ambiguous pain was associated with melancholia.
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////////////////////..........LRB-Dillon’s essay on Proust we see how diseases can change class: in the 18th century, asthma was an artisan’s affliction, but by the 19th century it was thought of as a disease of the leisured. Hay fever, which seems plebeian nowadays, was also a high-class condition. Once you rise above cold nights and earth floors, the diseases of affluence are waiting for you, and probably a good many well-off allergy sufferers were responding not only to pollens, but to house dust mites breeding in comfort in their carpets, curtains and bedding.
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